I love a sunburned country, a land of sweeping planes, of ragged mountain ranges, of droughts

and flooding rains.

I love her far horizons, I love her dual sea, her beauty and her terror.

The wide brown land for me.

The desert roads of the Northern Territory are as long as they are desolate.

If you stand still, your own heartbeat is the loudest sound you'll hear.

Alice Springs sits almost equal distance between Darwin and Adelaide and is close to the

very centre of Australia.

It is the third largest town in the Northern Territory, with a population of just under

30,000 people.

It welcomes up to 475,000 visitors each year, which is 1,300 new tourists every day.

Tourists are drawn to Alice Springs as it is the closest big town to Uluru, also known

as Aesrock.

Uluru is the single sandstone rock that sits out of the ground, 450 kilometres, 280

miles, southwest of Aesr Springs.

It is a sacred, holy place for the indigenous sub-regional people in the area, and carries

great spiritual meaning.

The rock's most famous feature is the way it appears to change colour at different times

of the day, most notably when it glows red at dawn and sunset.

This did as a world heritage site, Uluru sits at an enormous 348 metres high and has a

girth of 9.4 kilometres or 5.8 miles.

There is 2.5 kilometres or 1.5 miles worth of rock that sits beneath the surface.

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