Description: Arriving at Kings Canyon Resort, we found the restaurant to be quite expensive and walked on the road to a small supermarket/café/filling station. The café was closed, so we bought provisions and went back to our room for another early night in preparation for an early start.
This start was at 5am, ready to go at 5:40am to Kings Canyon. Apparently an early start is advisable due to the intense heat.
On arrival we had a choice of two walks. The one requiring a good level of fitness was along the rim of the canyon to the Lost City and Garden of Eden, and the other easier walk was along the canyon floor.
We opted for the latter and found it a bit boring. We were escorted by our coach driver Gordon and saw ghost gum trees while he told us about flash floods he'd been caught in. He was very knowledgeable, but we wished we'd done the rim walk.
Back at the hotel, there was time to relax on the balcony over breakfast before joining the coach again for the trip to Alice Springs. The road to Alice was so straight, with about three vehicles on it the whole way. Apart from seeing a sand lizard walking across the road and about 30 dead kangaroos at the roadside, the most interesting event of the journey to Alice was seeing a dingo eating a recently killed kangaroo on the outskirts of Alice.
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