No riding for 3 days..

Once in Australia experience - 3 restdays in a row.. But still not much sleeping in.. We left for Uluru (Ayer's Rock) at 5.40 the day before yesterday and had a 5-6 hours drive to get to the quite spectacular rocks in the center of this country. First the so-called toothbrush - with a salt lake opposite - then the Uluru ending with the Olgas. It's all unique geological phenomenas created before anything else we know of - older that any mountains of our knowledge.. It's about some material staying back when the rest just disappeared - eroded away over a period of thousands of millions of years.. No matter how old and exactly how - we are talking some uniquely beautiful formations - especially mesmerizing at the crack of dawn and at sunset. We saw Uluru (which is the aboriginal name of the place that has long been called Ayer's rock) at sunset. Turned into a touristic performance with several tour groups (us inclusive) standing with sparkling wine in their glasses and snacking cheese from a table dressed in white tablecloth. It is not the presentation that any from our group favor - but interesting to be an ordinary tourist just for a couple of days.. And the museum connected to Uluru WAS good to see especially because it tells a lot about the aboriginals way of thinking and believing.. Spent the night in a 4- person dormitory with some girls from the group at a very uncharming artificially created hotel village next to there. And stood up already at 3.30 the day after to go to Kings Canyon to do a 2 1/2 hours hike . Fantastic nature experienced hiking  is much more me! That was just fascinating!
 Came back to Alice end of day yesterday and quite a lot from the group went to "Montes", one of the most popular dinner an go out places here in town to "celebrate" Jodi from Alaska's last evening. That was nice: god vibrations in the group and nice food.
 Today I had a long list of to-does and am now ready for bush camping with at new comfy mattress, larger pillow, a sunhat, a mesh against flies etc.. Had a great lunch down town and chilled for some time before I went back to my cabin to get everything prepared for a 5 days riding bloc of long hot and maybe windy days and primitive life out there..