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Sat Sep 15 01 / 7:08 AM

I have been travelling for one week, but that doesn't seem right; I feel so seasoned, and have spent so much money ...

I am back on the bus again after a three day tour of Australia's red heart. It took two days to get in here, and it will take two more to get out the top end. It's hot here, and it really is red everywhere, but it is dry instead of moist. We travel in cool comfort, but the land we travel through is long, shadeless, and always empty. Everyone has stopped looking for kangaroos.

All of us on this bus, and all of them on the other buses we meet, have travelled here for one purpose: to see Uluru, Ayer's Rock, the largest monolith in the world. It is not to see the 3000 dollar a night resort, or the many-headed Olgas stone formation, or the lost city in Kings Canyon; it is all Uluru we have come so far and long for.

Coming to Uluru is an accomplishment of many parts, because it must be one of the ends of the Earth. The journey only adds to its quality. The tour is organized to let you see Uluru at sunset, and see it at sunrise, to let you walk around it and walk up it. It is a big red rock in the middle of 36 hours of only flat land, and nobody is disappointed.

Uluru is such a big spectacle that it is bigger than even itself. It is an experience you can't take your eyes off of. It makes you think of ancient times and a world without humans, and at the same time your own existence and how it has brought you to this monolith like that was the plan all along.

Uluru calls to you. You may not realize it until you are close to it, but when it fills your vision you realize it is what you were looking for. Though everyone has their own revelations, to me Uluru seemed alive. The big mounded round of rock had a presence almost like breathing, almost like a sleeping giant.

Lying alone in the middle of almost nowhere, Uluru seems to be waiting for something. But the effect is so great, perhaps everybody thinks it is waiting for them.

I climbed the back of the waiting beast and looked around at the country. But the view from the top was disappointing, because I was standing on top of the only thing worth looking at.

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Lisa Higgs

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latest archive about email links yearbook japan photoblog wish list	Sat Sep 15 01 / 7:08 AM I have been travelling for one week, but that doesn't seem right; I feel so seasoned, and have spent so much money ... I am back on the bus again after a three day tour of Australia's red heart. It took two days to get in here, and it will take two more to get out the top end. It's hot here, and it really is red everywhere, but it is dry instead of moist. We travel in cool comfort, but the land we travel through is long, shadeless, and always empty. Everyone has stopped looking for kangaroos. All of us on this bus, and all of them on the other buses we meet, have travelled here for one purpose: to see Uluru, Ayer's Rock, the largest monolith in the world. It is not to see the 3000 dollar a night resort, or the many-headed Olgas stone formation, or the lost city in Kings Canyon; it is all Uluru we have come so far and long for. Coming to Uluru is an accomplishment of many parts, because it must be one of the ends of the Earth. The journey only adds to its quality. The tour is organized to let you see Uluru at sunset, and see it at sunrise, to let you walk around it and walk up it. It is a big red rock in the middle of 36 hours of only flat land, and nobody is disappointed. Uluru is such a big spectacle that it is bigger than even itself. It is an experience you can't take your eyes off of. It makes you think of ancient times and a world without humans, and at the same time your own existence and how it has brought you to this monolith like that was the plan all along. Uluru calls to you. You may not realize it until you are close to it, but when it fills your vision you realize it is what you were looking for. Though everyone has their own revelations, to me Uluru seemed alive. The big mounded round of rock had a presence almost like breathing, almost like a sleeping giant. Lying alone in the middle of almost nowhere, Uluru seems to be waiting for something. But the effect is so great, perhaps everybody thinks it is waiting for them. I climbed the back of the waiting beast and looked around at the country. But the view from the top was disappointing, because I was standing on top of the only thing worth looking at.
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Lisa Higgs
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