My final stop before Uluru was at King's canyon. I stopped the night before at King's Creek resort. Diesel was $2.47 a litre and there was a surcharge if you paid by credit card.....they didn't miss a trick. The camping facilities were good and I had a camp kitchen to myself. The free internet was the slowest I have ever experienced. There was a pet donkey and baby camel playing in the pen near the shop. A number of buses stopped while I was there.
I started early in the morning for King's Canyon because it does get very hot and over a certain temperature they stop people beginning the walk. The start of the 6km walk is up Heartbreak Hill, sometimes called Heart-attack Hill. It was steep but it was good to get the worst part over with at the beginning. From the top the views were magnificent. You could walk around the edge of the top of the canyon. The floor was 100 metres below.
Part of the way around there was a track down to the Garden of Eden, a waterhole near the end of the canyon. Then the trail wound around the top to the other side of the canyon. It passed through a maze of sandstone domes. There were a surprising number of tourists and bus tours visiting the canyon. I spoke to a number of them from different countries. Halfway down the other side there was also a team of workers building a stone path up the canyon. It was very hot and their cement and water was brought in by helicopter.
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| Views from the end of the canyon |
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| Views from the top |
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| The canyon walls from the other side of the canyon. |
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| Tourists winding down through the sandstone domes |
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| Sandstone domes |
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| The workers half-way down the canyon |
