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When
you travel, you may wake up sometimes and have
forgotten where you are for a moment. This
morning, all of us had this strange feeling.
Is it a coincidence or due to this place,
mysterious and out of time!?
Aleko
gets up at 6.00 am to make his daily
translations, Vale at 7.00 for an animated
Chat with the Virtual People... were you
there? Then, we all have a breakfast together:
today seems full of a particular energy and
we're all in an excellent mood.
We
drive to Uluru for a last greeting to the
Great Monolith. We take some time to observe
Kata Tjuta (The Olgas) in the distance,
another place of ecological and cultural
importance of the country. Kata Tjuta is a
collection of rounded rocks and means 'many
heads'. It's less known, but equally
impressive.
This
cultural places tend to show that the
Aboriginal People have been living in
Australia for at least 40 000 years. It's our
duty to contribute to their protection,
respecting and promoting their differences.
'Back
on the road'. We stop several times pretending
to make some pictures and play on the dunes.
But it's as if we didn't want to leave this
place. Then, for fun, the Car@van forgets Theo
on the road, making him run after us for at
least one kilometer under the burning sun.
Today's
menu: Spaces, Direction, Movement and Rhythm.
Crisscrossing the huge deserts of red sand and
dry bushes towards North East, the Car@van
hits the road listening dance music of the
80's.
We
enter at last into the Watarrka National Park
and stop at Kings Canyon, also called Garden
of Eden. The beautiful walls of the canyon are
over 100m high. On the shadowed path with
hundred-years-old trees, we notice some kind
of signs, symbols engraved on the rocks or
pieces of wood positioned in a strange way.
They seem like Aborigines symbols indicating
the way for a sacred and secret place. But, we
don't try to go and find it... we just jump
into a spring of black and cold water!
We
leave the sacred Canyon at the end of the
afternoon looking for another zone to
contaminate, with another spirit...
Priscilla's! Read the Anecdotes section
and watch the video.
On
a red and dusty road for hundred kilometers,
the Sun illuminates a huge Moon, as the night
slowly falls. We pass rabbits, owls, eagles
and avoid to run over a panicked veal, lost in
the dark.
Back
in Alice, we feel like to be home again.
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