After "careful" consideration we decided to pack a tent, get enough food and water and hit the road to Kakadu NP. The park is about 3 hours to the east at the border to Arnhem Land. Passing 2 meter high cathedral termite mounds, floodplains, bushlands, rainforests and crocodile infested rivers we drove all the way to Ubirr, the northern part of the East Alligator region. It is a place of magnificent sandstone formations and rainforests. With aboriginal rock art as old as 15,000 years! Some of the paintings became one with the rock they are painted on. Kinda like petrified wood. After a beautiful sunset at the top of the rock overlooking the Nadab floodplains with Kakadus flying through the rainforest behind us, we hiked back to set up our tent for the night. As it happens the only restaurant/store around serves excellent Thai food. After dinner we fell asleep exhausted, despite the incredible night sky and the strange and somewhat eerie sounds around us.
Nach kurzer Ueberlegung beschlossen wir Zelt, Essen und Wasser einzupacken und uns auf den Weg zum Kakadu Nationalpark zu machen
. Der Park liegt etwa 3 Stunden oestlich an der Grenze zum Arnhem Land. Unterwegs kamen wir vorbei an 2m hohen Termitenhuegeln, Auen, Buschlands, Regenwaeldern und Krokodil-bewohnten Fluessen. Bis wir schliesslich in Ubirr, dem noerdlichen Teil der East Alligator Region, ankamen. Ein Ort voll beeindruckender Sandsteinformationen und Regenwaeldern. Mit Wandbemalungen der Aboriginees die zum Teil 15000 Jahre alt sind! Manche Bilder sind so alt, dass sich die Farbe mit dem Sandstein verbunden hat. Aehnlich wie bei Versteinerungen. Nach einem wunderschoenen Sonnenuntergang hoch oben auf dem Felsen, von wo aus man die Nadab Auen ueberblicken kann und hunderte von Kakadus vorbeifliegen, wanderten wir zurrueck um unser Zelt fuer die Nacht aufzuschlagen. Wie es der Zufall will serviert das einzige Restaurant/Geschaeft im Umkreis richtig gutes Thai Food. Nach dem Abendessen fielen wir erschoepft in unsere Kojen, trotz des sternenuebersaeten Nachthimmels und den fremden irgendwie unheimlichen Geraeuschen um uns herum.
Exploring the Northern Territory • Kakadu NP
Saturday, September 08, 2012
Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory, Australia
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