Small footprints big adventures

Pin this post for later: The best time to travel to Uluru We visited at the start of the low season, and it was perfect. We’ve found that travelling with kids requires more time to settle in and adjust to new surroundings, and more time completing daily tasks that are needed for smooth family life! We originally booked for six nights and then extended for nine, and then another extra night as our kids were having so much fun with some new friends they made, we didn’t want to leave! Within Ayer’s Rock Resort there are excellent free daily activities for anyone to attend, including dances, a theatre performance by Mani-Mani Indigenous Cultural Theatre Company, a guided garden walk, cultural talks and bush tucker tastings, a museum and ecology tour, and astronomy sessions.

It is just about in the middle of the whole road trip, and being the largest town along the way with several accommodation options to choose from, it’s a sensible place to stop if you have limited time to drive to Uluru. The distance from Adelaide to Coober Pedy is 846km, which takes almost nine hours, and the distance from Coober Pedy to Uluru is 755km, another eight hour drive. This small park within Coober Pedy had much newer facilities than Riba’s, and a great camp kitchen. It is still a 3 hour drive from Erldunda to the Yulara township (closest accommodation to Uluru), and another half an hour again to reach Uluru, or an hour to reach Kata Tjuta.

We are well-travelled and understand that the rarity of fair features in many places can create a lot of attention for blonde-haired or blue-eyed people. So fair features are less common than darker colours, but blonde hair isn’t all that rare in childhood especially, and blue eyes are not very rare either. This theory may be the reason why many people have clear biases today, but it doesn’t explain why some people of non-European descent also show preferences towards fair features. The tendency of people to associate blonde features with youth feeds into this: sweet blonde children and fair golden maidens are juxtaposed with brunette bullies and dark, mysterious villains.

Go Jetters TV show by CBeebies In-house Production and BBC Worldwide Picture and activity books available from the Book Depository (free shipping worldwide) DVD’s of the series available on Amazon: The whole series and individual books available from the Book Depository (free shipping worldwide) Greetings from Somewhere is a fabulous series chronicling twins Ella and Ethan on adventures through nine different countries. The Mr Chicken series Books by Leigh Hobbs Hardback books available from the Book Depository (free shipping worldwide) The Mr Chicken books are also available digitally from eBooks.com: One Day: Around the World in 24 Hours Hardback book by Suma Din Available from the Book Depository (free shipping worldwide) Dante was fascinated with this book, which follows the stories of 15 children and their families from 15 countries as they go about a typical day or night.