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Early the next morning, since our flight to Cairns was not scheduled until 11:00 am, we went back to Uluru /Ayers Rock to take a walking tour around the base of Uluru with a local Historian/Naturalist, ending the walk to go into the Mutitjulu Waterhole, an unusually shaped water-filled hole at the base of the rock. There we viewed the Aboriginal Rock Art; the rock etchings tell a story through their intricate pictures, revealing the lifestyle of indigenous peoples many years ago, offering an insight into this popular and sacred area of Australia; the nearby caves are still used by the Anangu today for rituals. This is a living cultural landscape. Mutitjulu is so much more than just a hole filled with water. As well as providing a thirst-quenching hotspot for animals and humans for many, it’s also an Indigenous Australian community that is home to almost 300 Aboriginal peoples.
Uluru_2018 10 18_1632
Early the next morning, since our flight to Cairns was not scheduled until 11:00 am, we went back to Uluru /Ayers Rock to take a walking tour around the base of Uluru with a local Historian/Naturalist, ending the walk to go into the Mutitjulu Waterhole, an unusually shaped water-filled hole at the base of the rock. There we viewed the Aboriginal Rock Art; the rock etchings tell a story through their intricate pictures, revealing the lifestyle of indigenous peoples many years ago, offering an insight into this popular and sacred area of Australia; the nearby caves are still used by the Anangu today for rituals. This is a living cultural landscape. Mutitjulu is so much more than just a hole filled with water. As well as providing a thirst-quenching hotspot for animals and humans for many, it’s also an Indigenous Australian community that is home to almost 300 Aboriginal peoples.