I think that staying at Uluru - Ktata Jtuta National Park was great. We didn't exactly stay at the rock. We stayed in a resort near the rock in the middle of nowhere. The closet town is almost 500 km away, and the closet city is almost 1500 km away. This is almost the middle of Australia. On the other hand, the flies and heat were unbearable. They sell special nets at the resort to go over your heads, but we had already bought some in Perth. We wanted to nets because of the flies that fly all over our eyelashes and faces to get salt and moisture. They even get inside your net when you reach inside to itch a spot or lick a sucker and sometimes they even get in your eyes. They do not bite though. The heat was intense, 123 degrees fahrenheit (about 49 celsius). Scientists think that Uluru is part of a much larger rock underground. They think the whole thing was underground at one time and the ground around it got eroded away by rain and wind. Now, the part that we see sticks out of the ground. Uluru is very large and Ktata Tjuta (which means "many heads" in the Anangu language - the native people of the area.
There is a lot more to tell, so I will do another entry.
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