Travelog Australia 2015: Alice Spring town, NT

Date: June 30th, 2015

Alice Spring town is located 5km away and our 1st stop was the John McDouall Stuart memorial. 

"John McDouall Stuart was a Scottish explorer and one of the most accomplished of all Australia's inland explorers. Stuart led the first successful expedition to traverse the Australian mainland from south to north and return, through the centre of the continent. 

The explorations of Stuart eventually resulted in the 1863 annexation of a huge area of country to the 
Government of South Australia. This area became known as the Northern Territory. In 1911 the Commonwealth of Australia assumed responsibility for that area. In 1871-72 the Australian Overland Telegraph Line was constructed along Stuart's route. The principal road from Port Augusta to Darwin was also established essentially on his route and is now known as the Stuart Highway in his honour."- Wikipedia.

Next was the Desert Park. We only went into the reception hall which told a story of the original people of the land. The park was huge and divided into few sections according to the desert type. Being cheapos and not-time permitted, we didnt go into the park.

Nearby in the area is John Flynn's Grave. John Flynn was sent by the Church to check on the needs of the busmn and women living in NT. He founded the 1st radio transmitter that could send/receive message for over 500km. This, finally begin the work of medicine and radio, now known as the Flying Doctor Service. OMG! So ironic that we actually use this service after the next couple of days....

Our final stop in Alice Spring is Kmart!! hahahahaha! I cant remember the real reason we wanted to have a quick stop there, but we ended up with a spree. Well, it's not that we shop a lot, but we spent an hour there buying less than 5 items LOL. We also had an incident here where Nad rammed the campervans' top at the parking exit. There was a pole marking the maximum height and none of us realized that our top was higher huhu. Luckily, it was on the top and we can still drive thru with a loud screeching -_-' 

Before we left, full tank for the gas for our 445km journey to Ayer Rocks.

p/s: saw this Vegemite Cadbury there. I cant imagine how it tasted like. Vegemite smell itself was stomach churning for me.