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Australia's Camel Trail | Amar Grover | Australia, Northern Territories, Alice Springs

More surprising, even surreal, is the milieu: I am clinging to a camel in the middle of deepest, reddest Australia

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Australian Outback | Steve Knipp | Australia, Northern Territories, Alice Springs

There are no wake up calls at the Ross River ranch in the heart of the great Australian outback. The wild red parrots and silver crested cockatoos take care of that

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Driving the Red Centre | John Borthwick | Australia, Northern Territories, Alice Springs

The highway from Alice Springs to Ayers Rock is no longer the infamous track of yore, but its perspectives are still a humbling reminder of being a mere dot amid all this space, all this time

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Staying with Aboriginals | Mark McCrum | Australia, Northern Territories, Alice Springs

Trampled over and anthropologized till they’re blue in the face, most Aboriginals have little time for whites who want to know how ‘they really think and feel’

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Waiting For Emily | Mark McCrum | Australia, Northern Territories, Alice Springs

Half a day’s drive outside Alice Springs, I had managed to secure an invite to stay with Bill Partridge, a station-owner who now made more money out of Aboriginal Art than he did out of cattle. He was lucky enough to have, living on an Aboriginal settlement adjacent to his land, the most famous Aboriginal painter of them all, Emily Kame Kngwarreye. I had been waiting for almost a week for her to turn up and start work on one of the famous ‘dot paintings’, and it had begun to look as if she might never show at all...

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