Because she heard Yunluo and An Qingjue speaking Chinese, she thought they were speaking Japanese. Yunluo proudly told her that they were from China. She was a little surprised. Yunluo asked her where she was from. She said she moved to Melbourne from Quebec, Canada because her husband worked here.

Yunluo told her that when she went to Canada, she had been to Quebec. In April, the snow in Quebec City was still very heavy. She told Yunluo that in Quebec, it might snow even in June, unlike Australia, where the climate is much better.

Because I was facing the child, I couldn't use the flash. I took it at night, so the photo is a little blurry:

The pick-up price from Alice Springs to Desert Park is written on the Desert Park website: orinn. The price they give to Yunluo is: AUD 40p for adults and p for children, so this pick-up does not need to be booked online.

Just book it at the local hotel, and the hotel doesn't need Yunluo to pay them. She helped Yunluo change 105.50 Australian dollars in change, and Yunluo just needs to pay the driver directly. (The family package they pick up is for 1 adult with 2 children.

Or 2 adults + 4 children, because the pick-up and drop-off also includes tickets, and the park's family ticket policy is 1 adult + 2 children or 2 adults + 4 children, so the family ticket package for pick-up and drop-off also calculates the number of people in this way.)

Round trip transfer from Alice Springs to Alice Springs Desert Park: The pick-up time published on their website is inaccurate. You need to contact the hotel after arriving at the local area, and the time arranged at that time is the accurate pick-up time.

At the entrance of Alice Springs Desert Park, there are park introductions and maps in Chinese (of course there are also English ones), and it is recommended to take a copy. There is also an English self-guided tour guide, which can be used to visit all the way. When you reach the corresponding guide point, you can press the corresponding button on the guide to listen to the explanation.

In addition to the fixed things to visit in Alice Springs Desert Park, there are also some activities and performances. The most unmissable one is the 20-30 minute naturetheatrepresentation (bird training performance in the natural open-air theater) held at 10 a.m. and 3:30 p.m.

There is an indoor theater on the left side of the entrance gate of Alice Springs Desert Park. Here you can enjoy a 20-minute long big-screen movie called "Ovie". After the movie is over, the screen will rise up and the audience can directly see the beautiful natural scenery of the park behind the screen!

So if you have time, you must go and see it. The show time today is: 8:00, 9:00, 10:15, 11:00, 12:00. 1:00, 2:00, 3:00, 4:00, 5:00. Recommended visit time for Desert Park:

Visiting time: When Yunluo consulted the hotel, the hotel manager Sarah Bedell told Yunluo that generally only 2 hours would be enough. Later, when Yunluo actually went there, he saw the introduction inside the park, which said that 2 hours was the minimum time and it could only be used for a quick visit and a taste of the desert park.

And you will definitely miss some must-see things - such as the nocturnal animal house, the raptor show in the natural open-air theater, the "heart-changing" movie in the big theater, and the habitat of desert animals - 2 hours. It is impossible to see all of them, although the park is not actually very large. From the westernmost to the easternmost.

It only takes about 20 minutes to walk, but there is a lot of content along the way. If you are interested in Australian desert flora and fauna, you will find that 2 hours is not enough. If you want to take a closer look, it will take at least 3 hours, but you can only take a quick look in 3 hours.

Therefore, the ideal visiting time is 4 hours, and as expected, Yunluo and An Qingju actually walked down. It really takes at least 4 hours (Yunluo and An Qingju's visiting time is 12:00 noon-4:00 pm), only in this way can Yunluo and An Qingju carefully appreciate and understand those desert plants and animals, and watch some basic performances in the park.

People in Alice Springs are rather lazy. The bus that was booked at 11:30 to pick up Yunluo and An Qingjue to go to the Desert Park and the bus that was booked at 16:30 to pick up Yunluo and An Qingjue from the hotel to the train station were both late. In particular, the bus that was booked at 16:30 to pick up Yunluo and An Qingjue to go to the train station did not arrive until 16:40.

I called and they said they had forgotten about it. Fortunately, Alice Springs is a small city, so they arranged a taxi in 5 or 6 minutes. It arrived at the train station just before 17:00, and I was almost late. So, when you book a car in Alice Springs, don't think that everything will be fine after you book it. You must keep an eye on it.

Located 314 kilometres south of Darwin, it is a regional centre that includes large cattle ranches, orchards and national parks. Located at the crossroads of the Topend District, Upper Katherine is the third largest centre in the Territory and an ideal starting point for visiting local attractions.

Visitors can choose to take a boat trip through the magnificent gorge, paddle a canoe or take a helicopter tour to see the nearby Katherine Gorge; they can also go to Manyallaluk to share culture with the Aboriginal people.

At this station, the train provides 3 travel options:

The 1.16 Australian dollar train-Katherine Visitor Information Center round-trip shuttle service gives visitors the opportunity to explore this charming Australian outback town on their own;

2.30 Australian dollars for the train - round trip transfer to Katherine Gorge Visitor Center + meal service at the Visitor Center + 1 hour hike to the Baruwei Observation Deck, where you can enjoy the spectacular and beautiful scenery of Katherine Gorge.

The price for a cruise on the Katherine Gorge for 3,108 Australian dollars is also included in the price, which includes a simple lunch with champagne and other frozen soft drinks on the platform facing the gorge outside the Katherine Gorge Visitor Center. This is very worthwhile.

Because the Katherine Gorge cruise cost 108 Australian dollars and there was no discount even for children, Yunluo hesitated for a long time when paying last night. Finally, under the strong suggestion of the conductor, she finally decided to join this cruise. It turned out that this decision was really correct. The Australians Yunluo met were all very friendly.

They are very honest. They will not give exaggerated reviews to the products in order to induce customers to buy their products. They always tell Yunluo honestly what the product is like. After Yunluo got on the cruise ship, he felt that the scenery here was so beautiful that it could only be enjoyed by taking a cruise ship.

You can only truly appreciate the beauty of the canyon from the observation deck at the top of the canyon. Did you notice the old man sitting on the bow, wearing a top hat and a formal suit? Although he looks old from the front, he still dressed formally for this tour.

Most of the people on this train are retired elderly people. They all sit in at least the gold service class, unlike Yunluo and An Qingju, who only sit in the cheap red service car (although the red service is already very luxurious). During the tour of Katherine Gorge, Yunluo found that Yunluo and An Qingju seemed to be the only Asian tourists.

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

Back at the landing point, I took another photo of the tourist map of Katherine Gorge. This baruweiwalk map shows how to follow this trail to the top of the cliff to enjoy the Katherine Gorge, which is a tourist program that you can enjoy for 30 Australian dollars.

Fortunately, Yunluo and An Qingju chose to travel by boat this time. Only after experiencing it personally did they realize how correct the choice of taking a boat was:

Because there is only one train track north of Katherine, in order to allow trains from the north to pass, Yunluo and An Qingju's train not only did not continue to the north, but retreated to the south for a distance, and then stopped for a long time before continuing to the north to Darwin. The train left Katherine, and here was already a tropical landscape:

At 7 o'clock, Yunluo and An Qingju finally arrived in Darwin: because they had to give way in Katherine, Yunluo and An Qingju were half an hour late. This is the train station in Darwin:

In this small train station (compared to the size of China's train stations), Yunluo and An Qingjue would wait on the platform for the porter to unload the luggage from the train, and then Yunluo would go to claim the luggage himself. At the same time, Yunluo and An Qingjue could get free mosquito repellent at the train station.

Everyone sprayed a little on the exposed skin to prevent mosquito bites. (In fact, Yunluo later discovered that at least when Yunluo and An Qingjue went traveling (it was winter, or the dry season), there were no mosquitoes to bite Yunluo and An Qingjue.)

The station is very small. The dark gate in the middle of the photo is the exit gate of the train station. There are no security personnel and you can enter and exit freely! (To be continued...)