Uluru and Kata Tjuta - A bird's eye view

Uluru

One of the things that we decided to do here was to take a helicopter flight over the National Park. Unusually, we opted for another early morning, to do the sunrise flight.

When we arrived, there were six people, and we got allocated the little helicopter, while the other four shared the big one. We had chosen the flight that went around Uluru, and then on towards, but not around Kata Tjuta (also known as The Olgas); we would have quite liked to have gone around that too, but it was somewhat more expensive.

Uluru and the Ayers Rock Resort

Safely buckled in, and with our headphones one, we watched the other helicopter take off and waited to do the same. And waited. And waited. Despite repeated tries, the pilot couldn't get the helicopter started, and eventually, the number of attempts was draining the battery too low. Oh dear.

Uluru

They were very apologetic, but of course, with the other helicopter already in use, there wasn't much they could do. And as the sun rose, our sunrise flight was no longer possible today. They did offer us various options: we could cancel and have a refund; reschedule for another day - which luckily was still a possibility for us; or we could wait for the other one to come back, and go up in that, without the sunrise.

Uluru

Having seen the sunrise on Uluru before, we opted to wait, and still go up this day. When the other group got back, they had enjoyed their trip, but hadn't felt that the sunrise added that much to it, so we were happy that this was a good decision.

Uluru

In fact, it all worked out quite nicely because, as the sunrise flight was a bit more expensive, and we'd had to wait to go up, they upgraded our flight to the one that went right around Kata Tjuta. This was great, because having done it, we think that including the full Kata Tjuta flight is well worth it, as you get a very different perspective on the rocks.

Kata Tjuta

Kata Tjuta

Kata Tjuta

Kata Tjuta

Kata Tjuta

Kata Tjuta

Kata Tjuta

Kata Tjuta