Discover Alice Springs by Hire Car
Amid the deserted expanse of central Australia, Alice Springs sits on a 600m plateau in the MacDonnell Ranges, 400km from Ayers Rock.
Once a small town, “The Alice” has become a boomtown since the 1960s, with more than 300,000 visitors a year making their way to the Red Centre.
Sightseeing in Alice Springs
There are many motels, backpackers and guesthouses clustered around the town centre, not far from Todd Mall, the pedestrianised area with its craft shops, bars and cafes.
The Araluen Arts Centre on Larapinta Drive, with its theatre, gallery and sculpture garden, is one of Alice Springs’ attractions, along with the Strehlow Research Centre, dedicated to the Aranda people.
Discover the Alice Springs area
Many of the interesting destinations in the Alice Springs area are best reached by hire car.
For a day trip, the West MacDonnell Ranges National Park with its gorges and waterholes, called billabongs, such as Ellery Creek, is suitable.
The Rainbow Valley Nature Park is located 70 km south of Alice Springs and enchants with its evening play of colours on the colourful sandstone rocks.
About 50km further, you can marvel at twelve meteorite craters formed by the impact of a meteorite thousands of years ago at Henbury Meteorite Craters Reserve.
The 400km drive from Alice Springs to Uluru, as the red monolith is known in the Pitjantjatjara language, is also easily manageable. A hire car also makes it possible to explore the surrounding area, such as the rock formations of the Olgas, 30km further on.
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