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Tjuta National Park is an area which is well known for
the native culture. You can have a wonderful experience
about the native culture it you visit Kata Tjuta National
Park. In native Australian Language Kata Tjuta means
"many heads". This place is adorned with bottomless
ravines and amazing valleys. The place is enrolled as
a World Heritage site because of its natural as well
as ancient cultural splendor. The natives are called
as Anangus by the local people.
According to the local myth Anangus have direct connection
with the ancestors of Australia. The aboriginals have
taken all the loads in maintaining the old heritage
of the Kata Tjuta National Park. This park acquires
almost 132 hectares of land area and packed with number
of rare plants and animals.
In Kata Tjuta National Park you can visit two well
known sites, one is The Uluru and the other is Kata
Tjuta or the Olgas. The Uluru is the biggest stone in
the world. This large rock is situated amidst the desert
of Kata Tjuta and it is 348 meters high. This huge monolith
is in sandstone. This rock has a unique feature it changes
color while there is sun set and sun rise in Kata Tjuta
National Park. The natives of the Kata Tjuta National
Park believe that this is an auspicious stone. Around
this stone there is a cultural center where you can
find Maruku arts and crafts shop.
About 32 kilometres to the west of Uluru lie the 36 steep-sided domes of Kata Tjuta. The domes cover an area of 3500 hectares with Mount Olga, the highest feature, rising to a height of 500 metres. This area is sacred under Anangu men's law and, as such, detailed knowledge of it is restricted.
The first European to sight Uluru was the explorer William Gosse in 1873 who named it Ayers Rock.
The year before, Ernest Giles had named Kata Tjuta the Olgas, after Queen Olga of Wertemberg.
Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park was inscribed on the World Heritage List in two stages, initially for its outstanding universal natural values in 1987 and then for its outstanding universal cultural values in 1994.
The Olgas in Kata Tjuta National Park is a wonderful
example of natural phenomena. There are 36 small rocks
which are created by erosion. At first it was a rock
which was bigger than Uluru. You can be fascinated in
walking along the paths of Olgas Valley.
How to get there
By air: Qantas airline arranges several trips to Yulara's
Connellan Airport from Sydney, Melbourne, and Cairns.
By bus: there is a bus service called Greyhound Australia
which arranges trip to Kata Tjuta National Park from
Alice Springs.
By Car: there are number of car services to reach
Kata Tjuta.
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