Friday, 22 July 2011

Kakadu National Park - Part 3

After lunch at Jabiru we headed to Ubirr (Oo-beerr) Art sites which again needed some rock climbing to see them and to get a good view of the surrounding Nadab floodplains. (Kakadu's aboriginal rock art (gunbim) represents one of the longest historical records of any group of people in the world.)  I climbed to the first large flat area of rock but that was high enough above the ground for me so I sat and waited while David climbed to the top (250m up rocks from the ground to the top) with some of  a free guided tour group that we had tacked on behind.    The view was pretty amazing from where I was and David said it wasn't much different from the top.

Interesting - why do they let people get to the middle of Kakadu before telling them where they should drive!!!


The start of the climb up the rock face 

View from the first big flat area

Aboriginal art - Ubirr

View from the top

Just one of the small rocks we walked past on the climb
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  1. Anna23 July 2011 at 04:54

    Looks like an interesting spot!

    Re the "drive on left" sign... in our experience, it is much easier to accidentally drive on the incorrect side of the road when there isn't any/much other traffic around to remind you of the correct side (i.e. by driving straight at you, head-on... that usually does the trick!). I'm guessing that applies to Kakadu! Thus tourists would likely need the reminder out there much more than they'd need it when they first drive out of the capital cities!

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