On Day 13 I decided that I wanted to travel to Undara National park, a 3 hour drive away. About 20 miles into our trip, the single lane each way "highway" suddenly turned into just a single lane!! The idea is that you fly down the road at about 60 mph, and when you see a lorry coming towards you, also at 60 mph, you both move across to the dirt track on either side, and then carry on as normal!! The skill of driving like this is to keep your speed up when you are on the dirt track as if it was tarmac!! Off road at 60mph!! Woo hooo!!
Having arrived at the Undara National Park I was terribly dissapointed to find out that the tour of the underground lava tubes (caves) was fully booked up for the day :( We soon recovered and decided that we would go for a trek in the Australian Bush instead - in the 30C temperatures.
Ang and I got a map and logged in at the tourist information (just incase we got lost and never returned), and then headed off up the mini-hills which we later found out were ex-volcanoes. From the top of the vantage points we could some of the old volcanic cones in the distance (above) and also some of the collapsed caves.
Although we weren't out for more than 3 hours - it was so tiring!! We'd run out of water by the time we'd got back to the carpark.
On the way back to our cottage, we stopped to take in the sights. The picture above shows one of the thousands of giant turmite mounds that we saw. They were just everywhere!
The picture below, is bizarely, one of my favourite photos from the trip. I am not sure why - it just is. Anyway, it is a bunch of cows on a windfarm.
We also stopped at a scenic viewpoint where we were able to see the amazing rolling hills and mountains in the distance. This picture really doesn't capture the scene - the light was amazing as the shadows were cast in the rolling mounds.
Just before we got back to our cottage, Ang suggested that we attempted a waterfall tour that would normally take half a day - in 45 mins!! The sun was starting to set, so we didn't have much time and raced from fall to fall.
The waterfall above was my favourite - but it was a shame that I didn't catch it in the sun. Same with the photo below, it would have been nice to see this in some sunlight. It was still great that we managed to see all 3 waterfalls - and well worth the 45 min race!
This was the last pic of the day - a lovely sunset spoilt by an electricity pylon!! Oh well, can't have everything!! It was a very busy day - but thoroughly enjoyable :)
As always - this is just a summary of the day - I will be putting up more pictures and more details in the future on my main website. Check back here for more details in the future.
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