Lift up your heads

Fifty km west of Uluru is the equally dramatic rock formation known nowadays as Kata Tjuta. The aboriginal name means many heads. We spent most of the day there today.

The main image is a panorama from the eastern side as we drove in from Uluru. The first extra is of the external ‘walls’ from the west, and the second extra is of the internal valley, from the first lookout on the Valley of the Winds walk.

The first European explorer to sight Kata Tjuta was Ernest Giles in 1872. He named the highest peak ‘Mt Olga’ after the third daughter of Tsar Nicholas I of Russia who was the wife of the German King of Württemberg. The reason is explained here.