Yulara, Northern Territory

Yulara, internationally best known as Ayers Rock Resort, is a tourist settlement in the Northern Territory of Australia with about 1,000 inhabitants. It was created in 1984 as a backbone of the tourist supply for the access to the World Heritage Uluru (20 km) and Kata Tjuta (50 km) and has an airport.

After 20 years, the originally tailored to individual visitors only supply station on five resorts in different categories, grown a campsite, shops and restaurants that receives year-round vacation packages tour groups from many countries, particularly European. A visitor center with advice and freely accessible Internet terminals informed individually and bookable possible only in the context of an organization tours, including with Aboriginal rangers to the land of Anangu.

The population is largely made ​​up of tourist season workers; few residents live here permanently. To members of the Aboriginal people of the tribe of the Anangu no alcohol is sold at the request of the local Anangu community.

Although the city is only a few hours and in some cases to achieve with direct connections today by plane from Alice Springs, Sydney, Melbourne, Cairns and Perth, select individual traveler and package holiday companies often still the now comfortably on an asphalt road with car and coach has become, four - to five-hour overland journey through the outback of the Red Centre, starting from the Alice Springs 400 km away.

For also in the regular car possible without all-wheel drive directions from Port Augusta via the Stuart Highway travelers need to bring several days.