Around the famous and fabled rock Ayers Rock, Uluru also known as, to visit, rent is best a car, for example in Alice Springs or Yulara, the nearest major towns and cities. A reservation is recommended advance over the Internet, because the car then available on arrival for you.
An all-wheel-powered SUV, you can use to navigate easily also not good ways is best suited for the Australian outback. Rent you can get a rental car in Yulara at the lessor Hertz, in Alice Springs there a wider range of car hire stations such as Alamo, Avis and Europcar.
The name Uluru derives from the language of the natives of Australia, the aborigines, and means "Seat of the ancestors". The name Ayers Rock is on William Gosse based, named the sandstone for the South Australian Prime Minister in 1873. For about 20 000 years, the Anangu living in the area of the Uluru. Parts of today's National Park in 1920 became a sanctuary for indigenous Australians, later in 1985 the whole Park was returned to the natives, who are responsible for the maintenance and preservation of the area since then. in 1995, the two Inselberge of Ayers Rock and mount Olga received your original name again. The Uluru is located in the Uluru Kata Tjuta National Park in the northern territory of Australia and belongs with his neighbour, the Kata Tjuta, to the UNESCO-World nature and world heritage site. Both from Inselberge existing moulding, are founded about 800 million years ago. The Aboriginal people Revere above all the reservoirs situated behind the Uluru, which are regarded as sacred. For those who want to visit the extraordinary natural monument, can do easily with a rental car during his tour of Australia.
To the Uluru Entwine many dream legends of indigenous people be used inter alia to explain irregularities in appearance of rock. This explains also the Holiness of certain places. Even today, the mountain is revered as sacred by the aborigines. The visitor should know, that he not in the climb of the mountain prevented is, however, the indigenous people see reluctant to these activities.
Caution should be also, that the rise in the heat of the summer is very demanding, very quickly change the weather conditions can and the descent in wet conditions can be very dangerous, prove what several deaths and serious accidents in the course of time. In the advance of visitors should ask sichdarüber where photos cannot be made because this make some is forbidden and heavy fines can result in return to negotiating. The most beautiful times of the day to visit are Sunrise and sunset.