Northern Territory Food & Travel Guide
The Northern Territory is one of those places where the scale changes everything: heat, red earth, long horizons and food that often comes with a story before it reaches the plate. Around Uluru and Alice Springs, I found bush foods, campfire dinners, Indigenous art, desert hotels and restaurants that made the Red Centre feel less like a postcard and more like a place you taste, listen to and remember.
The 3.5 hour flight is drawing to a close and I fidget in my seat. The man sitting at the window seat who I've exchanged pleasantries and amicable nods with suddenly taps me on my arm and points out the window. Just at that moment, amongst the ochre sands, Uluru or Ayers Rock passes under the plane which seems to hover. I involuntarily gape and say "Oh my god! That's Uluru!" I've seen Uluru countless times in photographs but nothing is quite like getting right close to it. As if your hands could reach out of the plane and touch, like the clouds or stars that seem just out of reach.
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