Backpacking Australia: Uluru

Last time Enrico and Reiko set off in canoes up the Katherine Gorge. This time they find out it's not as easy as their guide had told them. Anita got her dream job minding horses, and now she has her own car to go travelling with her dog Chooka. Rebecca is steeling herself for the withdrawal from Tim Tam Biscuits, and prepares to immerse herself in the bush for a whole week, on this no-frills guided tour through Central Australia - first stop is Uluru. Like most tourists, she's come here in search of an authentic experience of the Australian wilderness. And for her, if romance happens to come with the package, for example with Bones, the tour guide, well, that would be okay, too. And if nothing else, at least one can come away with a good taste of that emptiness and isolation that defines the remote centre of Australia.