I'm not from that country so your apology should be to the Anungu people, who've always made it clear they don't want people to climb the rock. Surely you must've seen the signs?
Nope. It was long ago in the last half of the twentieth century. There were no signs. 80% of visitors climbed it. We were only warned by park officials to stay away from the base of the rock except where the trail to the top started.
Out of respect to the dreamtime spirits, I would never climb it again.
That's forgiveable, Uluru wasn't handed back to the Anungu until 1985 and until then they had no control over what happened on their own country. It's really more about respect for the living traditional owners than the spirits which you or I may or may not believe in. The track walked by tourists is a sacred men's track going back thousands of years.
You can now walk around the base of the rock on either self-guided or indigenous guided tours, but there are certain areas which are "off limits" to either men or women. The other important issue to remember if you ever go back or for other people reading this is you're not supposed to take even small rocks or stones away with you. It may be superstition, but there's a huge basket at the cultural information centre with rocks returned by people from all over the world who had bad luck after taking the rocks away.
You can also buy t-shirts and bumper stickers saying "I didn't climb Uluru".
Did you go to Kata Tjuta, then called The Olgas? That's an absolutely amazing place too, not too far from Ulura.
When I went to Uluru I had a strong feeling that it's not only the centre of Australia, but the centre of the world .... Hoping to get back there again in this lifetime, it's powerful and awesome (in the true sense of that over and misused word) in a way impossible to describe to anyone who hasn't been there.
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I'm not from that country so your apology should be to the Anungu people, who've always made it clear they don't want people to climb the rock. Surely you must've seen the signs?
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Nope. It was long ago in the last half of the twentieth century. There were no signs. 80% of visitors climbed it. We were only warned by park officials to stay away from the base of the rock except where the trail to the top started.
Out of respect to the dreamtime spirits, I would never climb it again.
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That's forgiveable, Uluru wasn't handed back to the Anungu until 1985 and until then they had no control over what happened on their own country. It's really more about respect for the living traditional owners than the spirits which you or I may or may not believe in. The track walked by tourists is a sacred men's track going back thousands of years.
You can now walk around the base of the rock on either self-guided or indigenous guided tours, but there are certain areas which are "off limits" to either men or women. The other important issue to remember if you ever go back or for other people reading this is you're not supposed to take even small rocks or stones away with you. It may be superstition, but there's a huge basket at the cultural information centre with rocks returned by people from all over the world who had bad luck after taking the rocks away.
You can also buy t-shirts and bumper stickers saying "I didn't climb Uluru".
Did you go to Kata Tjuta, then called The Olgas? That's an absolutely amazing place too, not too far from Ulura.
When I went to Uluru I had a strong feeling that it's not only the centre of Australia, but the centre of the world .... Hoping to get back there again in this lifetime, it's powerful and awesome (in the true sense of that over and misused word) in a way impossible to describe to anyone who hasn't been there.