Alice Springs, Australia Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

Most visitors are surprised by the modern appearance of ALICE SPRINGS . The bright, clear desert air gives the Outback town and its people a charge you don't find in the languid, tropical north. In Alice, the shopping centre is actually in the middle of town and not in some peripheral suburb, and so allusions to Nevil Shute's flyblown A Town Like Alice , or even Robyn Davidson's ockersome observations in Tracks , have long been obsolete. The area has been inhabited for at least thirty thousand years by Aranda Aborigines, who moved between the waterhole of Alice Springs (Tjanerilji) and other reliable … more »