The controller nicely agreed to give us a tower tour, which was awesome: In Alice Springs, we were at the doubletree hote, which was nice, even if kind of out of the way from downtown: After arriving, we went to check out the reptile centre, and we got lucky, it was the day they fed snakes:
the thorny devil is very cool (albeit small)
I think the mice lose out in that display...
an idea of scale, Australia is bigger than Europe
patients can be treated in the plane
this one looks like a cartoon character from ice age :)
we were not allowed to proceed further, the local aborigines say it's sacred land
I found a friendly chicken walking around :)
rat wallaby with a joey, very cute.
the echidnas were curious and came to our feet. One came to sniff my hand with its little wet nose