Purnululu (Bungle Bungles) National Park
The Bungle Bungles are an old mountain range containing sandstone. Over the years the weather has formed the range into what we can see today – several beehive-shaped domes. The domes even have different colouring – an orange band and a darker band. The darker bands indicate the presence of cyanobacterie which protects the stone from erosion.
It was not very hard to reach the Bungle Bungles as most was on a sealed highway (but with some one-lane bridges) just the last 50km were on a gravel road… We arrived in the afternoon so we couldn’t do any walks but watched the sunset and the glowing of the domes.
Our first walk was the domes walk in the southern part of the park. The domes walk
just goes around several domes, we had a good look at them and could see the different bands in them. We connected this walk with the Cathedral Gorge. To enter the Cathedral Gorge we had to walk trough a dried creek bed, which showed several pot-holes and then we entered the big amphitheatre. The gorge opened itself to form this massive round amphitheatre. I guess the acoustic must be great for a concert. 
We drove to the other side of the park and walked
into the Echidna Chasm. This chasm is probably 2km long and really narrow (sometimes not wider than 2m). The colours inside the chasm are varying immense – depending how the sun shines into it. Some times the sun fills the chasm and you might think there is a lava flow… We then headed outside into the heat of the day and went on to the next stop.
Talk to you later,
Cheers, Tom and Anja
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