Day 1. Aplice Springs to West MacDonnell. This morning travel to the MacDonnell's, full of enchanting gorges, leafy rivers, Spinifex slopes and rare fauna. These desert mountains are the wettest parts of the central Australian deserts, harbouring oases of animals and plants alike. Visit Gosse Bluff (Tnorala) a 130 million year old comet crater and a complex sacred site to the Arrente people, Ormiston Gorge and Ellery Creek with their stunning display of geological history and the Ochre pits where a rare rainbow of coloured ochre is exposed in a small creek bed. Overnight in Alice Springs L

Day 2. Palm Valley and Kings Canyon. Today visit Hermannsburg Historical Precinct - the first Aboriginal Mission in the Northern Territory established by the Lutheran Church. Here you stop for Hermannsburg's well known art display, to view and hear how Albert Namatjira went from handyman to world famous watercolourist. Make your way on 4WD tracks to beautiful Palm Valley in Finke Gorge National Park. You will wonder through sands of the graceful, relict palm Livistona mariae which occurs nowhere else in the world. You will then journey onwards towards the George Gill Range and Watarrka National Park, featuring the spectacular Kings Canyon. With over 600 species of plant, Kings Canyon is botanically the richest region in all of arid Australia. (NOTE: The ability to visit Palm Valley is dependant on weather and road conditions. The itinerary may be changed at short notice when access is not possible).Overnight in Kings Canyon. L

Day 3. Kings Canyon and Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park. At sunrise, undertake the Rim Walk through the beehive like domes and oases of vegetation to explore the many unusual features of the Watarrka National Park. Departing mid morning, head for Uluru Kata Tjuta National Park and an afternoon tour to Kata Tjuta (the Olgas). Witness the spectacular colour change on the domes of Kata Tjuta at sunset, with complimentary champagne before returning to your accommodation at Ayers Rock Resort L

Day 4. Uluru. This morning you will walk one of the oldest walking tracks on earth as you follow the Tjukurpa of the ancestral beings around the base of Uluru on the famous Uluru Walk (can be substituted with the Spirit of Uluru with notice) . After the sunrise transforms Uluru into a shimmering red, relax at the base of this majestic monolith with your picnic breakfast and absorb the solitude. As you follow the Ancestral stories of the creation theories of Uluru, you will also experience the incredible ecology that this rock hosts. Combine this with a 900 million year geological origin and you start to learn why this National Park is World Heritage listed. Depart on your early afternoon flight from Ayers Rock Resort. B