I was quite relieved when
Lisa kicked our swag to wake us up in the morning. I didn’t feel as if I had slept at
all. I kept waking up throughout the night as it was so cold. I had two pairs of thermals, two hoodies and my coat but I was still frozen.
We were up really early
as we were hiking Kings Canyon to watch the sunrise. Lisa told us she preferred
to do the hike in the dark so we couldn’t see what was in front of us. To get
to the top of the Canyon we had to climb 500 steps, which was also known as
‘Heart Attack Hill’ , due to the amount of people that had collapsed attempting
to climb it. Halfway there a few of us
wanted to turn back but we carried on and I’m so glad we did because the views
were incredible.
The hike was quite
dangerous, as there were lots of edges with huge drops below. Lisa told us a
story about a backpacker who had died trying to get a selfie pretending
to fall off the rock. We had to make sure we always stayed at least 2m from the
edge.
We climbed to a high lookout point to watch the full sun rise and took some group photos. It was Shannon's birthday so we all sung happy birthday at the top of the rock,
We walked across the
entire Canyon and then climbed down to a waterhole known as the ‘Garden of
Eden’.
We then had to walk up another huge set of stairs to get back to the
bus, where most us napped for the long journey back to Alice Springs.
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