Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, Northern Territory

Guide to the Red Centre

Experience Aboriginal culture, desert adventures and the changing colours of Uluru in Australia's Red Centre.

The Red Centre is an extraordinary landscape of desert plains, weathered mountain ranges, rocky gorges and some of Aboriginal Australia's most sacred sites, including Uluru and Kata Tjuṯa. Floating in an outback waterhole, dining under a starry sky while being serenaded by didgeridoo, and watching the world's most famous rock change colours at dawn and dusk are just some of the Red Centre's only-in-Australia experiences.

Destinations in the Red Centre

East MacDonnell Ranges, NT © Tourism NT/Kyle Hunter & Hayley Anderson

Alice Springs

Kata Tjuta, Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, NT © Tourism NT, Jason Charles Hill

Uluru and Kata Tjuta

Kings Canyon, Watarrka National Park, NT © Tourism Australia

Kings Canyon

Trips and itineraries

A woman walking on top of Kings Canyon at sunrise © Tourism NT/Mitchell Cox 2017

7-day road trip on the Red Centre Way

Kakadu Cultural Tours, Kakadu, NT © Tourism Australia

10 days of Aboriginal experiences

Florence Falls , Darwin, NT © Melissa Findley

Waterhole hopping in the Northern Territory

Uluru, Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, NT © Tourism NT, Luke Tscharke

4-day family holiday in and around Uluru

Travellers' stories

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Featured articles

A visitor walking through the Field of Light art installation © Tourism NT/Mitchell Cox

Experience Australia's outdoor art galleries

Stuart Highway, Alice Springs Region, NT © Sam Earp, Tourism NT

Day trips around Alice Springs

Uluru, Uluru Kata-Tjuta National Park, NT © Tourism NT/Jason Charles Hill

Australia's best outback experiences

Indigenous symbol - Natural Beauty

We acknowledge the Traditional Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Owners of the land, sea and waters of the Australian continent, and recognise their custodianship of culture and Country for over 60,000 years.

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