Katherine - Nitmiluk Gorge (The Ghan Day 1)

During our Australia round trip, we traveled by train across the Outback from Darwin to Adelaide.

The train consisted of 38 carriages and two locomotives for safety, making it approximately 900 meters long.

The Ghan has been running through the Red Centre since 1929, replacing the camel trains that ensured supply. Today, there are still about 1 million wild camels in Australia, descendants of the desert ships that were released later in this connection.

Today, you can experience a "cruise on rails" by taking the train, making excursions to three train stations during the day and continuing to travel at night.

Our first stop was Katherine, which we reached after a good four-hour journey. There, we took a trip to Nitmiluk National Park.

The canyon landscape there is particularly impressive, and we took boats through it.

The water depth varies greatly during the rainy and dry seasons. Now, at the end of the dry season, the water level is very low and we had to navigate around some rocks that can easily be crossed during the rainy season.

In the rainy season, the water level is about 6 meters higher, and the trees you see in the picture are then below the water surface. That's why they didn't grow straight up, but inclined in the direction of the current.