Nothing ... Not a thing

Probably one of the remote places I've ever been. The Northern Territory has a population of about 200,000 (only 1% of the population of Australia). Half of these people live in Darwin. Another massive chunk is in Alice springs, and the tiny percentage that's left is distributed throughout a state bigger than Gemany and France put together. Driving at times can get lonely where you won't pass a car on the Highway for half an hour or so. If you're going off on any of the 4WD tracks you still have to inform the police because if you break down there, someone else mightn't pass you on the road for another week! When you look at a map of the Territory you could be easily fooled into thinking there's lots of towns on the road. In reality these "Towns" are nothing more than a petrol station and you'll easily drive over 500km at a time before passing through another town. Adding to the lack of population is the sameness of the landscape. For hundreds and hundreds of kilometers along the highway is simply flat, unchanging bush that gradually gets redder and more desertlike as you approach the center. The drive down was a pretty unique experience and we definitely wouldn't have gotten the same feel for the place had we flown to Yulara.

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