Ala-Tey burial ground

Burial mound from Xiongnu period from the 2nd century BC – 1st century AD. Here are very rich, unlooted burials of Huns that were created at the period when this culture started the Great Migration and arrived here from some region in Northern China. The burial mound is endangered by the flooding due to hydropower plant and there are on-going salvage excavations to extract the information before it is lost.

Terezin burial ground

Burial mound from the 2nd century BC – 1st century AD. Here have been made very interesting finds of Hun culture including a body of a partly mummified woman with rich garments and jewelry including a belt buckle with has been nicknamed “Natasha’s iPhone” due to its similarity to a phone case. The burial mound is endangered by the flooding due to hydropower plant and there are on-going salvage excavations to extract the information before it is lost.

Dinosaur Stampede

Almost 4,000 dinosaur footprints over area of 210 square meters, some 95 million years old.

Wave Rock

Highly unusual cliff formation that resembles an enormous petrified wave. Several more such formations are in the vicinity.

Uluru (Ayers Rock)

One of the Australian symbols, enormous and visually very impressive sandstone inselberg, 348 meters high, and 9.4 km in circumference. A sacred place to local Aborigine peoples. Here are many springs, waterholes, caves, and rock art sites. Endemic plants.

The Twelve Apostles

Group of closely located, some 50 meters high limestone stacks standing in the sea. Popular tourist attraction due to good location next to the scenic Great Ocean Road.

Shell House

Beautiful and impressive coastal cliffs, Ordovician and Triassic sandstone and shale.

Kata Tjuta (Mount Olga)

Unusual, impressive monolithic rock formation, consists of 36 steep-sided domes up to 546 meters high. A sacred place to local Aboriginal people. Endemic plants.

Devil’s Marbles (Karlu Karlu)

An unusual place with rounded, giant granite boulders often standing in seemingly unstable positions.

Bungle Bungle Range

An incomparable landscape created by highly unusual rock formations. The landscape is marked by up to 250 meters tall sandstone pillars and beehive structures of contrasting light orange and dark colors. Deep gorges, labyrinths. An important site for the investigation of sandstone karst processes.