For decades, hundreds of thousands of visitors to Australia's desert centre have trekked up Uluru, the ancient red monolith formerly known as Ayers Rock. But from Saturday, the climb will be banned.

It is a holy spot for the indigenous Anangu, where their ancestors rest and outsiders are cursed for disturbing the red-coloured Uluru monolith reaching for the sky. The problem, however ...

The board of the Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park voted unanimously to end the climb because of indigenous sensitivities. The giant red monolith in the Northern Territory is a sacred site for ...

Uluru, or Ayers Rock, is a massive sandstone monolith in the heart of the Northern Territory’s arid "Red Centre". Uluru is sacred to indigenous Australians and is thought to have started forming ...

VW Pics / Universal Images Group / Getty Images By now we don’t have to extol the virtues of train travel, which offers the ...

Even Uluru (to use the original, now official, Aboriginal name for Ayers Rock), that hypnotic monolith in the center of the country, was unknown to outsiders until only a little over a century ago.

Joking that Ms Faltskog's bottom was bigger than the iconic Uluru monolith in the media at the time, she added: 'This kind of sexism is way past its amuse-by date, but let's not censor or sanitise ...

Where to Stay Most travelers visiting the Northern Territory will want to spend ample time discovering the region's national ...

After a well-rested night at the gorgeous Kings Canyon, you'll want to head south for roughly 200 miles towards Uluru. This sandstone monolith is often described as "magical" by those who have ...

Tourism operators are losing business due to wet weather closures of the dirt track at the base of Uluru. One segway tour business lost 36 days of trading due to closures — around 10 per cent of ...