For the Whitehead's last weekend in Australia, we flew to Broken Hill. From there we rented a car (Mitsubishi Lancer) and drove, rally style, through the outback. We saw Broken Hill (lead and zinc mining town), Silverton (silver mining town and the filming location for Mad Max II), Mutawintji National Park, and White Cliffs (opal mining town, with an underground hotel).
Here are the outback pictures.
The Whiteheads leave for Canada tomorrow. For their last night we went to a great production of Buddy! (The Buddy Holly Story). It was a real toe-tapper.
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Driving rally style through the outback sounds fun. Was it on both the paved highways and the dirt roads? Or does driving slowly on a dirt road count as rally style in the outback?
It was about 180km of dirt roads and about 300km of paved roads. The speed limits are the same on both (100km/h or 110km/h).
The quality of the dirt roads is variable. Sometimes they're hard-packed, sometimes they're muddy, sometimes rutty and bumpy. I don't think that poor Lancer will ever be the same...
The outback of Australia is really stunning. I have had the chance to camp for a few nights and the drive (Jeep-4x4 style, although I would have preferred a rally style lancer just like yours, lol) is very awesome as the view just never fails to amaze me. Hopefully I get the chance to do it all over again and next time, I get to see more animals.
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