When I told friends I was leaving San Francisco to travel across the world to photograph a gigantic rock in the center of the ...

The story is always the same, when a friend comes back from a visit to Uluru, the “crown jewel” in Australia’s red centre. Yes, they’d seen the pictures of the sun rising behind the majestic red rock ...

Amid the flat, earthen landscapes of Australia, visitors traditionally had one experience on their must-do list: climbing Ayers Rock, the immense sandstone formation at the center of the country. In ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Australia is at the top of American’s Bucket List Dreams… as it should be. There’s the Great Barrier Reef, the Blue Mountains, the ...

The urge to scramble up Uluru, the great red rock rising out of Australia's desert heart, is difficult to resist for many tourists, despite the risk of upsetting the local Aboriginal people. A modest ...

Aboriginal theories about the creation of the Uluru rock formation vary and are rarely shared with outsiders, but the Anangu people are clear about its hallowed place in their heritage. It’s where the ...

The sacred nature of the iconic landmark Uluru, also known as Ayers Rock, is lost on many tourists -- even Australians. That changed this week after Google, working closely with the site's traditional ...

Located in Australia's desert centre, Uluru (also known as Ayers Rock) is one of the country's most popular, yet sacred tourist destinations. Since the 1930s, the spectacular monolith in Uluru-Kata ...

Since Australia's rusty-red monolith, Uluru, was handed back to its original owners in 1977, the Anangu people have welcomed visitors to walk its 9.4 kilometer (5.8 mile) circumference and soak up its ...

The long, contentious debate in Australia over the future of the sacred Uluru is over. Climbing the famed Northern Territory site will be banned from October 2019 following a unanimous decision by the ...

Uluru, Australia — Nature seemed to be siding with indigenous Australians' demand for Uluru to be respected as a sacred site on Friday when high winds threatened to prematurely end the generations-old ...