Bungles Tour (cont’d)

We had a couple of very knowledgeable guides in Gabriel, Wes and Lisa.
Gabriel provided some very powerful indigenous dreamtime stories which spoke mostly of the rainbow serpent and how it created the rivers and waterways.

The distinctive beehive-shaped towers are made up of sandstones and conglomerates (rocks composed mainly of pebbles and boulders and cemented together by finer material). These sedimentary formations were deposited into the Red Basin 375 to 350 million years ago, when active faults altered the landscape. The combined effects of wind from the Tanami Desert and rainfall over millions of years shaped the domes.Read more