Outback Australia.
Dead things do not disintegrate here: Not what is left of your apple. Not dead birds. Not dead cars. A new way to even think about organic trash. Finding wood to burn for the night fire is challenging.
It was very green due to increased rain throughout the past years (not one drop when I was there). The ground comes in all shades of red thanks to the iron in it. The skies come in all shades of blue and black, partly due to the fact that we saw all of it having to wake up at 4AM on this tour and slept under the stars. It is weird when you wake up in the middle of the night and your ceiling looks different because the millions of stars are in a different alignment and the moon is not where you left it.
This particular road trip helped me understand how massive this Earth is. We drove what felt like nonstop for days. Now I wonder why we don´t always sleep under natures ceiling. Or hike up mountains every morning, take a deep breath and enjoy the well deserved view.
Highlight: Our tour guide was British Australian but grew up with Aborigines, so finally I got to hear their stories.
In case you don´t know Great Big Story, they make really good short videos on things on our Earth. Glad I found this one on Coober Pedy which was one overnight stop:
