Flying to Yulara
After a Uber to the Sydney Airport, we checked in for our flight to Yulara on Qantas. We liked the automatic bag check in process, although getting the scanner to read the bag tag was troublesome. The flight was uneventful except for the family behind us with two kids with wet coughs behind us, including one who didn't want to wear the mask his mother told him to wear. That meant we had to put on our masks as we needed a negative COVID test to board the cruise later that week.
Once our luggage arrived, which was a very slow process given the size of the airport, we were bussed to the Ayers Rock Resort and the Desert Gardens hotel, where we would be staying. The check-in area was modern but the resort itself had been left behind in the 1970s. Our room was not ready so we dropped off our bags and walked to the Town Center for food. There was a cafe serving pizza so we split that and a pitcher of Diet Coke and then walked back to the hotel. They were supposed to have called us to tell us our room was ready, but had not, but we were able to get our keys and our bags had already been delivered. The room was a nice size and had a view out the back.
Field of Light
We did some unpacking and looked at the scenery until it was time for us to leave for our evening tour to the Field of Light, a installation created by British artist Bruce Munro. Munro installed over 50,000 solar-powered color-changing lights in the desert near Uluru. We walked all through the art installation before catching our bus back to the hotel.
