Rainbow Valley.
STUARTS WELL ROADHOUSE
Back on the Stuart, Stuarts Well Roadhouse is
92km south of Alice Springs. Powered sites can
be booked in advance and unpowered sites are
free. While it might seem unnecessary to stay
at Stuarts when Alice is so close by, it offers
the shortest route to the Rainbow Valley
Conservation Reserve, another one of those
desert landscapes that looks like a giant movie
set abandoned in the middle of nowhere.
Large statue of an Aboriginal man
atop a hill at Aileron.
AILERON ROADHOUSE
The Aileron Roadhouse is 134km north of
Alice, and as you approach, you will notice a
larger-than-life statue of an Aboriginal man
standing on top of a hill.
More statues include an Aboriginal woman
holding a child’s hand and standing beside a
giant perentie; in another area, there are two
more perenties greeting visitors.
Check in here for a night, take a walk up the
hill to the main statue, say g’day to the
kangaroos in the huge enclosure, have a meal
at the pub and perhaps a cold beer.
Artist at work at
the Aboriginal art
store at Aileron
Roadhouse.
There is an Aboriginal art store here (at
times an artist might be working on a
canvas) and the art on offer is beautiful.
Frankly, it stands out as one of the more
unique outback roadhouses.