Mysterious Mound in Australia Draws Thousands 到澳洲的神秘巨石堆探險
What is Uluru?
Australians have all sorts of cheery nicknames for the thousands of miles of hot, hard continent that lie beyond the coastal crust where anybody with an ounce of common sense lives. So why am I smack in the middle, of the hardest, hottest spot of all, swatting flies and picking burrs out of my socks? Why am I standing in a parking lot with hundreds of other people starting silently at a mound of sandstone partially buried in a sun-baked desert? Because it is the Rock, ayers, Uluru.
People are drawn from around the world to this odd bulge in the desert. It's the most visited single spot on the continent. Rebekah Francis, a feisty local tour guide who is one-quarter Aborigine, says she can tell people's attitudes simply by what they call the place. "For the Aboriginal people, it is Uluru, a place to be revered and respected as a central part of their history and culture," she says. "A lot of people respect that. But there are those from the Western cultures who come here to climb and conquer what they call Ayers Rock."
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