Visitors to Kata Tjuta and Uluru can stay overnight inside the World Heritage-listed park for the first time with the Tasmanian Walking Company’s launch of a new five day desert journey.
Developed in consultation with the park’s Anangu Traditional Owners, the Uluru-Kata Tjuta Board of Management and Parks Australia, the new all-inclusive itinerary will commence in 2026.
The Uluru-Kata Tjuta Signature Walk will see groups of up to 14 people spend five days and four nights inside Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park. There they will learn about ancient Anangu culture and history and connecting with nature while staying in environmentally sustainable accommodation.
It represents the Tasmanian Walking Company’s second Northern Territory-based walk following the introduction of the Larapinta Signature Walk in 2022.
The launch marks the culmination of a nine-year journey to bring the 54km walk to market, according to TWCCo-Owner, Brett Godfrey.
“This journey started in 2015 when I walked with Traditional Owners for 150 kilometres from the South Australian border to touch Uluru seven days later,” he said. “It was one of my life’s great experiences, and it made me want to share this cultural phenomenon sensitively with anyone prepared to tackle the desert and immerse themselves in Anangu history.”
He believes the new itinerary will attract an international market and become “one of the great walks of the world”.
The multi-day Uluru-Kata Tjuta Signature Walk will begin with Kata Tjuta’s giant dome formations and arcs east, along remote desert trails, red dunes, and through mulga woodlands.
Over the course of five days, there will be art workshops, lessons in land management practices, and daily three-course meals.
“For most of the journey, visitors will trek in full view of the two rock formations, both remnants of millions of years of Earth’s history,” Godfrey said.
“The ultimate destination is Uluru, a geological wonder deeply associated with Aboriginal culture and intrinsically etched into the Australian identity.
“This walk has been a decade in development, but 500 million years in the making.”
