ARMSTRONGS ADVENTURES: Day 15, 16, 17, 18 Through east and west Macdonnell Ranges

We finally got cleaned up and sorted out and headed out to the East MacDonnell Ranges after calling out to the Transport Hall of Fame.
Visited Emily Gap and Jessie Gap which were great and then on to Ross River Homestead to camp for the night. The campground was good but the ammenities , well lets say we didn't shower that night. Got up early to travel out to N'Dhala Gorge it was a good drive with about an hours walk.
Our next destination was over to the West MacDonnell Ranges where we visited Simpson's Gap and then to Stanley Chasm which we found very touristy.
Set up camp at Glen Helen Homestead, this is a good campground , quite old with outdated ammenities, a very popular spot once again with tourists and walkers. We spent the next couple of days based here and did a day trip to Palm Valley which was unusual seeing a lot of palms situated in one valley of rock, it was a sunny day so the one and a half hour walk was quite hot.
Once back out on the corrugated road we headed to Hermansburg where famous Australian artist Albert Namatjira was born and grew up. Wandering through the old Historic precinct was facinating and the old buildings have been and are being restored. There are also some of Albert's original paintings here.
Our next couple of days were spent at Kings Canyon. We had a couple of very light showers of rain which produced some spectacular rainbows, otherwise we had fine weather.
We walked what is called "The Rim Walk" which is a 6k walk, first it starts with a climb up a mountain consisting of 500 steps straight up, it was hard going then along the ridge of the canyon , up and down mounds of layered sandstone and quite close to the edge of the canyon with amazing views, 3 1/2 hours later we walked back into the car park. We thoroughly enjoyed the day.
We are now in Alice Springs watching all the Hot Cars roll in for the" Red Centre Nats" which comences tomorrow.