Bungle Bungles - Purnululu, rough road in is worth it. A Lap favourite

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In this episode of ‪@nextleveloz‬ we leave the van behind, pack the tent and head to the mystical and stunning beehive domes and glowing chasms of the stunning Purnululu National Park - the Bungle Bungles. It's a long trip from Kununurra and a rough road into the Park, but it's absolutely worth it.
We love, love, love Purnululu.
We spend two nights at Walardi campground, walk to the majestic Cathedral Gorge and then drive to the glowing Echidna Chasm, which lights up a golden glow as the sun passes over the narrow chasm.
If you are interested in visiting Purnululu on your travels we give an overview of the considerations to help your decision.
Then its time to head back to Kununurra, pack up, cross the Ivanhoe Crossing and head east, wrapping up our 3 months in Western Australia and commencing the next leg of the Big Lap adventure in the Northern Territory.
Welcome to Episode 33 of our Big Lap Gap Year. We're David and Paula @nextleveloz Like many of you, we've worked hard for 40 years, but we are too young to retire. So we're taking a gap year from work, we've bought our first ever caravan and are doing a Big Lap around Australia taking in the iconic destinations of our fabulous country.
This channel is for fun and to share our trip of a lifetime and 100% of any ad revenue earned goes to charity.
We'd love your comments, questions and tips. We hope you will like and subscribe and we look forward to sharing our journey around this magnificent country.
Some links relevant to content in this video:
Kimberleyland Waterfront Holiday Park: www.kimberleyland.com.au
Purnululu National Park: exploreparks.dbca.wa.gov.au/p...
Hoochery Distillery: www.hoochery.com.au
Western Australian Road Information Updates Map: travelmap.mainroads.wa.gov.au...

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@beesncheese 10 месяцев назад

Wonderful, gee couldn’t do the rocky road, not with my knees, well done !

@nextleveloz 10 месяцев назад

Hi. Thanks again for watching. It wasn’t physically strenuous but yes it’s rocky and loose underfoot. It quite literally is a dry river bed for much of the walk. If you took your time it would likely be ok, but we didn’t help ourselves by being in a hurry TBH (running late!!). cheers

@johnskillen734 10 месяцев назад

Another brilliant vidoe guys keep up the good work

@nextleveloz 10 месяцев назад

While this won't be one of our most popular vids - as we know people like the tough iconic tourer roads like the Gibb, the car break downs and drama etc, Purnululu- Bungle Bungles is one of our most favourite places. Here and Uluru give a significant spiritual sense of land and ancient history. To think the Bungles were only known to local aboriginal people and a handful of cattle station workers until the 1980's when the western world and science "discovered" them. so very very old, but one of the most recent of Australia's iconic national parks.

@andrewbaker937 10 месяцев назад

Thank you for sharing. And yes you are so right it is a stunning place.

@nextleveloz 10 месяцев назад

Its hard to get to but an amazing place. Thanks for watching. Cheers

@martinsmith227 10 месяцев назад

Thanks again for the videos, bringing back so many memories of our 2 visits 2008 and 2015 and just how beautiful Purnululu is - thanks again.

@nextleveloz 10 месяцев назад

It’s a stunning place and you can see why it’s spiritual. This was our second time and it still wasn’t enough.

@michaelclark4667 10 месяцев назад

G'day, my wife and I enjoy your channel, cheers for the genuine, real world reviews. Question, who did you say you turned to for your recovery insurance? Cheers Michael and Kellee

@nextleveloz 10 месяцев назад

Hi, Thanks for watching. For the Defender we still have LR roadside assist as the car is still under warranty and the recovery for the car itself is quite good by comparison. Even though RACQ roadside assist options are based on the car / driver it has benefits for towed trailer (subject to size limitations) . So, to cover the van better, we upgraded our roadside assist from RACQ Ultimate to they RACQ RV. www.racq.com.au/car/roadside-assistance/compare-roadside In essence it’s a maximum tow value of $3000 on any direction and a total package of up to $7,000 a year. It’s a little but of an expensive cover given we overlap between two plans - but much better than the car going a 1000km and the van only covered for 50km (land rover) or 200km for the RACQ other plans. Check it out. NRMA used to have a Premier/ Premium cover but I’m not sure they still do. cheers

@michaelclark4667 10 месяцев назад

@@nextleveloz cheers

@grahames9228 10 месяцев назад

I don't know if a lot of people appreciate the distances involved in seeing Australia's outback.

@nextleveloz 10 месяцев назад

Very true. And not only big distances but some of it is hard and slow big distances. But many of these places are worth it when you get there.

@helenverrall2892 7 месяцев назад

When you do all those gorge walks, do you take your first aid kit with you song with food nd water? Or do you not worry about them?

@nextleveloz 7 месяцев назад

Hi thanks for watching. Great question. On anything but the very short walks I carry a day pack with water, a snack at least, first aid kit and snake bite kit and sometimes wet weather gear / puffer jacket and on longer walks often take the jetboil for a brew. The day pack has the Garmin InReach mini 2 on a carabiner. Depending on what we think we might see I might take the bigger camera as well. Paula sometimes takes her day pack with some extra water and her puffer jacket. Depending on the walk we add some extra stuff like a headlamp torch. So for mid to longer walks it can be 6-7kg.

@peterbullen3347 10 месяцев назад

So how long is this favourites list now ?

@nextleveloz 10 месяцев назад

😂😂. Pretty long! There is something special about the Beehive Domes , Cathedral Gorge (which gets featured in the first of those QANTAS “still call Australia home” ads and Echidna Gorge. There is even more if you have time. We experienced it briefly on our first trip to the Kimberley in 2016 and wanted to see more. It’s a bit of a stretch getting to it though - and can’t take double axle vans in and the 60km entry road from the highway can be pretty rough.