Backpacking Tennant Creek, Northern Territory Australia

<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <p align="left"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Times New Roman"><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2"><img src="images/tennan1.jpg" width="161" height="302" align="left">On a lonely stretch of highway, roughly half way between Katherine and Alice Springs stands a signpost which reads 'Three Ways' and from here you can either turn tail and head back to Katherine, travel east through the Barkly Tablelands or continue straight ahead to the township, Tennant Creek. Another mining town in the early gold rush days, you can still see tumbleweeds rolling drunkenly down the main street. </font></span> <p align="left"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Times New Roman"><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2">Travelers on their way to and from Alice, must stare in wonder at the endless desert plains and one could easily mistake the barren land for the red earth of Mars. However isolated Tennant Creek may be, it is a fitting introduction to the 'Devil's Marbles'<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"> </b>and the fascinating journey throughout the Red Centre.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span></font></span> <p><a href="NT_tours_by_regions.htm">Frames version for the NT</a></p> </body>