Travel Guide Bungle Bungle National Park (Purnululu)

Purnululu, also known as Bungle Bungle, can be reached via the Gibb River Road or the Great Northern Highway. At the turn-off, you'll need a 4x4 to drive the 53 km to the park entrance. It takes a good two hours to complete the route, which is strewn with large holes and bumps. It's a bumpy ride! At the end, the most astonishing and mysterious landscape on the Australian continent was revealed by chance during a plane flight over the area in the early 1980s. It can only be discovered from May to September.The Bungle Bungle is made up of a prodigious succession of domes of stratified red rock. For millions of years, wind, rain, sun and the temperature differences between day and night tore away sand and earth, until only the gaunt skeletons of the mountains remained. A mass of sandstone domes almost 400 m high is cut by extremely narrow canyons where livistona palms and other tropical plants grow. A multitude of unnamed gorges are scattered across the 440 km² massif. Like huge bells, these domes follow one another, interlocking, deforming and resuming their rounded shape for miles on end. The domes and spires of the northeastern fringe, Piccaninny Creek, Cathedral Gorge and Echidna Chasm, are particularly impressive. You can camp at the Kurrajong campsite in the north of the park or at Walardi in the south. No electricity available. Book on Parkstay booking WA.