While everyone would go to Ayers Rock in the afternoon, the morning was open.

Ayers Rock is the largest monolith, or single-unit stone, in the world.

After lunch and a shower, we headed back to Ayers Rock with the rest of our group.

Late in the day, we headed back to Ayers Rock for the third time.

Ayers Rock is a vast, mysterious, endlessly potent natural structure.

It is as if we had never heard of Ayers Rock before.

Problem is we really want to go to Ayers Rock too.

One wall was dominated by a color poster of Ayers Rock at dawn.

"The red should be like sunrise at Ayers Rock."

Ayers Rock, the world's largest rock, no longer bears the name of a 19th-century politician.