Ayers - giant stone

The giant stone that lurks on the wild steppe of central Australia is a mountain, but there is only one rock. It is located south of the Macdonnell Mountains, 350 km east of the city of Ailissibulins.

The world's largest poisonous jelly island is 348m high, 3km long, the foot circumference of the mountain is about 8.5 km. The four sides are steep, on a flat top like a new island cracked, just like a giant animal resting on a ground that makes the mountain appear majestic, magnificent and indescribable.In 1973, European surveyor Kelispi Gauss came here to explore and stumbled upon this giant stone. At first, he even thought it was an illusion, not true. After confirming that the scene before his eyes is real, he is extremely excited, seeking to climb to the top. He looked away, only to see a wild, dense grassland, looking more and more immense.

To remember this unforgettable discovery, Gauss took the name of the then South Australian prime minister Hengli Ayers to name this rock. Later, rumors of huge rocks spread everywhere, tourists from all over the country came. To date, this place has been planned into a national park and become a popular tourist destination in the world.

From a distance, the outward appearance of the giant Ayers stone is round and smooth, completely a block, without taking a blade of grass . Visitors can come from many different angles, depending on their imagination and save unique images. But the great thing and the most interesting attraction is the brilliant nuance of the giant rock that changes all the time. At dawn, the sun was just rising, the whole rock was light red. By noon, it turned into the red of orange, reflecting the sun. In the afternoon, when the sun is about to set to the west, the stone shows crimson color, even turning purple. Night falls, it replaces the yellow-brown shirt to blend with the surrounding landscape. If there is a heavy rain or when the rain has just stopped, the giant stone shows silver ash, mixed with a little black, like a leopard lying on the sand.

The giant Ayers rock is actually a quartz stone block, a hard, rigid, rocky material. Through the erosion of the rain and wind, the rock face became flat, the stone still stood still and was called by the geographers of the mountain. The cause of discolouration of stones relates to the characteristics of lava. The surface of the red rock is composed of oxygen iron under the illumination of sunlight, under different angles will change color continuously, making the stone also named "five-colored poison jelly paint".

If you miss the giant stone at the time of heavy rain, there is also a particular animal. As soon as a dark cloud appeared on the horizon, the sky suddenly became dark, and the dust was blind, followed by the rain pouring down with the wind hissing every time. The big stone at that time had to go through a formidable ordeal, the tourists were still in a state of shock, the rain suddenly stopped, the clouds melted, the sun came out again, the giant stone was exposed again. At that time, the four sides of the monolith were flowing like thousands of silver bands, under the light of seven rainbow colors on the horizon, it became extremely magnificent.

From ancient times to now, the locals for this stone are very respectful. They watched the rock as a god and knelt down to worship. It is said that there is a full-color god snake in the cave so the people nearby come here to sacrifice periodically.

From the small road west of the stone Ayers, iron chains can be climbed to the top of a rocky mountain, enduring a cold night. Finally, I will see a bright red line on the horizon, followed by a glowing ring, finally spilling out a fireball, the whole vast steppe becomes bright, amazingly beautiful. At that time, as experienced through the sacred divine times of the site of the prehistoric age, human spirit was also purified and sublimated.