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In the biblical Garden of Eden there were apples, but in the Garden of Eden inside Kings Canyon, everything is oranges. The canyon s iron-stained cliffs glow as brightly as flames, and their reflection is stencilled in orange across the dark pool of water at their base.
It s early morning and I m halfway around a trail that s often described as one of Australia s best day walks, circuiting the rim of the Northern Territory s Kings Canyon and dipping briefly into this Garden of Eden inside the canyon.
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The sun is still low, and the heat is already high, but inside the Garden of Eden the riverbanks are lush, damp and bristling with cycads, a relict, fern-like plant that existed with the dinosaurs. The song of a grey shrike thrush lilts through the garden . It s the very definition of a desert oasis.
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