374375 2 Location 522537 I heard about Mungo National Park in a SOSE lecture at uni last semester.  It is a world heritage area for its Aboriginal heritage and archaeological significance. Mungo is about 110kms north east of Mildura, making it very remote.  The last 80kms of the access road is poorly maintained heavily corrugated  dirt road.  Needless to say, travel was not comfortable.  Sometimes we had to slow to a crawl just to relieve the shaking Troopy.  It took us about 2 hrs to reach the park. It was school holidays in NSW so the park was running ranger discovery tours for $6 per adult.  We booked into the afternoon tour of the 'Walls of China' the huge sand dune that the park is famous for.  The Park is jointly managed by the Aboriginals that traditionally inhabited the land and an Aboriginal guide lead our tour. It was hot on the dune when the tour began at 1pm but the walk was slow and not too strenuous.  The tour was quite informative, but laked real detail for 'cultural reasons' of protecting Aboriginal heritage.  We were shown old fireplaces, middens and animal bones that have been uncovered by the shifting sands. The Walls of China have been formed by years of winds blowing the sand from the now dry lake that once existed at Mungo.   The  dune is moving slowly  taking over the  open country behind.  The landscape was  bleek, but interesting because it is different to what I am used to.  The soil was very red in some places, and pale sand in others. We left as soon as the tour ended, dreading the slow rough ride back to Mildura.  The drive in and out really put a dampener on what could have been a good day. 2007-04-27T14:25:15-07:00 947978259 2007-04-08T17:00:00-07:00 0 18 141916 4389771 374375 0 204406 0.0 2007-04-08T17:00:00-07:00 Published 0.0 2007-04-27T14:47:05-07:00 99713 0