Watarrka National Park, The North Territory, Australia

Watarrka National Park is located about 300 km southwest of Alice Springs. It is most famous for King's Canyon which is flooded with tourists every year making their pilgrimage to Uluru. Less than a few 100m of the canyon is a landscape of Sandstone domes, gullies and waterholes. A vivid landscape of red earthy colours, this is no more than a surface veneer. The area is actually made up of pure white Mereenie sandstone. Dust storms have covered the surface with iron oxide that has been chemically bonded to the surface by fungus.