Long, long ago, there was a young Kuniya (python) boy was surprised and ambushed by a Liru (poisonous snake). Liru threw spears at the boy striking him and killing him. The spears were thrown so hard that holes were left in the rock of Uluru, which can still be seen. The boys aunt felt the evil that happened to her nephew and went to search for the Liru, leaving traces of her tracks around Uluru. When the python woman (the Kuniya of the story) found her nephew she fell to her knees in mourning. Liru, seeing this, began to mock Kuniya. In her grief and anger, Kuniya took her digging stick and struck Liru three times, killing him. This is the only spot on Uluru where water from the rock runs red. Even though Liru was dead, Kuniya curled up on the spot and keeps watch for his return. The first photo shows the path of Kuniya and the second shows her curled up watching for Liru's return. If you look at the rock, the top of it looks like the head of a snake resting on it's ...
This post is a little late, but here's my (our) take on Messila Water Village. It's located just down from the Jumeriah Hotel and Messila Beach. It has four water slides - one where you take an inflatable tube for either two or three people; and three others that you slide down without a tube. There's a lazy river, a toddler pool and play area, a pool and play area for older small kids, a wave pool, a plunge pool (where the slide dumps you out above the water), and one of those almost vertical slides that you slide down on a mat. My first impression is that it's a little run down and could use some updating. The tiles in the lazy river were painted over at one time and the paint is chipping, along with some of the tiles. There aren't a lot of inner tubes available for the lazy river, so everyone kind of just swims/floats along. The fiber glass of the slides is faded (understandable given how hot the sun is) and could probably use some patching. But...the kid...
Lungkata, a blue-tongued lizard man, traveled to Uluru from the north. He went to Uluru because he heard there were many other beings there and he was lonely. As he was walking around Uluru, he came across an emu that had been speared through the thigh. This was a dilemma: although Lungkata was lonely, he was also hungry. Although it was wrong to take another hunter's prey, Lungkata decided to kill the emu and take the meat. Knowing the hunter who had speared the emu would belooking for the bird, Lungkata cut the emu into pieces and hid them. Shortly, two brothers who had tracked the wounded bird found Lungkata and asked him if he had seen the emu. Lungkata told the hunters he had not, but that he had heard what sounded like a wounded emu way, way off in the distances and sent the brothers off. Lungkata gathered all the pieces of the emu and set off to find a place to hide. In his haste to get away, Lungkata dropped pieces of the meat, leaving a trail behind him. Meanwhile...
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