The domes
Like beehives.
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The Bungle Bungle Range is a rock formation in Purnululu National Park in the East Kimberley region of Western Australia, about 300 km south of Kununurra. The park became a World Heritage Site in 2003. The park covers about 240,000 hectares and is managed as remote wilderness. It is known for beehive-shaped sandstone domes rising up to 250 metres above semi-arid savanna. Their black and orange bands come from tiny organisms that bind and protect the ancient sandstone. You see rounded domes packed together with black and orange horizontal bands, like giant beehives, stretching across a plain of golden grass. Between them run narrow gorges with tall red walls and dry creek beds on the floor, and from the air they form a vast maze of domes. It is about 198 km from Kununurra in a straight line, and the road in needs a four-wheel drive. The park is open in the dry season only.
Like beehives.
Black and orange.
Red walls.
Purnululu National Park, East Kimberley, Australia
Tiny organisms that bind the sandstone and colour it black.
In the dry season only, roughly April to November.