The Bungle Bungles Are a World Heritage Site

We call them the Bungle Bungles, not that there's any bungling involved. At least, not that I know of. They say the name is a corruption of another phrase altogether: bundle bundle, a grass common to the Kimberley region of Western Australia.

In any case, this is the place where you find these groups of hills alternately striped in orange and black.

Purnululu National Park and the Bungle Bungle Range in Western Australia are a World Heritage site, and a part of the striking landscape of this amazing Australia

• The Bungle Bungles
• How to Get to the Bungle Bungles
• Bungle Bungles Fast Facts

Other World Heritage Australian sites...

• Heard and McDonald Islands
• Macquarie Island
• Tasmanian Wilderness
• Australian fossil mammal sites - Naracoorte and Riversleigh
• Lord Howe Island
• Central-Eastern Rainforest Reserves of Australia
• Willandra Lakes Region
• Shark Bay
• Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park
• Kakadu National Park
• Fraser Island
• Wet Tropics of Queensland
• Great Barrier Reef
• Greater Blue Mountains
• Melbourne Royal Exhibition Centre
• Sydney Opera House

Photo: Purnululu National Park © Australian Tourist Commission