The scale of increased tourist activity at Uluru has been captured in a photo of a kilometres-long line of tourists snaking down the 340-metre red sandstone monolith.
A person at the site sent a photo to ABC Alice Springs, remarking on the mass of tourists hoping to scale the site - which is considered sacred by the traditional owners, the Anangu Aboriginal people.
"There’s cars parked for one kilometre on either side of the road leading up to the car park at the base," the ABC listener said.
The decision to ban climbing from 26 October this year was announced by the Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park Board in November 2017.
The national park encompassing Uluru has around 300,000 visitors each year.
