Kinara means moon in Pitjantjatjara, and the spa is built as a wiltja, a traditional shelter, dropped into the spinifex with Uluru in full view. Every treatment opens with a Welcome ceremony. From there the menu runs on native botanicals, Kakadu plum, quandong, desert lime and desert salts, with Irmangka-irmangka at its heart. That healing balm is made from Scented Emu Bush by the women of the NPY Women's Council. This is bush medicine with a lineage, not a marketing line. You lie back, the red sand goes on forever, and the country does most of the work. Nowhere else in Australia treats you quite like this.

Spa Kinara at Longitude 131, Yulara
Bush medicine with a lineage at this wiltja-style spa set in the spinifex with Uluru in full view, built around native botanicals and Irmangka-irmangka healing balm.

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