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Blue Mountains: amazing Jenolan Caves
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  • Updated By Salinas on September 15, 2002
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    Jenolan Caves. These are some of the world’s impressive limestone caves that amazed me!. There are some underground rivers and really remarkable cave formation. Just marvel at those stalactites that must be formed over thousands of years through the slow drip-drip of water onto the rocks. More pictures of the caves are in the travelogue.

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    Blue Mountains: The Blue Mountain
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  • Updated By Salinas on September 15, 2002
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    The Blue Mountain makes a wonderful trip out of city life and to get close to nature. The Katoomba – Echo Point is the departing station for the Sceniscender or Scenic Railway that offer an exhilarating ride to the valley bottom. Whilst the aerial cable car descends to the bottom station, you’ll get to enjoy the breathtaking Blue Mountains and view the famous Three Sisters and Katoomba Falls. . Reaching the bottom, do the boardwalk in the rainforest and enjoy the flora, take time to listen to the chirping of birds and the sound of waterfall deep in the forest. The boardwalk connects the Sceniscender with the Scenic Railway (the world’s steepest incline railway). We experienced this steep railway up to where we started at Echo Point. . My fondest memories of The Blue Mountains: The trees along the scenic drive up to Blue Mountains are preparing to shed their leaves for winter. Really an unforgettable beautiful colourful foliage of yellow, goldish, red and browns, especially so around the quaint lil town of Leura.

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    Blue Mountains: Blue Mountains
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  • By Joseph69 on August 15, 2006
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  • I suggest a trip to the Blue Mountains if you have a spare day or two. You can either go on an escorted tour arranged by your hotel/hostel, or alternatively, board a train. The journey takes around 2 hours by train from Central Railway Station to Katoomba. The cost of a return train ticket is about AUD$23.00+, but if you go after 9am (off-peak), you will save about AUD$5.00+. I strongly suggest to go by train as by bus, it may get caught in traffic and take even longer. Train is much mroe predictable and a lot more comfortable than by bus. Trains in off-peak depart every hour and in peak hours, about every 30 minutes. Most people go to the Blue Moutains to view the Three Sisters. The Three Sisters are also lit-up at night. There is some really nice bush walking (hiking) too. I suggest an overnight stay as it's really peaceful and fresh, but if that is not possible, it's a journey easily possible within a day. There are all sorts of accomodation available, from cheap hotels to resort style hotels with all the fancy facilities. My favourite location is Leura, which is next to Katoomba. Accomodation in Leura is slightly more expensive, but I feel it's nicer if you go as a couple. Just note that in the winter months it can get quite cold so take some warm clothing. It does snow there sometimes (not often). Generally, Katoomba is about 7 to 10 degrees celcius cooler than Sydney. Maximum tempuratures in winter of around 8 to 10 degrees celcius is not uncommon. The first train to Katoomba Railway Station from Central Railway Station is about 4am. Yes, that early! The last train to return from Katoomba is around 11:15pm.

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    Blue Mountains: An Old Time Candy Store!
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  • By FleurFox on July 30, 2006
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  • In the Blue Mountains, about 2 hours from Sydney there is a town called Leura. In this gorgeous but touristy town there is an old time candy Store. It is a very busy place as coaches stop there all the time, but it is well worth it. It has candy from all over the world and really gives a feel of being transported back in time. I can't remember the exact address, back there is only one main street in Leura and if you ask anyone there, they should know it. Happy eating!


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    Blue Mountains: Blue mountain scenic rail ride
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  • By mvtouring on July 19, 2004
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    Due to the fact that my friend Anne suffers extremely from a fear of heights we decided to do the scenic rail ride instead of the cable car ride over the mountains. Wow were we in for a surprise de luxe - this is a roller coaster ride of note ....... this railway use to take the coal worker down to the mining area, but since they do not mine there anymore it is now used to entertain visitors to the area. The view from there is absolutely stunning.

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    Blue Mountains: Blue Mountain
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  • By mvtouring on July 19, 2004
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    Fortunately my friend Anne convinced me to do this day trip to the mountains. What a fantastic day we had. We saw just about all the animals that are native to Australia at the sanctuary for wild animals (these animals were rescued after being hit by a car or hurt some other way). The blue mountains itself was absolutely fantastic, I have never experienced such majestic mountains before.

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    Blue Mountains: Blue Mountains
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  • By iandsmith on July 28, 2004
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    Of course you want to go to the Blue Mountains while you're in Sydney - that's why I created a whole lot of Blue Mountains pages. So why are you looking here? Okay, I'll give you a sampler. This is one of my favourite walks up in the hills (remember, they're only about 1,000 metres high). This is a shot of Empress Falls and the walk that includes it and Wentworth Falls is definitely one of the best in the area for day walks. It takes about 4 hours and the views are to die for. For full details see my Blue Mountains section.

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    Blue Mountains: Aborigine music
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  • By mvtouring on July 19, 2004
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    Well I am not sure if they always have someone there playing original Aboriginal music, but we were lucky on the day we went to find this gentleman. He was leaving a month later on a world wide tour to promote his music, so I hope things worked out well for him.

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    Blue Mountains: Less than 2 hours from Sydney ...
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  • Updated By beachboy on September 27, 2002
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  • Less than 2 hours from Sydney is the World Heritage Blue Mountain National Park, Katoomba. Bring along your camera to snap a few shots of the Three Sisters Peak. For the really keen, enter into the cave for close-up view of the beautiful stalagmite and stalactite formation.

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    Blue Mountains: The Blue Mountains
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    Governor Phillip originally called the Blue Mountains the 'Carmarthen Hills' and 'Landsdowne Hills'. The name was changed because of the constant blue haze which usually surrounds the area. The Blue Mountains is densely populated by Eucalyptus trees. The air is filled with finely dispersed droplets of oil, and combined with dust particles and water vapour, short-wave length rays of light are predominantly blue in colour, giving the blue look to the mountains.

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