Wentworth Falls Katoomba

We packed up the car and headed out to the famous Blue Mountains National Park, so called because of the blue haze that hangs over the mountains as a result of reflections from particles emitted from eucalptus trees (or something equally exciting!) It was a LONG drive, not helped my some hardcore traffic, but eventually we arrived at Wentworth …

Another early start for our first day in Sydney, though the 07:15 pickup turned up 10 minutes late. The meeting point at the corner of Angel Place and Pitt Street was actually a very short walk from the Medina. As we headed over the harbour bridge and out of the city some sights were pointed out such as a pub with a notorious past due it having an …

This weekend we took the opportunity to go and visit Luke (Mark's cousin) and Bec in Valley Heights in the Blue Mountains.
As we took the train from Sydney Central for about 1 1/2 hours we saw some of the outer areas of Sydney before the landscape started to change. Firstly flattening out into open pastureland before changing to dense Eucalypt …

Was soll man zu einem Nationalpark schreiben, bei dem man das Gefühl hat, dass er von jedem der geschätzten 30 Aussichtsplattformen gleich aussieht? Unsere Meinung: Die Hausberge von Sydney sind effektiv sehenswert, jedoch verblasst der Wow-Effekt ziemlich rasch. Da wir keine ausgedehnte Wanderung unternahmen, füllten wir nur noch den Vormittag mit …

Having spent more time in Sydney, despite enjoying the city and the lifestyle, we were keen to move on, so rather than wait around for our campervan to travel to the Blue Mountains we decided to rent a car for a couple of days and stay at a hostel before returning to Sydney to pick up our campervan and head north.

The Blue Mountains …

... a thump at the bottom. We headed back into the vans with our gear and drove down to the town of Wentworth Falls, a about fifteen minutes away from Katoomba, where we had a quick sandwhich lunch. I wasn't quite sure what to expect from canyoning, other ...

... scrub. It was shady and breezy and there weren't, thank god, any stairs. Then we began to descend along a path that paralleled Wentworth Falls themselves; the waterfalls here often don't have a lot of water in them, but what they lack in pure volume they ...

... more tat)we made our way up the highway and onto the Blue Mountains. We first of all stopped off at a place called Wentworth falls. The views were great. The reason the mountains are called blue is due to the eucalyptus trees. The oli evaporates ...

... of a spider to show us! and put another little black and yellow spider in my face...great stuff! We then went to Wentworth Falls which involved a 2-3 hour walk to the waterfalls itself and on the way there were many stops by Smokey giving us good detail ...

... , named Blue because of the hazy produced by the eucalyptus tress. Less than 2 hours drive we were at our first stop. Wentworth falls. Huge falls that rain down on us after a short trek to the valley below. After an hour stop we drove onto Echo point ...

... I would watch for leeches climbing up his legs as he was braver than me and went for shorts.  We got the train to Wentworth Falls station – when leaving the station we were called over by the Station Manager... we were intrigued as to what he ...

... others, but one in particular completely and utterly stole the show.    I have never seen anything quite like Wentworth Falls. The name is totally inadequate as far as giving any clue to the magnificence of these falls goes. The cumulative ...

... and were drove round to the cable car where we took a trip down the mountains, travelling over Jamieson Valley and Wentworth Falls, unfortunately the falls were dry due to the drought in recent months. when we got off the cable car we took a 20 minute ...

... words.. deze 3 stenen waren vroeger echt 3 zusjes, but I don't believe it). Zo nu tijd voor iets anders: de Wentworth Falls en de Katoomba waterfall. Deze waterval is hoger dan de Niagara Falls maar wel met minder water. Mooi om te zien! Zo, nu hebben ...

... a hike for us, which started with going down the Giant Stairs (900 stairs to be exact).  I thought the stairs down to Wentworth falls were bad ... those were nothing compared to the Giant Steps.  These ones were treacherous at best and I was ...