Katoomba Bed and Breakfasts - Reviews and Rates

Yes, yes this is very late I know and I have now been back for a couple of months, but I said I would finish this and here I go...it became clear it was getting diificult to keep up to date on the road and expensive to fork out for internet time, so I am now writing this from the comfort of my room and 24 hour wireless broadband. However, the me...

It's good to get knackerised again after a week in Sydney. Rented a car. We'll drop it off in Melbourne after two weeks. The Blue mountains aren't really on the way to Melbourne, but we said we'd go there for a look before heading south. The mountains get their name from the oil that is released from the eucalyptus trees which causes a blue haze...

At least for one day we wanted to get out of the city. So on our last day we took a day trip to the World Heritage Blue Mountains. At 6:45 in the morning and still very sleepy, we jumped on a City Rail train 2 hours west to Katoomba. In Katoomba, there is a hop on-and-off tourist bus that circles the city, attractions, and trailheads around the ...

After humming and harring about which hostel to stay in I opted for cheap and cheerful $15 a night Katoomba Mountain Lodge as opposed to $26 a night luxurious YHA. It has free internet which is why my website has suddenly been updated, but the keyboard is ****** hence lots of typos! It kind of reminds me of the hostels in South America - old fas...

So it is time to leave and Nina and I had talked about seeing sunrise from Echo Point ever since I arrived, so the night before we talk it up and people are excited, but I never thought we'd get 10 people out of bed at 5:45 am. But when I tiptoed around the hostel and unzipped tents, we had ten travelers bundled up and drinking hot chocolate tha...

Blue Mountain Hiking or as the locals call it bush-walking is plentiful up here at about 1000m above sea level. Not much wildlife other than birds and leeches which get in your socks and suck your blood, Dom will show you her wounds. The birds are really colourful with red, yellow and other coloured plumes but rather too fast for any decent phot...

we are in the blue mountains. they are blue but more like hills. its kind of boring and kind of dirty...kind of like whitehorse! we took the train here and ate good waffles and we are sleeping in a tent which is both cold and painful. we have decided to leave a day early because we are wimps. conrad's sun burn is peeling and if you don't like wa...

Tuesday November 14, 2006 If there's one disadvantage to traveling alone it's when you're trying to get yourself in a picture. I'm not particularly skilled in the art of holding the camera up and away and at precisely the right angle so I'm sharing the shot with whatever dazzling Australian landscape I'm trying to capture. Invariably someone alw...

The overnight stay in Singleton was a noisy one, parked in a rest area just off the main highway, we were up and gone before 630am. Todays journey took us through two state parks, Wollemi and Yengo a 200km drive to which we would eventually make the infamous Blue Mountains. Donkey had taken a serious disliking to uphill travel, which was a bit u...

This morning I woke up exhausted at 7:45. I got out of bed, dressed, gulped down some juice, and headed to the train station. Today was the day for Katoomba! The ride took two hours and was very overcast the entire way. Finally, we rolled in around 11 am. Katoomba is such a pretty town! The buildings are all circa 1900 and are right next to each...