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Katoomba Slideshow
Katoomba
Travel Blogs from Katoomba, Australia
Turen går til Blue Mountains
... 'nden ved at være lidt tidspressede i forbindelse med bilparkeringen og måtte tilbage til bilen, hvor vi kørte ud og tjekkede ind på Katoomba Caravan Park. Den dyreste campingplads vi havde været på med de 61 AUD det kostede pr. nat, og så var den ...
Katoomba - Blue Mountains
... one part of the cave, Locky asked if anyone could sing because the accoustics there were great. I have now sung in Australia in front of an international audience consisting of Australians, British, Japanese, Chinese etc.. fellow members of our tour ...
More pictures from the Blue Mountains
Here are a few more photos from the Blue Mountains, as I haven't been able to figure out how to do more than 5 pictures at one ...
Blue Mountains Part Deux (Minus The Fog)
... . Sean went to pose him hesitantly in a snap when the the aborigini said, 'move closer I'm not gay' ha I think we gave Katoomba a good 6 hour blast, seen everything and got it done, box ticked properly this time with the clear views. A day return on the ...
Birthday, Blueberry Pancakes, Blue Mountains & Bye
... spectacular and after a short walk down to the sisters we walked along the cliff path before heading back to the town of Katoomba. Our timing was impeccable, as we started our second bottle of wine the heavens opened! Suitably watered and ...
Caving and Canyoning in the Blue Mountains
We started with some adventure caving at the Jenolan Caves. They were discovered in the 1800's and have quite a lot of history to them, including the record as the oldest caves in the world according to some experts (our quite elderly giude ...
Blue Mountains
We took the train (kind of like the GO train) to Katoomba in the Blue Mountains. It took 2 hours and was cheap compared to the train ticket from the airport. We went for a walk around the mountain area and saw some amazing views and the "Three Sisters" ...
Blue Mountains
... jumped on the train to Katoomba where we are staying for two nights before we go back to Sydney for the New Years celebrations. Katoomba is a small town close to many of the attractions in the Blue Mountains. I was surprised how much cooler it was here ...
Blue Mountains
Rose: The Blue Mountains makes a good day trip from Sydney. A trundling train takes the best part of two hours to get you there stopping at tiny stations with charming old station buildings - you could think you were in Surrey or Sussex but then a ...
Journey to the Blue Mountains
... , I'm afraid, applied to the restaurants. We had dinner in town, but to be honest, it was unimpressive. The town of Katoomba was tired, graffiti marring the place considerably. Having heard it was a tourist place, I was surprised by the run down feeling. ...
Blue Mountains
... for a couple of days and not only for a daytrip from Sydney. It wouldn't have been the same. From Sydney I took the train to Katoomba, the village in which I had booked my very first hostel ever, The Flying Fox. It turned out to be the perfect choice. I ...
The Blue Mountains
... of days there. Katoomba is a small quiet town, popular with honeymoon-ers (the most popular honeymoon destination in Australia), bush walkers, weekend trippers from Sydney and retired people hoping for some peace and quiet. The National Park is called ...
Pink Converse's in The Blue Mountains
... all our stuff home without actually needing our own private ship! A Drenched but very happy Brian & Caoimhe Ciao Katoomba P.S The converses have just been through wash no.3 – they are getting there ! There is a glimmer of hope that ...
Journey to Katoomba
After a day of faffing around trying to organise ourselves for the weekend. we finally hopped on the train to Katoomba, which is the main base to explore the blue mountains from. The train ride was 2 hours and only cost about £5. When we arrived we made ...
Katoomba
Blue Mountains - Echo Point at night
Visita a las Blue Mountains. Me hospede en el Youth Hostel. Fui a ver el atardecer en Echo Point. Por la noche me fui a Coles, compre chocolate, leche, sopa y de vuelta al hostal me sente junto al fuego con los pies el alto y el portatil sobre mis ...
Happy Easter!
We had a four day weekend for Easter so we went out to the Blue Mountains. There's a town called Katoomba (classic Aussie name!) about 2 hours by train to the North-west of Sydney which is basically on the top of a mountain. From there you can look out ...
The Blue Mountains: the peak of small-world-itis
... full day in Sydney, we caught the two-hour slow train to Katoomba (I don't think there are any other types of train in Australia) to see the Blue Mountains. Once we arrived there, rather than catching the regular tour bus, we walked the half an hour or ...
A Day of Nothing
... in their instructions. It's completely different from Asia, the idea of people taking pride in their work. The jolt of coming back to Australia is giving me second thoughts on moving overseas (to China) to work for a semester or year. It's not that it's ...
Blue Mountains
... nbsp;but for safety reasons I must! We arrived in the Blue Mountains in the evening so just checked-into a hostel in Katoomba and spent the evening there. Early the next morning we went to two viewing points looking over the Three Sisters and ...
Sydney and the Blue Mountains
... ski jacket... We did long hikes (called "bushwalking") up and down the valley walls and over the Wentworth Falls. In Katoomba we had a chicken pot pie lunch and then viewed the famous Three Sisters rock formation. We also hiked down into the ...
Awesome!!
29th March Took the train to the Blue Mountains this morning. These mountains are part of the Great Dividing Range and the park covers 1 1/2 million acres, an area about the size of Holland!! The name comes from the blue haze which sometimes covers the ...
Blue Mountains
In the Blue Moutains outside Sydney now in search of real Australia. Leave for Bangkok in 3 days. Just read about Democrats' brilliant bonus tax idea and wished there was some place farther away to go (or some way to extend this trip ...
The Blue (green, red and orange) Mountains!
... because it was like being in the outback and was the first time we truely felt like we were in the wilderness of Australia. Above our heads there were flocks of huge white and yellow cockatoos swirling around the treetops and made us feel like we were ...
Zig Zag trains
Last night it was literally freezing. Car was covered in frost, we managed well especially since the caravan next to us had a fan on its heating system which was blowing straight into our tent! We made an early start and travelled over the Blue ...
Day 85 - Sydney to the Blue Mountains
... blue sheen which from a distance turns the mountains blue, hence the name. Navigating west across Sydney was ok, and we arrived in Katoomba just before dinner. We checked into our hostel, which is a nice old house in a quiet part of the town, with one ...
Home of the Blue Mountains
... into the great outdoors. I stayed a couple nights in a small little town about an hour and 1/2 outside of Sydney, called Katoomba. It's home of the famous Blue Mountains where you can find the "Three Sisters". These mountains are called Blue Mountains ...