Balmoral House Katoomba

... br>auf dem plan fuer neuseeland steht dann mal salat.. was frisches...ist hier total teuer das ganze essen vor allem obst und gemuese...<br><br>jetzt bin ich hier wieder im apple store, suche ein hostel fuer die uebernaechsten zwei naechte mit frei internet, dann kann ich wieder bilder hochladne...<br>jetzte gehts erstmal nach bondi an strand<br>ganz liebe gruesse, freu mich was von euch zu hoeren,<br><br>mele

from sydney i took the train up to the mountains for a few days. i stayed in the central town of katoomba in a very nice hostel. i went to the cinema to see the edge a film about the blue mountains and the dinosaur trees they have there as well as the history of the mountains etc. the next day i trecked along the cliff top to the 3 sisters and then walked the 900 steps down the giants stairway was very ...

... dit que ca devrait passer d&#8217;ici un autre jour (mais ca ne s&#8217;avèrera pas être le cas&#8230; je n'apprendrai à gérer la douleur que le 9eme jour et encore&#8230; )<br><br>C&#8217;est le 4eme jour que nous apprenons la technique de méditation Vipassana &#8211; les 3 premiers jours nous apprenons une autre technique plus simple mais qu&#8217;il faut maitriser afin de pouvoir apprendre la Vipassana. Et quand je me plonge dans cette méditation - qui en gros consiste a ...

30.04.09: It was hard to get out of bed this morning. We really got used the comfiness of the place! After chilling out with Cassidy, the dog, we headed toward the Blue Mountains, near Sydney. We stopped for a kebab and the owner, a Turkish lad, started to have a good chat, and even offered us some apple tea and fig. <br><br><br>We wanted to visit Kings Tambaland, but the roads were getting worse and ...

... yet again for any inconvenience. Lyn eventually arrived and refunded our bond (in full, in cash) with no dramas. Phew. Relief. Now all we had to worry about was how to cart all our luggage and a surfboard to the other side of Sydney via numerous buses and trains. No mean task. So this is where the logic of inviting the Czech guys along falls into place. They only had one bag between them. Master of cunning strikes again.It took a good two hours to reach the campervan depot with all our ...

... na carrinha) e levar a nossa roupa para lavar. A caminhada foi bastante agradável, mas o tempo mudou bruscamente e o Nuno mal consegui chegar ao Echo Point antes da tempestade começar. No Echo Point havia um pequeno canto mais ou menos abrigado onde ele e mais alguns turistas ficaram retidos por mais de uma hora, à espera que a chuva parasse, mesmo assim foi bastante interessante, a chuva e a luz do pôr do Sol criaram alguns efeitos espectaculares. Na manhã seguinte ...

... including the clean cut stumps of turpentine trees that had been cut down for pit props. The stumps don't rot easily and mining had largely finished by 1895, so it shows how durable the wood is. The path gets more tricky as we have to scramble over an old landslide. We reach the Golden Stairs, a possible ascending path up the cliff but it would bring us out a long way from Katoomba, so we retrace our ...

... thing in the world. There was a Tasmanian devil as well as some scary birds that flew around far too near me for my liking! The highlight of the park however, had to be getting my picture taken with a koala. I pet it and it reached out to take the eucalytus branch off me, awwww! Very surreal. They sleep for around 18 hours a day. My kind of animal. Sounds like we McGills are related to the species! :) From there we headed on up the mountains towards ...

... is a simple 2-hour train ride from Sydney so we set up camp in a hostel there. <br> <br>Upon arrival we tossed our bags in the room and headed out to the Three Sisters, an outcropping of three limestone towers that has become the postcard for the entire region. The Blue Mountains got their name from the unusually blue haze that hangs across the massive valleys. The blue color comes from ...