Crystal Lodge Katoomba

Jon helped my lug my bags down to car hire garage to collect the next chariot. The journey was punctuated by my dropping various items from rucksack including my trusty brolly – can't travel without a brolly now can I? I also had to come to terms with the fact that my trusty big rucksack may have finally had its day. I have been venerating it on this trip as I have had it for over 13 years and its been everywhere – so you can see why I was miffed to ...

... to wentworth falls about 10 mins away where i walked for miles and miles well about 6 hours to see waterfalls and cliffs good views along the way it was very hilly and up and down all the way so very exhusting. due to poor signage in the area i got a bit lost but thankfully found some locals who were out walking and followed them so i dint get lost again. <br><br>and then the next day i took the hop ...

... 8230;<br><br>Pause de 5 minutes et de nouveau une autre heure de méditation à faire&#8230;. Et cette fois-ci je contemple tout ca sans le juger&#8230; et tout d&#8217;un coup tout va bien. Je sais que ces sensations ne sont pas permanentes &#8211; car rien n&#8217;est permanent dans la vie- et donc ca ne me fait plus peur du tout. C&#8217;est comme si je pouvais faire un gros câlin a tous ces trucs&#8230;.<br><br>Et les jours suivants d&#8217;autres trucs remontent&#8230;. Des ...

... there was a wooden routed pathway - i had done a bit of research and informed the walk around the perimeter would take about 50Min's. So off i wondered - onto a side track away from the main crowds. Find myself walking through beautiful forests.I seem to be walking for quite some time, but i have every faith in my map. suddenly, the forest disappears and I find myself on a cliff edge! A landslide to my right, with an almighty drop down. Insanely there is a route still ...

... ans saw some cockatoos! <br><br><br>Echo Point is the most famous lookout of the Blue Mountains. The view on the Three Sisters and the whole valley is amazing. The Three Sisters are three big rocks worshipped by the Aborigines. The story says that 3 sisters were in love with three brothers from the neighbouring village. Unfortunately, they were not allowed to marry them because of tribal laws. The ...

... our short attention span let us down yet again and we were just thinking "Yeah, whatever, just show me where to sign and give me the keys!" I was a little apprehensive of driving the thing due to it's sheer size and was praying I wouldn't take any corners too tightly and scrape the side off the thing or wipe out any little old ladies and our $2000 bond along with them. I needn't have worried though because within five minutes we were completely lost and I was performing three point ...

... moc nenaprselo, ale stejne byly pekne, lesy v okoli taky. :-) Nase vychazka byla ponekud upocena, lezli jsme porad nahoru a dolu, ale stalo to za to, po ceste jsme potkali i spoustu zivocichu - ruzne ptactvo, jestery a pavouky. Vetsina z nich je celkem odrzla (teda krome pavouku) a jak clovek zasusti, hned naklusou a zebraj susenky. Cestou do kempu jsme se jeste staveli u par rozhleden - Sublime Point a Echo Point - z obou jsou videt slavne Tri sestry :-) (Three ...

... As a non-geologist, my understanding is limited but essentially the rock is made up of lots of different layers. Some of it is very soft and as that has been eroded away by rivers, undermining the hard layers above. They then shear off vertically to leave the spectacular layered appearance. Coal and oil shale has been mined here 100+ years ago and we see the coal seams in the cliff face in some ...

... to Cahill lookout where there were more spectacular views. We could see the snow clouds heading in and it was so cold up there. Down then through Katoomba town and on to a gorgeous village called Leura. It's a wee mountain village that looks like it's been preserved in time. I called into the Cafe-deli and had a hot choccie (as the waiter called it) and some choc mud cake. (yes, ok Slimming World has taken a slight back seat on this holiday but you have to ...

... in restaurants over here, so we stopped by a bottle shop - which looked suspiciously like a pub - to buy a few beers, and then headed for the curry house. <br><br>Our curries were TREMENDOUS, with huge naans, tasty sides, and our favourite beers. <br><br>We were ...