Lilianfels Blue Mountains Katoomba

... along the cliff edges, but none of the ones I saw are very powerful. At the end of my walk was a circuit which went around an old coal mine area, one of the main reasons for the development of the area. The three options for getting back up the cliff were walking, the Scenic Railway, which is essentially a chair lift on a train track, and the Flyway, a cable car through the skies, which I took! This was probably ...

... cold, wet and very windy. When we arrived in Sydney it was 30C. What a difference. We took at detour and drove over the Harbour Bridge and saw the Opera House for the first time. We then headed west and started climbing up towards Katoomba in the Blue Mountains. The higher we got, the more the temperature dropped. By the time we reached Katoomba it was 10C and very cold! It was also dark and threatening rain, so we couldn't really ...

... have been designed so that no touching is involved at all. Our adventure caving did the opposite and we touched alot, but none of it on the crystal rock. My caving experience was immense and I loved every part of it. Wendy and Sasha were in their 50's and 40's and they said they even had jobs available for new recruits to work up to be guide and apparently it pays well...hmmmm!!! Its never too late. Thing is, I just love all this outdoors stuff. Given the chance ...

... it would be a bit on the pricey side, but when you are a café at the end of a grueling trail, well, it's not so hard to entice some weary hikers through your doors, no matter what the cost ;) And we were no exception! Our budget-conscious will had been beaten out of us by the trail and we were in no position to quibble about prices... especially since we would need to walk another 20min to get back to our car! These café owners are not so dumb I think.

... runter ins Tal selbst, dort einen etwa 2,5 km langen Weg zuer durch den Regenwald, und am Ende des Wegs mit der steilsten Zahnradbahn der Welt wieder hoch. Sie war wirklich STEIL! Oben angekommen sind wir zurueck durch Katoomba und zum Bahnhof, wo wir in den Zug Richtung Sydney gestiegen sind. Irina ist wegen ihrer kleinen Erkaeltung gleich weiter nach Sydney, Andi und ich sind in den Wentworth Falls ...

... les joies du barbecue a l'Australienne, dans un quartier de style victorien que nous ne connaissions pas encore...mille merci a vous deux pour cette soiree, et bonjour a Kip (le superbe chien que vous voyez sur nos photos) En parlant de photos, nous ne pouvons pas les mettre ce soir sur le site car il n'y a pas de port usb sur l'ordi...ce sera pour une prochaine fois! Isa et JF

... tale. Plus we knocked over an hour off the stated time. We also saw and climbed the Furber Stairs with lots of interesting lookouts along the way. There were waterfalls aplenty too, with our trips to the Katoomba falls and the Leura Cascades. The Leura Cascades were awesome and strangely peaceful, unfortunately it did involve quite a few stairs to get the best views. Oh well, our legs may have ached after but at least we got some good pictures.

... is always a bonus.

We decided to drive to the lookout just out of town, which offered a great view of the most famous rock formations here, "The 3 Sisters".



The entire experience was soundtracked by an aboriginal dude playing his ...