Blogs from Blue Mountains, New South Wales, Australia, Oceania - page 10

Blue Mountains and Sydney Harbour Swim, 12th-14th March The weekend of the 12th - 13th marked with the arrival of Avril and Brian (Bowks’s parents) who had flown over to visit and see some of the sights Australia had to offer. We picked them up from the airport on Friday evening and spent the evening chatting about travels. Saturday morning we were early to rise to head t the Blue Mountains, known as the Great Dividing Range, an hour and a half west of Sydney. The Blue Mountains gets its name from the blue haze that lifts from the eucalyptus trees that grow in mass and cover the mountain range. We first drove to see the Wentworth waterfalls where we did several walks giving us fantastic views of the falls and vast expanse of the Blue ... read more

Our Blue Mountains tour started bright and early with us having to get to the local pick-up point for 7:20am...I know, very early! We’d been told that it was a fun tour (Happy tours) as the brothers who run it were born and raised in the Blue Mountains themselves, knew it like the back of their hands and had good senses of humour. Well after a bit of confusion over who was on the tour and who was not, (there were lots of pick-ups for different tour companies at the same place and time, we set off on our journey to the beautiful Blue Mountains. We had been talking about the tour to a few people in our hostel the night before who said they’d been on it, (different tour company) but that they had a ... read more

Depuis mon arrivee a Sydney, j'avais entendu parle des Blue Mountains de facon mitigee: les Australiens trouvent ca absolument genial et recommendent une ballade la-bas a qui veut l'entendre, alors que les Francais m'ont souvent dit avoir ete un peu decu. Je voulais donc aller voir des mes propres yeux, d'autant plus que ce n'est qu'a 2 heures de train a l'ouest de Sydney, et il m'a fallu attendre ma derniere semaine pour enfin aller faire 2-3 ballades sur place. Et je peux vous dire que j'ai vraiment ete surpris en bien! Peut-etre est-ce justement parce que je ne m'attendais pas a grand chose que j'ai trouve ca grandiose, mais en tout cas certains paysages sont a couper le souffle. J'ai commence ma journee par une ballade a Wentworth Falls, lieu moins touristique, mais endroit prefere ... read more

Gday Final preparations are been made for the big trip next Tuesday to Nepal. Very excited and seeing Them Crooked Vultures last night made me even more excited. First stop is Kathmandu and depending on how i am feeling, i will look to get out on the 4th and sneak a week long easy trek in. No Major plans made and as my style, i will just go with the flow. Namaste... read more

Well the Blue mountains really took me by surprise, it was not like I remembered at all. We set off, Mum, Col, Deb and I early on Monday the 18th, we headed to the Zig Zag Railway near Lithgow. We relaxed on the short train journey, taking in the views and enjoying the old train carriages. In the afternoon we headed towards Katoomba where we stayed. We stopped by at the old Hartley village, only a few buildings in the street really, it was good to see how the old houses would have looked here as the early settlers came out. As we headed through Mt Victoria we stopped at Sunset Rock lookout for our first glimpse of the vast valleys, in Mt Victoria we went to an old museum at the railway station that had ... read more