The Blue Mountains

Sydney to Brisbane

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January 20th 2008
Our hire car collected we left Sydney to make our way up the east coast. We got a nice surprise when we went to pick up our car- they didnt have the car we had reserved and so we got a bigger one instead! Our first day involved a slight detour out to the Blue Mountains as we hadn't actually managed to make this trip while we were in Sydney. It's a pleasant enough area, but the highlight (or lowlig ... read more

Oceania » Australia » New South Wales

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Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more