Blue Mountains

Three Sisters

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April 22nd 2005
I was starting to get a taste for hiking so after coming back to Sydney and meeting with my good Swedish friend Eva, we headed off west 2 hours by train into the Blue mountains to get out of the hustle and bustle of the city and into wonderful natural surroundings. The Three Sisters are an aboriginal folk legend and are mountainous peaks standing next to each other at a height of almos ... read more

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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