The Three Sisters

The Blue Mountains

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October 28th 2008
Well, we hired a car. The second time I've driven a Hyundai. The only difference is that this one is big and posh and the quietest car we've ever driven (we got a free up-grade, yipee!!) and the other one was small and yellow and had the gearbox scraping against the ground. We drove out to the Blue Mountains yesterday morning - to stay in a place called Katoomba (about 2 hours east of Sydney ... read more

Oceania » Australia » New South Wales » Blue Mountains

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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