Jamison Valley

Blue Mountains & Newcastle (wye aye' man!!!)

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May 16th 2006
Wednesday 3rd May we caught the train from Sydney to the Blue Mountains. We had booked into a hostel in Katoomba (the main town of the Blue Mountains). It only took a couple of hours so we had arrived by lunchtime. The train ticket included 3 days on the sightseeing bus so, once we had checked in and dumped our bags, we walked up the road to catch the (London) sightseeing bus. We sat on the to ... 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