Mount Solitary

Katoomba - Blue Mountains

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May 19th 2012
We went to the Blue Mountains after 3 very long days of driving!! 8 hours a day and still being so far from our destination we realised just how HUGE Australia is! It was beautiful scenery in Katoomba but a bit too touristy. We went to Scenic World and got to go down into the valley and walk through the forest, getting a cable car back up and another one across the gorge to see McKenzie falls ... 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