I went to Blue Mountains this Jan with my husband. We both love outdoor sports, so having heard a lot about the place and it’s beauty, we decided to spend a day there.
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We took the morning train from Strathfield Station at 7:32 and reached Katoomba station by 9:30. There we bought tickets for scenic world and hop-on-hop-off bus which cost us about 140$ each.
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To summarize we went to Scenic Railway-> Blue Mountain National Park-> Leura Forest -> Henry Cliff Walk -> Katoomba (5 hours of hiking)
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The bus took us to Scenic world where we went for a sky ride. I have to say, the place is magnificent. The blue hue of the mountains, standing tall, makes you wanna sit there all day long.
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The Skyrail
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That’s the waterfall which we saw from skyrail.
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The skyrail dropped us at scenic railway. We had delicious hot chocolate and milkshake in the cafe.Overlooking the ridiculously gorgeous mountain view, with a cup of choco milkshake, that is one of the beautiful places to have breakfast.Â
The Scenic Railway is one of the steepest cable-driven funicular railway in the world, the steepest incline of 52 degrees[1] contained within a total incline distance of 415 metres (1,361.5 ft). (wiki)
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The Scenic Railway brought us down to the entrance of Blue Mountain National Park, and then began our 5 hours of hiking.
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As we walked towards the Leura Forest, the three sister rock got closer.
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The path.
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There’s a wonderful picnic spot at the base of Leura Forest. It took us about 2 and half hours to reach Leura Forest.
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Waterfalls we saw on the way
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The Prince Henry Cliff walk
Walking around the The Sister Rock
This is where our hiking ended. After 5 hours I saw civilization again 🙂
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Magnificent views!
thank you 🙂
The skyrail experience must be awesome. Amazing clicks and you sure had loads of fun! Cool 🙂
thank you so much 🙂
The mountain scenery is gorgeous, what a lovely hike! Beautiful photos, thanks for sharing your visit. Have a happy week!
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Blue Mountains the three sisters as they are called is a lovely spectacle and your nice post brought back memories of the place!
Glad it brought back memories 🙂 thank you for writing in 🙂
Looks like you have truckloads of fun!
hehehe I try to 😀 thanks a lot 🙂
How beautiful. And the Blue Miuntains really are blue! Love the waterfalls and gorgeous views.
thank you so much 🙂
Great post!!! 🙂
Loved the pics too..
That climb/walk is absolutely exhausting, but worth it. !! 😀
indeed it was… quite exhausting. Thanks for dropping by
After 5 hours, you left (nature's) civilization and saw the manmade civilization (aka chaos) 😛
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yup that's true 🙂 thanks for visiting
Beautiful place 🙂
thank you 🙂
Wow! Great way to spend a day indeed!!
thank you 🙂