Wednesday, November 29, 2006

20th November - Blue Mountains of fire

Got the train up to Katoomba and the Blue Mountains, only 10 dollars each for a 2 hour train ride, that's public transport for you.

Then after settling in we walked over to the 3 sisters just hanging off the edge of the blue mountains. The blue mountains are weird in the way that the town is at the top of them and you walk over and see a massive canyon in the ground stretching for miles.

The next day we got on a bus tour to Scenic world which had the skyway, cableway and railway. The skyway was just a cable car across a big canyon where it had glass that fogged up on the floor and when they were half way across became see through, fun, Sarah loved it. The cableway was another cable car but one that went down the sides of the blue mountains into valley, again large quantities of height above ground. At the bottom we walked through the rain forest having a look at a few mine structures still standing for tourist purposes only. The final ride seemed the easiest, the railway, as it is a train constantly stuck to the floor. This was the scariest of all, the track turned vertical and you went from sitting to standing and holding on for dear life. That's where we heard all of the screaming coming from when we were walking around the forest.

After Scenic world we jumped on another bus and headed up to the Jenolan caves. The caves were 70 km away and we got boring commentary all the way about all of the local villages along the way, nothing of interest other than the large forest fires that had got out of control and the large amounts of firemen driving around. It was hot dry and windy, perfct bush fire weather.

The caves were really cool but unfortunately the tour guide uses the same script as the guide in the capricorn caves. Even in the very similar cathedral cave we got another rendition of 'Enya' to prove that the cave has near perfect acoustics just like before. But the caves were big and impressive and all made out of limestone and water erosion. One of the caves made is big enough to drive a bus through - which they do as the car park is the other side of that cave.


In the evening we stayed in as the hostel was the second place in Oz that had free wireless internet. They are backwards here!

Back to the city tomorrow - Sarah is in for a surprise.

Laters
Pricey

P.S. Happy birthday Claire, hope you have a lovely day!

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