About an hour drive from Sydney, is the famous national park, Blue Mountains*****. The easier way to travel Blue Mountains is by car although there is train service as well. There are many points of interest to stop and look, so driving is the best. The first stop, Wentworth Falls (above). The highest waterfall in Blue Mountains. A short walk allows this view. We cannot get a good picture for that as we spend not enough time there and the sun is too strong that day.
the valleys
Grand Canyon of Blue Mountain with a waterfall on the right side
Group photo for the Three Sisters and the valley
The famous Three Sisters***** on the left ~ ~ ~ Taken from Echo Point Katoomba.
The story of 3 sisters: The Aboriginal dream-time legend has it that three sisters, 'Meehni', 'Wimlah' and Gunnedoo' lived in the Jamison Valley as members of the Katoomba tribe. These beautiful young ladies had fallen in love with three brothers from the Nepean tribe, yet tribal law forbade them to marry. The brothers were not happy to accept this law and so decided to use force to capture the three sisters causing a major tribal battle. As the lives of the three sisters were seriously in danger, a witchdoctor from the Katoomba tribe took it upon himself to turn the three sisters into stone to protect them from any harm. While he had intended to reverse the spell when the battle was over, the witchdoctor himself was killed. As only he could reverse the spell to return the ladies to their former beauty, the sisters remain in their magnificent rock formation as a reminder of this battle for generations to come.
One of the 3 sisters. . .
The view from the first sister.
There's a steep walk that gets right to the front of the first sister.
Street parking charges applies on the street at Echo Point. So we parked our car further up the road from Echo Point which is FOC.
It was a good one day trip, an escape into green nature with just an hour drive from city!
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