The Blue Mountains Tour
- April 10th, 2011
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Today I’ll tell you about my Blue Mountains tour I was on yesterday
. I started my day going to the pick-up spot early in the morning where I met my tour mates and driver. After some time waiting for the “late runners” we began our one day journey towards Blue Mountains. Our group was very mixed; there were some Chinese, French, German, American and Irish folks on the tour. After about an hour we arrived at Blue Mountains, and our first stop was in a little parking lot (inside the Blue Mountains park) were we had to spot some kangaroos. After some minutes without luck Jason, our bus driver, decided that we were unlucky and we went on to our next stop. We got out of the bus and headed for a lookout post few meters away from where we stopped. Just when I stepped out on the platform all the trees that were blocking the view before were all out of sight, and I assure you that the look was stunning
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After that we headed down a little path into the forest. We stopped almost every 3-4 minutes where Jason had something to explain about the area, and I got to say, he was really good at explaining every single thing in such detail and with such humour. At a point we arrived next to a tree and he started explaning. While he was talking I leaned against the tree but then Jason went “look out, there’s a funnel web in the tree” and I got to tell you, I’ve recon that I’ve never moved that fast away from something hehe. After that he began explaning about the funnel web and how dangerous it is. Well after the funnel web facts he showed us some natural colours from some rocks just next to the “funnel web tree”, neat stuff
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After about an hour (and heaps of photos) we arrived back at the parking lot where we had lunch. After our lunch we took to another place in the Blue Mountains where you can see the so called 3 Sisters (which is 3 rock formations close to each other). After lots of photos and a good long Aboriginal story about the 3 Sisters we continued down the mountain.
After around 1000 steps we were told to divide in 2 groups: the people that had enough stairs for the day and the people that wanted to further explore down the steps. I went on the further exploring team while Jason was following the other group back to the bus. It was great fun, we basically did what we wanted because nobody was around, so we climbed some rocks and trees around the giant park xD. After our walk we arrived at a “lift” that went all the way up to the top of the mountain where we had to get on the bus. The “lift” was a metal wagon driving on rails and pulled up the mountain with a wire. The seats in the wagon were tilted over 45 degrees and there was a metal “fence” for roof, so it was quirt a laugh getting in LOL. Jason had told that it was the steepest rail road in the world, so I expected the worst hehe. When it started it was very slow on the first 15 meters (where the rails were flexing to get the same angle as the mountain), and all the time I was like “fuck, it’s getting steeper and steeper, how much more can it go?” After reaching the same angle as the mountain the wagon violently increased speed and we were flying up the mountain, it was really f**king awesome, such a laugh. After 30 seconds we had reached the top and it was time to get in the bus and head back home after a long day out.
Blue Mountains really was a great/fun experience, I’m really looking forward to my next tour (wherever it may be)!
Well it was all for now folks, see you next time


