Generally Blue Mountains is a big forest, I presume it's a national park. Wikipedia it, I guess it'd be better than my would-be theoretical background :)
One major feeling after visiting though - you want to come back and sit on some cliff, looking into far-away horizon of mountains and thinking life. It was great.
We began by going to waterfalls and around. Follow the trail, and stunning views are opening just as you turn another time on a small path.
We found a would-be closed for maintenance path that leads to waterfalls, it was great! Feeling of a real tropical forest, when it's all green and water gathers from the stones up there. Of course, I wouldn't be me if I didn't climb some tree around or didn't go right to the waterfall!
Views there - they are just wonderful, I loved that place. You go around, up and down, on the caved in the rock way, and at every second, left, right, above, beneath you - nature itself, so perfect and peaceful that you want just to breeze it and to be a part of it… Don't know how to describe best, I guess every mountain place, even though different, has some magic in it.
The we set for Three Sisters, famous tourist place, where you see a great panoramic view. Three Sisters are actually rock cliffs (not a surprise I guess :), according to a legend, there were 3 witches (don't know though good or bad ones), that were turned into stones.
I nicely enjoyed the sun there
And then - oh, then we took a trip in an almost vertical train road down to the plain, to follow the walking trail in the forest, and then climbed back in a cable cabin.
Things that amazed me:
I kept staring at all those unusual trees around me, they are just great! "Paporotnik", a plant usually growing from the ground as a kind of grass, in Blue Mountains it was a tree! It's just so cool, I loved it.
This one looks like a corn on the tree! too cool :)
And of course, eucalypt trees themselves. As I learned, Blue Mountains are blue, because eucalyptuses' oil, when melted by the sun, emerges in the air tiny fluids. And that, multiplied by hundreds of thousands of trees, creates a special blue-ish aura. However only from far-away, when you are actually in the forest, you just breeze enormously clean and very… forestly air, you know, that unmistakable scent of a real forest?
These are actually eucalyptuses
And yet another farewell look at the magnifying far of the mountains…
I wish some of you, my dear friends, come to visit me in Australia, so I can share Blue Mountains with you :)
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