Today I got up at 6:00 am and caught the train to Katoomba (the station near the Blue Mountains). After two hours I arrived there and went straight to the travelagency to get my tickets for the hop-on- hop- off- bustour. I  bought some groceries and at about 9:30  I took the bus and got off at my first stop: The Scenic Skyway. 🙂 It’s a huge skyway which takes you over a valley in 800 feet height. At halfway the skyway the floor was made of glass so that you could look down and sightsee the landscape (Katoomba Falls) underneath  yourself. 🙂 It was amazing.

Having reached the other side I took the Scenic Cableway to go down to the Scenic Boardwalk through a rainforest. 🙂

I joined a guided tour and learnt a lot about the different trees, plants and about the mining history of this place. 🙂

After that I took a quick look at the Katoomba Falls and had a break. 🙂

Then I took the steepest Incline Railway in the world to return to the start. 🙂 It was just awesome you could choose between three different positions (laidback, original and cliffhanger). I took the cliffhanger position, so it was  64° steep at the steepest part of the track. 🙂 Just awesome. 🙂

 

After that I returned on the Scenic Skyway again and took the hop- on-hop- off- bus to go to my next stop.

The Bluemountains Chocolate Factory and the Three Sisters. The visit in the factory wasn’t the best because the „free chocolate tasting“ was just „Chilli and Peppermint“,  I had expected  something really special. But still everything was  handmade and that was unbelievable. 🙂

 

 

 

 

 

I preferred to have a walk to the Three Sisters, an extraordinary rock formation risen above the valley in the Bluemountains and they really look beautiful. 🙂

From there I walked along the Prince Henry Cliff Walk,  to the Katoomba Falls and passed  Witches Leap, another fall, the Viarra Grotto, enjoyed the view from the Reid Plateau and jogged down the Forbes steps really fast. All in all it was quite a long walk.

I took it as my workout for the day. 😀 I walked approximately 13 km altogether. 🙂 At the end of the Forbes Steps I came to the steepest railway again and took it for the second time. This time  I sat in the front seat, that was even more fun:)

Then I took the Scenic Skyrail again and went by bus to Leura Cascades. 🙂 There was a really funny lavatory.;) The Leura Cascades are beautiful rocks with water above them.

After I had taken a short break  I realized, that I had to hurry up for seeing the Gordon Falls, too. So I jogged again along the Blue Mountains ( they are called „blue“ because the sunrays reflect the  eucalyptus droplets in the air in a blueish colour) and arrived really exhausted at the Gordon Falls Lookout. 🙂

I was happy that I managed to do and to see everything I wanted to, and I took the bus to the train station at 4:30 pm . 🙂

I caught the train to Sydney at 4:48 pm, and so I had enough time to prepare for my visit in the opera house tonight.