Paul Down Under: Blue Mountains!

We booked a trip to the Blue Mountains. We had to meet near the main train station at 07.30 on Sunday morning (yeah it killed me getting up for that time!). When we got there they didn't have us down for doing the trip, the bus was full so the driver just took off and left us stud there!!

We were about to get on a train to the Blue Mountains and do the trip ourselves when the tour people called my mobile, apologised and told us to get a train out towards the mountains and they would meet us half way there with a bigger bus. So this is what we did. It was actually a really nice train ride and saved us from an hour or so on a coach travelling around hotels picking people up!

We got to Katoobma in the end and this is where the famous three sisters is:

We went and watched an aboriginal show:

And we had to take part in the dancing! :( Here's another few pictures my Mum is going to kill me for putting on here!

Then we went to a place called Scenic World and went on a sky ride glass bottom cable car across the mountains!

The views were amazing:

We also went on another cable car that literally dropped down the side of the mountain!

At the bottom we walked around looking up at the scenery around us.

To get back up we had to go on what they called a "train", personally I would have called it a roller coaster!! It was brilliant! (my Mother didn't think so! but me and my Dad loved it :) )

You get into a carriage, the doors close and the train takes you backwards up the mountain at about 100 miles an hour, while you are literally vertical in your seat watching the ground disappear below you!

We had a nice lunch at a golf course near by before going onto Featherdale Wildlife Park. We only got an hour or so at the park, which wasn't enough time to spend really because it's an amazing place with lots of animals some of which you were able to feed & stroke!!!