Blue Mountains

Blue Mountains, New South Wales
2 hours' train from Sydney Central, Blue Mountains is a calm place for people to live, even now its disturbed by thousands of tourists.
The morning when we arrived, there was fog.

It just rained, so a lot of water

The three sisters are also surrounded by clouds. As to the name of three sisters: The three sisters were living in an aboriginal tribe, and they fell in love with three brothers in another tribe. But at that time, it was impossible for them to marry. So a war was inevitable, the three brothers wanted to get them by force. And a witch turned them into three peaks in order to protect them. But in the war, he was killed. So the three sisters can never come back to life.

The next day, it was fine.

Here is our walk map: (map from www.explorerbus.com.au Bus service in the tourist area, No 1-30)

We did from 8-12 the first day and from 14 Echo point to 16 the next day. Actually we did a lot of hiking, we went to the three sisters, and then we went down until the valley and then we climbed again the mountain to get to Point 16. It took us about 3 hours and quite exhausting.

Why it is called blue mountains? One answer is that the trees can emit a kind of gas which relects the blue color. But I have two other explanations: one is that the farer mountains look blue; and the second is that when there is a shade, that part looks blue too.

They even have Three Sisters Wine

In the forest and valley

waterfalls

a track in the forest

Also you can try the chocolate gallery: Blue Mountains Chocolate


One anecdote is that we thought the hostel was haunted. When we arrived at the hostel, we found the neighbour is a funeral agency. And our dorm is just next to that. Then at night, we found that the window couldn't be closed: when you closed it, it would go up automatically. This made all of us frightened. At the begining we decided not to sleep but to see what would happen. And we related that to the number of the hostel, 144 in which "4" in asian language means "Die". But later we realised that it was because of the mecanical problem of the windows. lol