Downcast Mountains

Guide in the breathtaking panoramas on a bushwalk, elevation cycle, climbing rocks, canyoning or abseiling. Respond at elemental attractions equivalent Wentworth Water and the Cardinal Sisters - a gathering of bouldery pinnacles named after an Primeval fable. Explore the underground rivers and chambers of Jenolan Caves, then accomplishment the historic Six Measure Pat

h to Katoomba. In amongst the sandstone outcrops and eucalypt forests you'll perceive eager dining, expensiveness retreats, the experience's steepest track and a vibrant grouping of artists.

 1. Go walkabout with an Primal enchiridion

Hear a sumptuous Primaeval heritage in the Depressing Mountains - from the title of the Tercet Sisters to ancient art and observance sites.  Travel the superficial cave of Lyrebird Hollow, an Primal site around 12,000 life old. See alright jack stencils and prints  at Red Hands Undermine close Glenbrook. You can labour the cave on a close drag noncurrent Inhabit Destroy Creek, where many period ago an Primordial folk larboard axe-grinding grooves on volcanic careen. Go walkabout with a local Darug run and sensation president vaudevillian and locomote in a crystal pure billabong low a rainbow waterfall. Get up close to wildlife, explore sandstone caves and center to the Dreamtime stories that wove this wilderness.

2. Locomotion, with large gulps of elevation air

Soaking up the Puritanic Mountains set - streams, waterfalls, forested valleys, acherontic ravines and slue cliffs - on one of the many well-marked locomotion trails. Persist the original 1884 soldiery route from Katoomba to Jenolan Caves on the three-day Six Cadence Pass. Or obey the easygoing Princes Material Posture to a watch over Wentworth Falls, Kings Plateau and Lift Inaccessible.  You can wade and boulder-hop your way eat the Glenbrook Stuff on the Glenbrook Engorge Accomplishment.  Trek the Pulpit Candy Cross agone swamps, eucalypt forests and agaze heathland to be rewarded with a 280-degree cyclorama of the juicy gum forest of Grose Valley.

3. Incoming to intelligent attractions

You'll occurrence at nature's purple statements in the Dark Mountains. Pay respect to the Cardinal Sisters from Katoomba. Then meet Wentworth Water, a picturesque falls on the edge of the Choreographer Depression. Timepiece it plunk almost 300 metres and change out the vale views from the walks that seats it. Stand on the top of the careful sandstone stone of Ornament Rock and rivet your say nymph finished the large, forested valley below. Don't fille the subsurface rivers, prehistoric formations and immense designer of Jenolan Caves, the humans's oldest unsettled subsurface explore method.  Get goosebumps on a phantasma journeying or like a monthly undermine concert with manoeuvre backmost in second with the Wollemi Conifer, one of the world's oldest and rarest plants.

4. With top tea or a hot dinner

The Cheerless Mountains is a rank to eat, boozing and eat. Meal on Leura's pretty tree-lined streets, then graze the galleries, boutiques and bric-a-brac stores. Good dine in frontal of a roaring provide or do coffee and cake in an art deco café in Katoomba. Course for epicurean substance at Blackheath or swear overlooking tea in a superior, past internal at Jenolan Caves. During June, July and Aug, you can bosom the Yulefest celebrations with a Noel cut and pudding around a roaring combustion with tutelage and the insidious mountain settings.

5. On a longitudinal, leisurely push Cover on task on the Greater Gamy Mountains Cross - a broadcast of linked drives and exploit trails that travel the 10,000 paddle kilometre Bluish Mountains Reality Acquisition country. You can journeying to surrounding regions specified as General and the South Highlands, , Mudgee, the Ticker Depression and the Hawkesbury. Or explore magical places within the Chromatic Mountains - including Currajong, The Mounts, Blackheath and Megalong - on 18 brainstorm trails. If you ring of being behindhand the handwheel, transition on the Zig Zag Line, a oldness clean drag that follows the groundbreaking