Sydney Trip Day 3 ~ Blue Mountains + Jenolan Caves

This day, we have to wake up early again~ Cos gonna join a day tour to the Blue Mountains (to see the Three Sisters) and Jenolan Caves. Its a fairly long journey, passing by Anzac Bridge, brings us out of the city, then Parramatta River and the Sydney 2000 Olympic Park. The coach driver was very nice, explaining every single corner of the journey, but i nearly doze off...Haha~ Not that its boring or what, but maybe i'm just a bit tired of all the walking for the past 2 days.

When we reached Blue Mountains Visitors Centre, i bet its very cold cos i can hear the wind blowing sound even though i'm still inside the bus!! So my first thought was - prepare to run into the building once i got off the bus!! Lol!! Seriously no kidding ok~ I felt as though my face was gonna crack when the cold wind blow against it @_@

So we quickly run into the visitors' centre and queue up to buy our tickets. We get to choose between 3 different ways to go around the Blue Mountains, Cableway, Railway and Skyway. I did my 'homework' before i go and knew that the Railway would be the BEST cos it'll travel along the steepest track in the world!! But to my disappointment, it was not available on that day!! So sad man~ Anyway, we decided to go on the Skyway instead (at least its better than the Cableway, lol! But the Skyway is actually the recommended one as its the newest, and there's a glass floor which will become transparent mid-way over the Three Sisters. We will then be looking down to the rainforest which is 270 metres below us. Sounds cool huh? And yes It is!! Fantastic view~

Let me tell you the story about the Three Sisters, they are Meehni, Wimlah and Gunnedoo, 3 young beautiful ladies of the Katoomba tribe. 3 brothers from another tribe fall in love with them but the tribal law forbid them to marry one another so the 3 brothers decide to go the hard way - capture the 3 sisters which ends up causing a tribal war. A witch doctor during that time 'volunteered' to turn the three sisters into stones to protect them from any harm, BUT he was killed in the battle before he even got the chance to reverse the spell. And thats how the three sisters are still remaining in their rock formation until today, serving as a reminder of the battle. Sounds so sad but quite interesting though~

Anyway, lets move on to our next stop, the Jenolan Caves. Its one of the best caves in the world open to the public. There are 4 caves in Jenolan and the one i went to was the BEST - Lucas Cave. The other 3 were Imperial Cave, Chifley Cave and River Cave. Lucas is the most popular cave of all.It has the largest and highest chambers and its not easy to explore, highest level of difficulty, all together 910 steps. But lots of people in my tour group finished the whole journey. There's lots of beautiful & stunning limestone formations inside Lucas. Their most photographed feature would be "The Broken Column" -------->

But my favourite pic of all is this one, the one on the left, i love it so much~ stunningly beautiful formation~

Its so hard to take photos inside the cave cos the lighting was not very bright. Inside a cave...what do you expect~ I forgot how long was the whole journey, perhaps around 1-1.5 hours. But one thing i remembered is that the weather was super duper cold~ Up on the Blue Mountains and into the caves, I was freezing every single moment outside the bus @_@ But still manage to take pictures, as i always do, haha~ Here's a pic after finish exploring Lucas. You can see there's another cave right opposite it.