5th day in Sydney

In order to explore some of the inaccessible places near Sydney, we booked a day tour which bring us to 3 places, Feather Wildlife Park($20 each), Blue Mountains ($28 each), Jenloan Caves ($23 each). The tour costs us about AUD $39 which only includes the coach bus. The admission fees and lunch are paid separately. So the total price should be $110 per adult, but luckily we have some coupons which is 1 for 1. Phew~ Save quite a bit on the admission fees. 1 things I hate about touring the attraction with a tour agency is that there is limited time to tour. However, it is convenient as the experienced tour guide would bring us around and save the trouble of finding our way.

You can book the tour package from Golden Wattle Travel Services located in Ground floor, Market City,( Chinese speaking tour guide).

Featherdale Wildlife Park

Standing Kangaroo

Lazing Kangaroos behind - Feeding wallaby

Kola Bear and Us

We gathered at Hurstview at 7.15am for the coach bus, before setting off to the city to pick up the rest of the tourists. The first stop we went to is the Featherdale Wildlife Park which is located at the suburb of Sydney(1 hour drive). We are only given 1 hour to explore the park so we didn’t manage to cover them all. We manage to take a lot of photos with the cute Kola Bear and feed some of the Kangaroos and Wallabies. The Kangaroos and Wallabies here look so freely and are comfortable with the human touching them. Furthermore, they seem to be well fed as most of them are lying on the ground sun tanning. Ignoring us and our foods. +_+!

Blue Mountain - Scenic World

Nokia GPS Map - Blue Mountain

Blue Mountain - The Three Sisters

The next stop we went to is the Blue Mountain, one of the famous attractions in Sydney. Another hour ride from Featherdale Wildlife Park before we reach Blue Mountain which is located at Katmoomba. As usual we are restricted with a hour to explore the Blue Mountain and take picture of the 3 sisters.

The 3 sisters Legend
“The Aboriginal dream-time legend has it that three sisters, ‘Meehni’, ‘Wimlah’ and Gunnedoo’ lived in the Jamison Valley as members of the Katoomba tribe.

These beautiful young ladies had fallen in love with three brothers from the Nepean tribe, yet tribal law forbade them to marry.

The brothers were not happy to accept this law and so decided to use force to capture the three sisters causing a major tribal battle.

As the lives of the three sisters were seriously in danger, a witchdoctor from the Katoomba tribe took it upon himself to turn the three sisters into stone to protect them from any harm. While he had intended to reverse the spell when the battle was over, the witchdoctor himself was killed. As only he could reverse the spell to return the ladies to their former beauty, the sisters remain in their magnificent rock formation as a reminder of this battle for generations to come.” Extracted from Bluemountainaustralia

Jenolan Caves -Chifley Cave

Chifley Cave

Chifley Cave and Us

After having our lunch at the restaurant on the way to Jenolan Caves which cost us about $21.00 each. A simple 5 dishes plus a soup that is actually quite value for money as the food and drinks in Australia are very expensive. (Example:1bottle of coke is AUD $3.00)

There are about hundreds of caves in Jenloan, but only a few are open to the public. The tour included a 1 hour tour in one of the caves, Chifely Cave. The local tour guide bring us around the different parts of the cave and explain the forming and history of the cave. The interior of the cave is spectacular with the dim light just enough to bright up the room. The caves is mostly made up of limestones and in the inner part you can find some limestone transform into crystal, but too bad we could take some home as it is against the law.

To know more about the caves, you can visit this website Jenolancaves

Then we took a 3 hours ride from Jenolan Caves to Sydney and sleep through the journey back as we are exhausted from the trip.

PS: Forget to mention, the sun set in Australia is quite early about 5.30 pm and by 6pm it really dark.. Lesser time to shop +_=!

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