The Blue Mountains
The Blue Mountains offer spectacular scenery, plantlife and wildlife. The mountains reach a height of 1100m, and have been given their name due to the blue haze that hovered above the mountains produced by the oil from the plentiful Eucalyptus trees. The Blue Mountains National Park offers great walking trails and is still relatively untouched similar to the other national parks in the Blue Mountains. The Blue Mountains also offers other activities such as abseiling, rock climbing and canoeing, as well as accommodation.
The two main routes into the Blue Mountains are along the Great Western Highway or along the much prettier Bells Line of Road. There is also a train service from Sydney to Katoomba approximately every hour, stopping at various other places in the Blue Mountains along the way. There are also a couple of bus services which run around the Blue Mountains. There is also a Blue Mountains Explorer bus which stops at 18 attractions around the Blue Mountains.
