walking in the blue mountains

blue mountains walking with auswalk

If you love cascading waterfalls, thick rainforest covered hillsides and bird song, you’ll certainly love Blue Mountains walking.  Numerous paths criss-cross the park leading to rivers, caves, canyons, waterfalls and towering cliffs.  During this Auswalk Blue Mountains walking holiday, you will travel from one side of the mountains to the other following the network on tracks through the National Park.

At the end of each day you will appreciate the comfortable accommodation Auswalk provides. All accommodation is included.  The properties are personal, characterful and all bedrooms have modern ensuite bathrooms.  Most meals are included, they are of excellent standard and we can cater for special diets.

Hiking near Katoomba and the Three Sisters

enjoy the three sisters walk on your blue mountains walking holiday

The Blue Mountains are well known for the Three Sisters rock formation near Katoomba.  There are several Aboriginal legends to explain the formation of the 3 Sisters. This is our favourite: There were three very beautiful maidens who belonged to the Katoomba tribe – Weemala, Meeni & Gunedoo. Word of their beauty spread and other tribes became jealous. Tribal laws prohibited the three sisters from marrying outside their own tribe. One day three brothers from the Nepean tribe decided to claim the maidens. A terrible battle raged across the mountains – blood flowed and stained the ground red, colouring the cliffs around. The Katoomba tribe were losing the battle and the maidens were terrified. They ran to the cliff edge and saw the fierce fighting. Their father, who was also the witch doctor of the tribe, cast a magic spell on them to turn them into stone where they stood. He planned to change them back after the battle, however he was killed when he went back into the battle. The Nepean tribe won and went to claim the maidens, only to find three great pinnacles of rock - the famous 3 Sisters.

To this day no one has discovered the magic spell which will set them free. If you find out whilst doing the Three Sisters Walk, the local tourism authority doesn’t want to know about it or else they won’t get the 1.5 million people each year who come to see the 3 Sisters!!!

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