Sydney - Day 3 Part 2: Blue Mountains, Katoomba

Here comes the next part.

This is a much further journey as I move right to the other end of the city, to the outskirts, bound for Blue Mountains.  Journey is about 4 hours one-way and the long journey certainly makes one sleepy.   Check out the sceneries around during my train journey;

trains are much slower as compared to that of Singapore as life is much more in the rush of there.

So here I am.  I actually walked about 1.25km from the train station.  Houses with generous space can be seen along this road as I walked along.  Exchanged greetings with a lady who brought her child out and was walking along this pavement which leads to the National Park right at the end.

Check out how still and beautiful the waters are here!  It took me awhile to reach as I needed to hike downhill to this place; the elevation was about 40 degrees.  Bikers and hikers whom I don't know also greeted me like anyone else and we simply exchanged greetings.  At the bottom of Glenbrook Creek, I took some time to eat up before heading up to the top of the Park.

Next destination: Katoomba town in hope to get to the close to the Blue Mountains and have a look at the 3 Sisters.

The town, Katoomba, is right at the the top of the hilly area where strong wind can be seen flapping the flags that mark the town real hard.  There's even a refinery like building which now looks like a regular building which houses regular shops.  It's known to ice on roads at this climte so one can see signboards on roads warning of the slipperyness.  From the bus schedule, it looks not workable since they only come by every hour.

By near 5pm, the sun is about to set, so it's time to head back.  Tonight's dinner:  Doner kebab which goes for A$8.  Being full of meat, it'll keep me warm for the night.  Back to base and time to plan for the next day.

Crispy and hot.  Great choice for the cooling climate.