Blue Mountains Day Tours
Sydney Charter Bus provides private group day tours to the Blue Mountains visiting all the major landmarks on an express 6hr highlight tour or full day tous from 8-12 hours. All Blue Mountains Day Tours start from the location of your choosing. All tours are private which means we do not mix groups.
EXPRESS DAY TOUR (6hrs)
- Echo Point
- Scenic World
- Lunch (own expense)
FULL DAY TOUR (8-12hrs)
- Featherdale Wildlife Park
- Echo Point
- Scenic World
- Lunch (own expense)
- Cahills Lookout
- Chocolate Factory
- Leura Mall
OPTIONAL EXTRAS
The Blue Mountains lie 122 km’s from Sydney.
The Blue Mountains area consists of 1.03 million hectares / 13,000 square km’s (5,019 square miles).
The Blue Mountains National Park is one of eight national parks that make up the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area.
Blue Mountains, Wollemi, Yengo, Nattai, Kanangra-Boyd, Gardens of Stone, Thirlmere Lakes National Parks and Jenolan Caves Karst Reserve.
The Greater Blue Mountains National Park is nearly half the size of Belgium (30,500 square km’s) (11,776 square miles).
It contains over 90 species of eucalyptus, supporting such a significant proportion of the world’s eucalypt species in the Greater Blue Mountains Area. Twelve of these are believed to occur only in the Sydney region.
The Wollemi Pine, worlds oldest species of tree found in Wollemi National Park is unique to the Blue Mountains. The region is so densely forested that the 40-meter-high trees escaped detection until 1994, flourishing undisturbed in a remote valley less than 200 km from Sydney.
The Wollemi Pine, one of the world’s rarest species, a “living fossil” dating back to the age of the dinosaurs. It was thought to have been extinct for millions of years. The few surviving trees of this ancient species are known only from three small populations located in remote, secret & inaccessible gorges within the Wollemi National Park.
There are over 140 km’s of walking tracks of all grades in magnificent settings make the Blue Mountains a bushwalker’s paradise. Some of these tracks were originally Aboriginal tracks.
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Blue Mountains History
The Blue Mountains got its namesake when the early settlers first viewed it from a distance. It appeared a blue haze was lurking above the range. The mountains are not actually blue, it’s the evaporation of eucalyptus oil from the dominant eucalyptus trees and the sun light scattering blue light particles that cause the blue haze.
- The Blue Mountains lie 122 km’s from Sydney.
- The Blue Mountains area consists of 1.03 million hectares / 13,000 square km’s (5,019 square miles).
- The Blue Mountains National Park is one of eight national parks that make up the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area.
- Blue Mountains, Wollemi, Yengo, Nattai, Kanangra-Boyd, Gardens of Stone, Thirlmere Lakes National Parks and Jenolan Caves Karst Reserve.
- The Greater Blue Mountains National Park is nearly half the size of Belgium (30,500 square km’s) (11,776 square miles).
- It contains over 90 species of eucalyptus, supporting such a significant proportion of the world’s eucalypt species in the Greater Blue Mountains Area. Twelve of these are believed to occur only in the Sydney region.
- The Wollemi Pine, worlds oldest species of tree found in Wollemi National Park is unique to the Blue Mountains. The region is so densely forested that the 40-meter-high trees escaped detection until 1994, flourishing undisturbed in a remote valley less than 200 km from Sydney.
- The Wollemi Pine, one of the world’s rarest species, a “living fossil” dating back to the age of the dinosaurs. It was thought to have been extinct for millions of years. The few surviving trees of this ancient species are known only from three small populations located in remote, secret & inaccessible gorges within the Wollemi National Park.
- There are over 140 km’s of walking tracks of all grades in magnificent settings make the Blue Mountains a bushwalker’s paradise. Some of these tracks were originally Aboriginal tracks.
Blue Mountains Aboriginal
The Gundungarra and Darrug tribal groups have been living in the region for over 6,000 years. Tools and rock art have been discovered revealing a rich culture that strongly ties the people to the land.
There are now reports that rockshelter art created by the Aboriginal’s has been dated to be over 20,000 years old.
The Crossing
They set off with four packhorses, five dogs, three convicts, a hunter of kangaroos and an Aboriginal guide. They had supplies for a six week journey that included salted meat, flour, tents, compasses, a hoe and tools for cutting and guns.
The previous attempts to cross we unsuccessful as the previous explores tried to find a passage through the valleys and often being blocked by inaccessible gullies, gorges and cliffs.
During the night the explorers spent the nights sleeping away from the campfires because they were afraid of being attacked by the local Aboriginal’s who tracked their movements but stayed hidden.
Their progress was very slow and it was difficult finding food for the horses. A couple of the horses fell because of the heavy loads they were carrying.
It was a difficult journey, through thick scrub and steep country and difficult to find grass for the horses to eat.
Following several attempts by others, they found a passage to the plains beyond by following the ridge tops.
They climbed a high hill called Mt Blaxland, from here they c ould see grazing land all around them sufficient to feed the stock of the colony for the next hundred years.
They had found a way across the Blue Mountains opening up greater opportunities for the settlement. The settlement at Sydney Cove and Parramatta could now spread across the mountains and the new settlers could begin to use the land west of the Blue Mountains name the Western Plains.
They were each granted land in the newly discovery Western Plains as reward for their efforts. The track they cut finding their way over the Blue Mountains is still in use today. It is known as the Great Western Highway.