9am. Day 4, 03/07/2006, we are off to Blue Mountain. But before that, we need to clean up the car and pump up the fuel. Don't want to get struck in the middle of nowhere without fuel.
Check out how expensive fuel is in Sydney. That is 20 cent more expensive that what Perth is selling. Gosh.
We are nearing Blue Mountain. Phew at least we are not lost.
After a couple of hours of driving on road, we finally arrive at the information booth. I'm not too sure is it because we are getting near to Blue mountain or was it my camera. But the photos came out pretty blue.
There are a couple of tourist attractions here in Blue Mountain. Our very first stop was Princess Rock. I must comment there is nothing much about the Princess Rock expect at the very end of the road, there is a speculator view of a waterfall. It is not only refreshing and breathless view of the waterfall.
It took us another half an hour before we arrived at the 3 sister.
As the name implies, the whole place seems to be covered in a blue haze and talk about being windy. I did some research on Wiki: "The tinge is caused by mie scattering which occurs when incoming ultraviolet radiation is scattered by particles within the atmosphere creating a blue-greyish colour to any distant objects, including mountains and clouds." Wow, this just let me experience that Mother nature sure can do wonder to environments.
For a more detail view and walk around the mountain, we head down to Scenic World. According to Wiki: "Blue Mountains are rich in coal and shale" Scenic World is build for this purpose to allow visitors to view these mines. One exciting about Scenic World is the ride down to the lower part of the mountains. It feels like an roller coaster run and the whole design was virtually vertical straight downhill. People,with weak hearts, do take note. But it is a must to go for if one visit Scenic World. If you view towards the last few photos, the wind is just getting stronger and it is freezing toward late noon. After a few more photos, we head back to Sydney for something that will warm our bones: HOT POTS
It has been ages since I had Sichuan Hotpot. Furthermore, this style of hotpot, is very Singapore like. Gosh, you can even order chicken liver here.
Before we head down to Chinatown for a stroll, this cake shop caught my eye.
The cake that it sold was gorgeous. Look at all its product. This just made me wonder how come we don't have such shops in Perth.
Lastly, before we end our day, we bought ourself some Ontou otherwise known as pancakes. They are simply delicious. This trip to Sydney is beginning to feel like Hong Kong where one shop, eat and shop, eat and shop and finally rest for the night...
