Blue Mountains Travel
Although not particularly high as a mountain range, the
Blue Mountains is nonetheless renowned for its majestic
scenery of a unique kind, for its cultural attractions and
for its relatively tranquil, alternative mode of life
(despite being located so close to Sydney....)
Although not especially high, the Blue Mountains were sufficiently rugged to prevent European explorers and settlers from penetrating the inland of New South Wales from Sydney for some time.
The Blue Mountains region was inscribed as a World Heritage Area by UNESCO in 2000. Cities and Major Towns of the Snowy Mountains
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The Blue Mountains
Although Aborigines were able to negotiate the
mountain trails, it took Europeans from 1788 - when Sydney
was first settled - until 1813 (25 years) to discover a
way over. Even then, it was never by following the
valleys, but only by traversing the mountain ridges, that
a road over the mountains was made possible.
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