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The Three Sisters is an attraction that has become synonymous with the Blue Mountains, New South Wales. This trio of sandstone rocks towers over the Jamison Valley, with the blue-ridge mountains stretching to infinity in the horizon, attracting millions of tourists every year! So much so that, it has turned into a must-halt on all  Blue Mountains tours from Sydney ! Fact Versus Legend Over 300 million years in the making, this landscape was once the floor of a shallow sea. Weather-beaten over millions of years, the sea receded and the seabed was crushed and squashed into rock. The remaining creeks and rivers spent a few more million years carving out plateaus, cliffs and mountains that are now iconic vantage points and attractions at Blue Mountains! To make things a little more interesting, we’ll let the geographical changes take a backseat! Let’s learn more about the two Aboriginal legends that supposedly led to creation of the Three Sisters – one is a tale of forbidden love, t...

Uluru is one of Australia’s iconic natural landmarks with many making a beeline on an Uluru sightseeing tour for this location that is imbued with Aboriginal culture. Scaling or walking around Ayers Rock is one of the main things to do in Uluru and an integral part of all Uluru tours. At a height of 348 mts, Uluru is an ‘inselberg’, geographically defined as a prominent knobs of landmasses that rise abruptly from the surface and are surrounded by flat lowlands.  Well, to the perplexity of many tourists, there is a second inselberg close by that many mistake for Uluru! Attila is almost a perfect doppelganger but you really can’t blame people for mistaking it for Uluru! When you’re travelling in a coach for many hours, passing through boundless parched land with only Uluru on your mind, the chances are you will see Atilla and believe you’ve arrived at your destination! As this mistake was repeated by many over the years, Attila came to be locally known as ‘Fool-a-ru’ and ...

Family tour, honeymoon or weekend getaway – no trip to Australia is unabridged without time spend at the ‘heart of the continent’. Uluru, the homogenous monolith standing 348 metres high and 2.5 times the height of Sydney Harbour Bridge, lies smack dab in the middle of the Australian Outback that is scorching during the day and chilly at night. The colour changing characteristics of this iconic sandstone structure is another story altogether! Ayers Rock, the alternative name given to what local Anangu refer to as ‘Uluru’, was titled so in 1873 in honour of Sir Henry Ayers, the then Chief Secretary of South Australia. The inselberg that Wiki lists as ‘an isolated rock hill that rises abruptly from a virtually level surrounding plain’ owes its red-brown colour to the oxidized iron-carrying minerals, or in layman terms, rust. Uluru tourism peaks from May to September with the weather being cooler and less humid. As the low tourist season from November to March can be a  b...