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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 ...