Where is the Blue Mountain?

The Blue Mountains is located 65 kilometers west of Sydney and is a famous tourist attraction in New South Wales, southern Australia. The Blue Mountains are actually a series of plateaus and mountains. Near Katoomba in the Blue Mountains, there are many strange rocks, including the Three Sisters, Genolan Caves, Wentworth Falls, Bird's Pecking Rock and other natural attractions.

The Blue Mountains National Park covers an area of ??nearly 2,000 square kilometers, centered on the Gros Valley, with steep peaks and deep valleys. There are various eucalyptus trees growing on the mountain, which are full of emerald green. In autumn, the leaves are red and yellow, and the scenery is more beautiful. Eucalyptus is an evergreen tree with a tall trunk and hard wood that contains oil and can extract volatile oil. Its volatile gases are refracted by sunlight in the air and appear blue, hence the name Blue Mountain.

The Blue Mountains are formed from the accumulation of massive solid sandstones from the Triassic period. The strange rocks and craggy rocks were once an obstacle to the westward advancement of European immigrants at that time. In 1813, the European Braslan Lawson crossed the mountainous area to reach the hinterland through hardships and dangers. At that time, a memorial tree was planted when he entered the mountain. The remnants of the tree still exist today, and it is one of the relics of the pioneers. The climate here is pleasant and the paths are winding. Blue Mountain City is a tourist center. There is a high-altitude cableway for tourists to visit and a cable car that goes deep into the canyon. From the car, tourists can slowly appreciate the surrounding cliffs, waterfalls and deep valleys. This place was also the place where prisoners were exiled in the early days. The ruins of Hartley Court built by prisoners in 1831 still exist, including the police badges, notices of wanted prisoners, execution chairs, gallows, and cells.

The Three Sisters stand on the banks of Jamison Gorge near the mountain town of Katoomba, about 100 kilometers away from Sydney, with a peak height of 450 meters. Three huge rocks stand out like bamboo shoots, handsome and tall, like young girls standing side by side, hence the name Three Sisters Peak. Legend has it that this is the incarnation of the three beautiful daughters of the witch doctor. In order to prevent the gangsters from harming them, their father used magic bones to turn them into rocks. Later, the witch doctor lost the demon bones in the fight with the enemy and could not bring them back to life. Nowadays, lyrebirds are often seen flying under the peak. Legend has it that this is the incarnation of the witch doctor, who is still looking for the demon bones in order to restore his daughter's true body. The Three Sisters Peak is too dangerous to climb. The high-altitude ropeway built in 1958 was the first passenger ropeway built in the southern hemisphere.

Wentworth Falls in the Lyrebird Blue Mountains cascades from a cliff into the 300-meter-deep Jamison Valley floor. Viewed from the waterfall viewing platform, the waterfall looks like a white stream hanging in the sky, with silver flowers splashing in all directions, leaping in joy and majestic momentum. Looking back to the west from the waterfall viewing platform, the plateau and mountain peaks appear and disappear in the clouds and mist, making it ethereal and strange.

The Genolan Cave in the Blue Mountains was formed by hundreds of millions of years of underground water erosion and erosion. It is majestic, beautiful, and unpredictable. There are caves in the cave, mainly including King Cave, East Cave, River Cave, Lucas Cave, Jili Cave, Silk Cave and Skull Cave. Discovered by Europeans in 1838, it was listed as a "protected area" by the New South Wales government in about 1867. The stalactites, stalagmites, and stone mantles in the cave sparkle dazzlingly and strangely under the light. The stalactites in the King's Cave are long and pointed, extending downward to connect with the stalagmites. The huge stalactites in the river cave form the "pillar of the sky", which is extraordinary; the stalagmites are majestic and solemn like the minaret of an Islamic temple. The broken pillars and miraculous craftsmanship of Lucas Cave are all natural wonders.

The lyrebird is a unique landscape in the Blue Mountains and an animal endemic to Australia. The tail feathers of the male lyrebird resemble the harp, an ancient Western musical instrument, so people call this bird the lyrebird.

The lyrebird is famous for the showy tail feathers of the male lyrebird. But the male lyrebird's show-off behavior to show off his territory and attract the opposite sex is equally wonderful. Male lyrebirds often adapt to local conditions, use local materials, and use waste on the forest floor to pile up hillocks as their performance stage. The lyrebird spreads its tail and spreads its tail, showing off the beautiful silver underside of its feathers. It also makes a loud chirp and sings and dances to its own melody. The area occupied by a male lyrebird sometimes reaches more than 200 meters in radius. On the performance stage built in the territory, sometimes as many as 10 male lyrebirds take turns to "tour" their respective performance stages. The female lyrebird builds a dome-shaped nest from twigs and moss, with interior walls made of bark fibers and then covered with a layer of feathers.

Lyrebirds are very smart and can vividly imitate the sounds of hundreds of birds, other animals and even people. Both male and female birds are very good at imitating the sounds of nature, but male lyrebirds are better at this than female lyrebirds. It can be said that there are almost no sounds that lyrebirds cannot imitate. The sounds they imitate other animals are lifelike and similar, which is extraordinary. Some forestry workers report that lyrebirds can even imitate the sound of their chainsaws cutting wood in the forest.