• Are there any deadly animals?
• Are there any aborigines in the Blue Mountains?
• Hey, Mr Tour guide, don’t you get bored of doing the same thing every day?
• How far is it to the Blue Mountains?
• Can I leave my gear on the vehicle?
• Can we eat and drink on the bus?
• Are we at the Blue Mountains?

Sure! I’d be lying if I said there wasn’t. The Blue Mountains is home to some of the most venomous snakes in the World, one of which includes the Eastern Brown Snake. It is also home to the Blue Mountains Funnel Web Spider (Yes, you guessed it, it is a very close relative of the more famous Sydney Funnel Web Spider.)

Fact: We have been conducting tour for 23 years and taken over 100,000 people to the Blue Mountains and not one single person has ever been bitten by either a snake or spider. So, stop worrying.

If you are expecting to see an aborigine running around in the forest, throwing spears and boomerangs, then I am afraid you are going to be disappointed. These days the aboriginal residents of the Mountains live in houses and pay taxes just like everyone else.

Interesting Fact: Even though the Aboriginal culture in Australia can be dated well over 40,000 the aborigines only occupied the upper Blue Mountains during the last 14,000 years.

Only a little, particularly when guests ask this question. Truthfully, the answer would have to be in favour of "no". Apart from contending with Sydney’s traffic to and from the Blue Mountains, our tour guides have one of the most satisfying jobs there is. Why do you think that our guides have been doing it for so many years? They’ll be the first to tell you it is certainly not for the money.

From the City Centre (Town Hall) to Katoomba, the unofficial capital of the Blue Mountains, it is approximately one hour and forty five minutes. The distance is approximately 110 kilometres (70 miles) and the direction is west.
These details are not terribly relevant on our tour as we do not scream straight up to the mountains but stop at several locations of interest before we get to Katoomba. In fact, it is often after 1p.m. before we arrive at Katoomba

Even though our drivers lock the vehicle up when they are away from the bus, it is strongly recommended that you do not leave valuables on the vehicle. So please take our advice and keep your valuables with you.

If you have a medical condition that requires regular consumption of food then eating on the bus is O.k. otherwise, please refrain from eating and drinking on the bus.  Bottled water is O.K. Soft drinks (soda) and coffees are terribly difficult to clean.
We make a morning tea stop and a lunch stop on the tour, so it is really not necessary to eat on the bus.

This question isn't really as silly as it may sound to some. Geographically speaking, the Blue Mountains are not actually mountains.They are an extremely large plateau that was elevated hundreds of millions of years ago. Over this time rivers carved out deep gorges to eventually form the valleys that we see today
The Plateau is so large, that it is easy for one not to notice the gradual climb from Glenbrook (lower mountains) to the highest points in the mountains.

Even though the Blue Mountains are part of the Great Dividing Range, it is probably better to compare them with the canyon complexes of the world, rather than with a mountain range. Now all you have to do is visualise thousands of hectares of forest (mainly eucalyptus), wildflowers, sheer sandstone cliff faces, plunging waterfalls and beautiful parrots.

For more information on the Blue Mountains please see Blue Mountains Info.