pauligoesaustralia: Sydney Sydney Sydney

Our holidays began in Sydney, the maybe most famous city of Australia. Sydney is sooo beautiful and the two days we had were just amazing! We maybe didn't see everything but we saw the things everybody knows like the Sydney Harbour Bridge and the Opera House. And we found out that the roof of the Opera House is covered with tiles!
One night we had dinner at "The Rocks" which is the oldest part of the city.
We also visited Darling Harbour which has a nice park and good restaurants.
On tuesday morning we went to the fish market and had a dozen of oysters for breakfast haha. It didn't taste too bad but I think I won't eat it again. :D
After only 2 days in Sydney we went on to the Blue Mountains. They are called Blue Mountains, because they look blue because of the fume of the gum trees.
We were really lucky, that there are no bush fires at the moment, but you could see so many burned trees.
There are different walking tracks through the Blue Mountains which bring you to different places like waterfalls or lookouts.
Three really famous mountains in the Blue Mountains are called the "Three Sisters", because they look like three similar mountains. There are different indigenous legends which describe the story of the "Three Sisters". One of them describes the story of a indigenous father with his three daughters. One day the father turns his daughters into stones and himself into a bird to protect them of a devil. But then he loses his magic bone and can't make the spell back. That's why there are the three mountain sisters.
Our next stop after the Blue Mountains was the Hunter Valley.
It looks a bit like Germany there, because it's a wine region with many wine yards.
I'll tell you more about our trip along the east coast of Australia in the following posts. :-)