Blue Mountains and the Hunter Valley

History & Wine in the Mountains

Leave Sydney following the original convict-built road and venture through areas steeped in Aboriginal culture. You will pass through historic towns and quaint country villages, as you head towards the famous Hawkesbury River. A ferry crossing here will provide a unique taste of Australia as you continue along this historic route.

You will follow the traditional tracks of the Aboriginal Dreaming Serpent as you climb high onto the top of the Great Dividing Range. You are now overlooking one of the World’s largest wilderness areas, home to unique flora, fauna and ancient rock carvings.

The end of the first day’s exploring ends in the Hunter Valley, one of the famous wine regions of Australia. The rural beauty of this region is a delight, not only to wine lovers, weaving a sense of an idyllic existence.  

O/n – Cumberland Motor Inn 

Day 2

Today is spent exploring this splendid area. Discover the tastes and fresh flavors that have made this region so famous. 

After lunch, it is time to venture inland. Here you will find early settlers’ tracks, awesome scenery and wildflowers, as you traverse the edge of the wilderness. You will cross some more 4WD terrain, as you pass by some of the engineering feats that hark back to the old logging days.  

You will travel through the flood plains of the Hawkesbury and Nepean Rivers as you return to Sydney, your mind alive with images of the mountains and rivers, wines and wilderness as well as a sense of the history that has made this land.                                                                                            

Tour departs 07:30 on the first day and returns 18:00 on the next day.