On our last day in Australia we caught the train out to Katoomba to get a peek at the Blue Mountains. The most famous feature around here is the Three Sisters, a rock formation in the second picture down. The legend of the Three Sisters is that three girls of the Katoomba tribe fell in love with three brothers of the neighbouring tribe. However, inter-tribal marriage was forbidden, and a tribal battle ensued. The three sisters were turned to stone by their father, a tribal elder, to protect them from the fighting, but he was killed before he could change them back. This story is claimed to be an Indigenous Australian Dreamtime legend, but a wee bit of internet research has told me it might just be a story made up in the 1920s to add tourism interest to the place. Nonetheless, it's great area for taking a walk and the path meanders from viewpoint to viewpoint.
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