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Blue Mountains & Hunter Valley 3 day Experience
Featuring:
- Breakfast at Featherdale Wildlife Park
- Blue Mountains Highlights
- Lilianfels Blue Mountains
- Wollemi National Park
- Hunter Valley Wineries
- Aboriginal Rock Paintings
- Peppers Guest House
7.00am Commence hotel pickup. Departing the city, we arrive at our breakfast location, Featherdale Wildlife Park where we enjoy a along continental breakfast consisting of fresh croissants, bread rolls, cheese, spreads, fresh fruits, juice tea/coffee in a special environment free of other tourists. After breakfast we enjoy meeting Australian animals including kangaroos, koalas, emus, wombats, dingos and more without other tourists.
We then depart the Park as it opens to regular visitors and travel to the Blue Mountains - we ascend Bells Line of Road and pause at Bilpin, citrus region of Sydney and this is a chance to purchase fresh fruit from the gardens.
Leaving here we continue past Tomah Botanic Gardens and further up the mountains for a stop at Mt Banks. Here we have a short nature walk where the native flora is described in an informative and interesting manner and we see wonderful Blue Mts valley and wall views.
From this point we cross the mountains to Mt Victoria and continue to Govetts Leap for magnificent Valley and waterfall views. Drive to see the views of Megalong Valley from amazing Narrowneck Plateau - hear our guide demonstrate a 'cooee call and echo'.
Lunch is then enjoyed at the recently renovated Carrington Hotel.
After lunch you will be delivered to Lilianfels Blue Mountains, where you will check into your overnight accommodation at this truly spectacular property overlooking the Blue Mountains canyons.
The afternoon is free for you to wander the many tracks that run through the mountains, relax in the grounds of your accommodation or take an optional tour. Dinner tonight is own expense.
Overnight; Lilianfels Blue Mountains - Valley View Room
Your guide will call at 0800 to collect you for the day - departing Katoomba we drive down the Great Western Highway to Springfield and travel through
the rural town of Richmond before turning north to travel alongside Wollemi National Park to Putty.
We visit a farm for Devonshire morning tea/coffee and scones and if time permits we enjoy a stop at Bulga to introduce the ancient Aboriginal Art located on private property - here a painting of the Spirit God Biame and other art is explained.
Next we enter the Hunter Valley wine areas and enjoy tastings at 3 fine boutique wineries and lunch at a vineyard café.
Your day finishes after lunch when we deliver you to Peppers Guest House.
The afternoon is yours to relax at the property or you may wish to tour some more wineries or enjoy other Hunter activities.
Overnight; Peppers Guest House, Hunter Valley - Vintage Room
After breakfast we transfer you to join The Hunter Valley Wine School which commences daily at 9.00am and is an informal tutorial of wine education.
Walk through the on site vineyard of 30 year old Shiraz vines and discuss matters viticultural. Then it’s off to the crusher and into the Winery to see the air bag presses, huge tanks, the Potter Fermenters, the filtration equipment, and the largest Rotovats in the Hunter.
From there, the tour then moves through into the Oak Cask maturation area, and on into the Wine Tasting Cellars. An informal wine tutorial and tasting follows. On
completion of the wine school you return to Peppers Guest House for check out then at 2.00pm you join 2 more wine tastings and return on the freeway
to Sydney for approximately 5.30pm arrival.
Great care is taken to ensure any guides selected to lead our tours have an extensive knowledge of flora and fauna species, features of the areas we visit and the recent and ancient history of the regions. Guides are also Senior First Aid Qualified.
Our vehicles are the most comfortable and safe touring vehicles of their size and carry between 4 - 14 passengers.
Standard features include air-conditioning, cloth covered seats, carpet and music system. We also have first aid kit, telephone, library of flora and fauna and binoculars.
Every Sunday - Wednesday with minimum 2 guests subject to availability.
Return hotel transfers
Continental Breakfast and Wildlife Park Admission
Blue Mountains Touring
Platter style 2 course lunch
1 night Valley View Room
Lilianfels Blue Mountains
1 night Peppers Guest House
Hunter Valley Wine Tastings
3 x continental breakfasts
2 x lunch
Hunter Resort Wine School with transfers and all touring as per itinerary.
Call our reservations team on 0845 4582868 to book this tour and other similar tours of the New South Wales area.
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Call us on 0870 1999 038 for further details
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