A visit to the Jenolan Caves at Sydney is likely to be one of those events that remain etched in your memory for long after- not because of anything particularly special you see – but rather because of the rustic nature of the places the visit gives you access to, and the sheer length of the trip (and terrain) you have to take to make to get to the Jenolan Caves at Sydney.
As it turns out, a visit to Jenolan Caves gives you the opportunity to have a look at what lies in the vast Blue Mountains area of Sydney, and which remains a mystery to many visitors to the city. Indeed, it is more convenient to give a visit to the Jenolan Caves while staying at the Blue Mountains region rather than when staying in Sydney city proper – because it might be hard to travel all the way from Sydney city proper to Jenolan caves (at least a three hour journey), make a reasonable visit there –and still make it back to Sydney all in the same day. It can done, to be sure, but you could end up too tired to enjoy the trip or too hurried to make the most of your visit to the Jenolan caves.
When you finally make it to the Jenolan caves, however, you will be in for a great treat of the coldness, darkness and dampness that only a visit to a cave can offer. While walking inside the caves, watch your steps and ensure you are sure of where you are going because a wrong step at some spots could leave with a nasty hurt – and nearest hospital is a considerable distance away. This is not to discourage you from visiting the Jenolan caves however, because incidences in which people get hurt are very few indeed – and even when the (albeit rare accidents) do occur, there is always a medically trained staff member in the Jenolan caves house to give first aid – which might be all you need really.
And talking about the Jenolan Caves house – many people also find it (the house) quite an attraction worth savoring, even before they get deep into the caves. The great arch near the cave is a great attraction – and makes a great place to stroll under, and perhaps get a photograph of you taken under it. A photograph taken under Jenolan Cave’s Great Arch is likely to be one of those photographs that will always get people asking where it was that you took had the photo taken – because the place looks so mysterious, in a profoundly rustic way.
A visit to the Jenolan caves, as noted, gives you the opportunity to savor the remarkable splendor of Sydney’s Blue Mountains Region – with the range between them and into which the road that takes you to Jenolan Caves is quite literally engraved – because of the remarkably tricky terrain created by mountains. Legend has it, in fact, that the early British explorers to Australia had a really difficult time working out a route round the Blue mountains – and that it was not until they humbled themselves and took Aboriginal advice to take this route in the range between the mountains that they were finally able to conquer its terrain.
