The Greater Blue Mountains are surrounded by lookouts that allow you to see in all its splendor and from different angles the magnificent, rugged, and endless extension of its natural beauty.
Ever-changing scenery depending on the different seasons of the year, the weather, the time of day, the climatic effects, but always in the constant company of a deep silence and breathing comforting fresh air.
Ancient forests, valleys, rivers, canyons, freshwater springs that through the years sprout incessantly forming magnificent waterfalls, which nourish its intricate nature that looks completely fresh and full of life despite the droughts and fires that characterize this area.
Many of these lookouts are located in Katoomba, Leura, Wentworth Falls, Megalong Valley, Jenolan Caves, Mt Tomah Botanic Gardens, Grose Valley and many other places that would make an endless list of observation sites.
It is the lookout that allows you to observe more closely the famous Three Sisters.
The Three Sisters are part of one of many local Aboriginal legends.
Legend has it that at this Echo Point site, inhabited a family made up of the father, an elderly sage named Tyawan and his three daughters Meehni, Wimlah and Gunnedoo.
Wanting to protect his daughters, Tyawan found a cave in the summit of the mountain protected by a large rock, so he decided to establish his home in this place that allowed him to leave the girls safe while he went to work.
One day when leaving for work, on his way the old man said goodbye in the distance and the girls jumping, also said goodbye; with the bad luck that one of them rolled a rock which in its fall dragged other stones producing a deafening noise that woke up the Bunyip, the great monster who lived in the deep valley.
Furious the Bunyip pounced to devour the girls, but Tyawan took out of his backpack the magic bone and turned the three sisters into rocks, then the Bunyip threw himself on the elderly man to devour him, but this time the old man pointed the magic bone towards himself and turned into a small bird that escaped flying through a small slit in the rock.
Patiently the bird waited until everything was quiet to get out of the hiding place and thus return his daughters to life, but he realized that in his escape flight he had lost the magic bone and with it all his hope.
Thanks to this tragic incident, even today, through the passing of time we can see The Three Sisters in all their splendour.
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