this stunning national park is just a 90-minute drive (or a 2-hour train ride) from the cosmopolitan metropolis of Sydney.

Just a couple of hours’ train ride west of Sydney ... Blue Mountains region takes in extraordinary ecological diversity – including every major eucalyptus group and the prehistoric Wollemi pine – ...

Plans to build a multi-million-dollar wildlife park in the Blue Mountains have been revived, despite council opposing the project, saying visitors want to see animals in the wild, not in a "zoo".