3 About to head off to the Giant Stairway walk. Construction of it begain in 1916 and completed in 1932.
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11 The Giant Stairway provides a spectacular entry to the Jamison Valley, descending approximately 300 metres (1000 feet), via more than 800 steps and runways.
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24 The Three Sisters are 922, 918 & 906 metres (3024, 3011 & 92971 feet) in height, respectively.
25 The Aboriginal dream-time legend has it that three sisters, 'Meehni', 'Wimlah' and Gunnedoo' lived in the Jamison Valley as members of the Katoomba tribe.
26 These beautiful young ladies had fallen in love with three brothers from the Nepean tribe, yet tribal law forbade them to marry.
27 The brothers were not happy to accept this law and so decided to use force to capture the three sisters causing a major tribal battle.
28 As the lives of the three sisters were seriously in danger, a witchdoctor from the Katoomba tribe took it upon himself to turn the three sisters into stone to protect them from any harm.
29 While he had intended to reverse the spell when the battle was over, the witchdoctor himself was killed.
30 As only he could reverse the spell to return the ladies to their former beauty, the sisters remain in their magnificent rock formation as a reminder of this battle for generations to come.
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39 Great.....now you want to get the bloddy map out Jungle??? ;-)
