Jenolan Holiday Park

Where to start? Perhaps with a day trip out on hiking and biking trails through eucalyptus forests in the spectacular Blue Mountains National Park (around an hour’s drive). Here you can also clamber up to Cahill’s Lookout observation point for dramatic views over sandstone escarpments and take the Scenic Skyway cable car for bird’s-eye glimpses of Katoomba Falls and the Three Sisters rock pinnacles. If you don’t want to stir so far from home base, you can cycle the circular Boyd River Loop in Kanangra-Boyd National Park (20 minutes) and take selfies with a backdrop of the sheer Kanangra Walls as they rise above Kanangra Creek. More spectacular rock formations are found in Evans Crown Nature Reserve (half an hour), where you can walk or cycle to towering granite boulders sacred to several Aboriginal peoples. And the natural wonders just keep on coming – this time underground. Grab a pair of sturdy boots and take a guided walking tour of the millennia-old stalactites and stalagmites in the subterranean complex at Jenolan Caves (half an hour).