Katoomba, Australia Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

KATOOMBA , the biggest town in the Blue Mountains and the area's commercial heart, is also the best located for the major sights of Echo Point and the Three Sisters. It has a lively café culture on the main drag, Katoomba Street , which runs downhill from the train station; the street is also full of vintage and retro clothes, secondhand bookstores, antique dealers and giftshops. When the town was first discovered by fashionable city dwellers in the late nineteenth century, the grandiose Carrington Hotel prominently located at the top of Katoomba Street, was the height of elegance (an in-house historian … more »