Sydney: Blue Mountains Steam Train Mercedes Sprinter Tour

Ride a restored 1869 steam train through the Blue Mountains, then spend the whole afternoon walking the escarpment at Echo Point. Mercedes-Benz Sprinter, hotel pickup, English-speaking guide.
Head west from Sydney for a day that runs the Blue Mountains in the opposite order to everyone else — the railway first thing, the famous lookout last, once the morning tour traffic has moved through.

Your English-speaking driver-guide collects you from your central Sydney hotel at 7:30am, so the day doesn't start with a walk to a bus bay in the dark. You'll travel in a Mercedes-Benz Sprinter — a van, not a full-size coach.

By mid-morning you reach Clarence and board the Zig Zag Railway. Opened in 1869, this line switchbacked trains down the western escarpment through hand-cut sandstone cuttings until it was bypassed and abandoned in 1910. Volunteers spent decades bringing it back, and after eleven years out of service, steam returned to the rails in 2023. You'll ride it for 45 minutes through the mountain valleys, at the pace it was built for.

Lunch is an hour in Leura, a village of hedged gardens, bookshops, galleries and cafes strung along one tree-lined street. Long enough to eat somewhere you picked yourself rather than somewhere you were delivered to.

Then the whole afternoon belongs to the escarpment. You'll have time at Echo Point for the Three Sisters, and then, while most day tours are already driving home, close to two hours walking in the World Heritage Blue Mountains National Park on the trails below the lookout, where the crowds thin out and it's just sandstone, gum trees and a very long view. If you would rather not walk, the lookouts and the village are yours instead.

The group meets back at Echo Point and leaves the mountains by 4pm, putting you back in the city around 5:30pm.

No shopping stops. No detours. Just the mountains.

Para garantizar la disponibilidad de la reserva lo antes posible. Vale la pena reservar con antelación, especialmente si planeas el viaje durante la temporada alta, como los días festivos o los fines de semana.

Esta excursión se puede cancelar sin costo alguno hasta :tiempo de cancelación horas antes del inicio del viaje. Si lo cancela después de 24 horas o no se presenta en la excursión, se le cobrará el precio total de la actividad. El retraso en la recogida o en la salida se considerará como no presentarse.