The Three Sisters: New South Wales Most Iconic Landmarks

The Three Sisters is the Blue Mountains actually a most remarkable landmark. This iconic place is a huge attraction by millions of people each year, which is actually an unusual rock formation representing three sisters who according to Aboriginal legend were turned to stone. The Three Sisters are located New South Wales, Australia, on the north escarpment of the Jamison Valley. They’re adjacent to the town of Katoomba and are one of the Blue Mountains' best recognized sites, towering above the Jamison Valley. Their names are Meehni (922 meters), Wimlah (918 meters), and Gunnedoo (906 meters). Therefore the part of the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area, these weathered sandstone peaks, formed over thousands of years, and visitors may have best views are from the Echo Point at Katoomba.

Moreover Echo Point is also the gateway to numerous great nature walks and adventures such as abseiling, rockclimbing and caving, and soaks up the scenery, streams, waterfalls, forests, ravines and sheer cliffs on one of the 140 kilometers of heritage walking tracks throughout the region. It is well believed, that three Sisters were unusual formation is formed by land erosion. The soft sandstone of the Blue Mountains is easily eroded over time by wind, rain and rivers, causing the cliffs surrounding the Jamison Valley to be slowly broken up. The commonly told legend of the Three Sisters is that three sisters lived in the Jamison Valley as members of the Katoomba tribe.

The beautiful young ladies fell in love with three men from a neighboring Nepean tribe, but marriage was not allowed by tribal law. The three brothers were not happy to admit this law and then they decided to use force to capture the three sisters. A major tribal battle ensued, and the sisters were turned to stone by an elder to protect them, but he was killed in the fighting and no one else could turn them back.

This legend is claimed to be an Indigenous Australian Dreamtime legend. As the lives of the three sisters were seriously in danger however, Dr Martin Thomas, in his work "The artificial horizon imagining the Blue Mountains", visibly shows that the "aboriginal" legend is a fabrication shaped by a non-Aboriginal Katoomba local, Mel Ward, seemingly to add interest to a local landmark. Therefore the story initiated in the late 1920s or early 1930s and is unidentified prior to that date.

The Aboriginal traditional owners, the Gundungurra, have a legend that includes the Sisters rock formation. From nearby Echo Point, a bushwalking trail leads to the Three Sisters and down to the valley floor via more than 800 well-maintained steel and stone steps called "The Giant Stairway". Then a one and half hour walk on The Federal Pass trail leads to the base of Katoomba Falls and the Katoomba Picturesque Railway. Walkers who don't want to climb back to the top can take the Beautiful Railway back to the plateau for a fee. The character of the three isters ups and downs throughout the day & seasons as the sunlight brings out the wonderful colors.  Because the Three Sisters is also floodlit until around 11pm each evening looking simply remarkable set against the black background of the night sky.

Batura Muztagh is Ultra peak of 7,388 meter in Pakistan

Batura Muztagh is Ultra peak of 7,388 meter, and a sub-range of the Karakoram Range in Hunza Valley, GB Pakistan. It is ranked 70th highest peak of world and 31st highest peak in Pakistan.  Moreover Ultar Sar is the southeastern most foremost peak of the Batura Muztagh, a sub range of the Karakoram range. It lies about ten kilometers northeast of the Karimabad, a town on the Karakoram Highway in the Hunza Valley, part of the Gilgit District of Gilgit–Baltistan, Pakistan. Batura Muztagh has notable features and climbing history. 

Though it is not one of the highest peaks of the Karakoram, Ultar Sar is notable for its exciting rise above local terrain. Its south flank rises over 17,388 feet above the Hunza River near Karimabad, in only about 10 km of horizontal distance. Combined with its strategic position at the end of the Batura Muztagh, with the Hunza River bending around it, this makes Ultar a visually striking peak.

Ultar Sar also gained fame in the 1990s as supposedly the world's highest unclimbed independent peak. This was improper, as Gangkhar Puensum in Bhutan is higher, and remains unclimbed in 2007. Moreover; two other higher peaks are also reputedly unclimbed and of independent stature. However that perception did increase to the appeal of the peak, and a numeral of expeditions attempted to climb it. Therefore during the 1980s and 1990s over 15 expeditions made attempts, resulting in no success, but in a number of fatalities; the peak proved to be quite tough.

The first two ascents were made in July 1996 by two separate Japanese expeditions, the first from the Tokai section of the Japanese Alpine Club led by Akito Yamazaki who summited, but unluckily died on the descent and the second led by Ken Takahashi. The first summit team consists of Yamazaki and Kiyoshi Matsuoka who also died one year later on the adjacent peak Bublimotin. They climbed the peak from the southwest in alpine style, doing much of the climbing at night to evade danger from falling rock and ice. After their successful summit, they faced strong storms and bivouaced several days without food before returning to basecamp.

Nevertheless, Akihito Yamazaki died at basecamp of an internal disease due to the relentless stress of climbing. The 2nd summit team comprised Takahashi and 4 others: Masayuki Ando, Ryushi Hoshino, Wataru Saito, and Nobuo Tsutsumi. They climbed the south ridge. Then after 1996, there have been no recorded ascents of the peak.

Dunn River Falls Jamaica

The Dunn's River Falls is one of the best natural treasures in Jamaica. Cascading water sparkles in the Jamaican sunlight and is fenced by lush, tropical plants and trees. What makes Jamaica Dunn's River Falls so wonderful? The moving water, very rich in natural minerals created steps down the length of the river, giving the Dunn's River Falls a distinctive shape. Few of these terraces are so wide that small lagoons have actually formed; generating pockets of sapphire water. It is one of the most lovely tourist attractions in summer due to its natural Jacuzzi. This is great spa town located in Tuscany in north-central Italy that has been populated since ancient times. It lies approximately 23 miles northeast of Orbetello and the coast. 

Well, adjacent to the village, 800 liters per second of sulphurous water at 37 °C gushes over a waterfall and down into a cascade of natural pools formed by the deposition of calcareous rock from evaporation of the water. Dunn’s River Falls are mainly fed by spring water, which is rich with calcium carbonate and is depositing travertine. This type of waterfalls is described by geologists as "a living phenomenon" because they’re incessantly rebuilt by the sediments in spring water. Dunn's River Falls is one of the very uncommon travertine waterfalls in the world that empties directly into the sea.

Well, climbing the waterfalls is a widespread tourist activity and is often, but not exclusively, performed with the help of tour guides from the park. It takes about one and half hours to climb with short breaks for photos and video recordings taken by the guides. The falls are bordered by lush, green vegetation that shades the area from the sun and saves the area, and climbers, cool. The climb can be comparatively tough so is often undertaken as a hand-holding human chain led by a guide to make it easier.