Top Blue Mountains Wildlife Encounters

Experience the wonder of the wilderness on this full-day private Blue Mountains tour from Sydney. Leave the city lights far behind as you journey into the lush valleys, waterfalls, gorges, mountains, and forests that have shaped life here for tens of thousands of years. You can also opt to add on a visit to Featherdale Wildlife Park or swing by Scenic World and take a trip on the cable car.

Marvel at the Southern Hemisphere night sky with this stargazing experience. Your guide is an astrophysicist with over ten years’ experience. You will learn how to identify constellations with the naked eye and how to use a professional-grade telescope. Depending on the night and time of year, you might see craters on the Moon, Mars, Venus, Saturn’s rings, Jupiter’s moons, the Orion Nebula, and much more.

The Blue Mountains is a beautiful area to explore but if you want to get up close and embark upon a real adventure, book this guided abseiling and canyon tour. The first half of the day is spent abseiling, beginning with small cliffs and building up to those more challenging ones. After an included lunch walk to the start of the canyon, wade into a creek, and jump into a rock pool. After some exhilarating water jumps and swims, abseil out of the canyon and into the rock pool below.

The towering peaks of the Three Sisters are among the most photographed sites in the Blue Mountains. With this tour, hop aboard a Chopper 4 trike and zip along the mountain roads in your unique form of transport. Escape the crowds to stop at quiet lookout points, admire the views from Govetts Leap, and spot the Three Sisters and Bridal Veil Falls.

Get wild with the night owls as we explore the world of Wollemi National Park's nocturnal wildlife by spotlight! Did you know that the Bare-nosed Wombat’s droppings (scats) are square shaped? And that the Sugar Glider can glide up to ninety meters from one tree to the next? Join us on this fully guiding walking tour through Newnes and Petries Gully as we spotlight for Red-necked Wallabies, Eastern Grey Kangaroos, Southern Boobook Owls and Bare-nosed Wombats. You can even get involved in our regular citizen science projects surveying Wollemi’s truly unique and diverse wildlife. At Wolgan Valley Eco Tours we believe that walking is a great way to explore the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area. Our small group sizes, personalised service and experienced local guide offers guests a greater opportunity to experience and learn more about the history, ecology, flora and fauna, climate and geology that make this landscape unique.

You'll learn the unique attributes of what makes truffle one the most sought after and expensive culinary ingredients in the world. Enjoy tasting dishes that enhance the aromatic properties of truffles. You'll discover our growing techniques and how we teach our dogs to detect the truffles under the soil. Truffle pairs very well with a number of foods especially foods rich in fats so our tastings will include gluten, dairy, eggs and nuts.