Up fairly early to get to Jenolan Caves for a 10 am start. We had spent last night studing up the very complex timetable they had, and various ticketing options, and though we were sorted. Of course got there and found it was not the same as we expected and some of the tours we wanted to do were booked out. Unfortunately the staff were not particularly helpful at helping us, so a bit more replaning and we prepared to visit one of the caves.

Maybe we have been a bit spoilt with what we have seen around the country, as we have seen a couple of other caves, but I would have to say, the caves were a bit of a disappointment. We thought maybe the tour we choose was not a good one, but on speaking to the staff it seems we saw one of the best caves they have! It was still worth seeing but certainly not what I would call spectactular.

After we had a bar lunch, which seemed the best of the very few options available, we did the free included tour, which was OK.

One other thing, the drive in is very windy and steep, from Oberon, thankfully no caravan (none allowed either), and once you leave the otherway also windy but not so steep to get back out of the valley the caves are in. Very pretty drive both ways.

One thing that was rather cool was the road goes through one of the caves, they said it is on the only major road/ highway through a natural cave in the world ...