Share these experiences with your family.  In holiday times, we schedule many extra tours. 

1. April 14 to 17, 2014
2. Easter Long Weekend
3. April 22 to 26, 2014 (including ANZAC Day)

For all ages, there are tours of spectacular show caves, adventure tours and bushwalks. Don't forget our children's tours. For grownups and older kids, there is our NEW 'Fossils Unearthed' tour and a fascinating tour EVERY night, such as the intriguing 'Legends, Mysteries & Ghosts'.  

Our cafe serves light lunches, snacks and drinks.  Enjoy a delicious dinner at Chisholm's Restaurant. Stay the night - we have options for all budgets.

www.jenolancaves.org.au/holiday-time/?sdid=5

To tour the massive Devils' Coach House Cave and the Nettle Cave, you follow a trail using a digital handset developed by Acoustiguide.  Hear as much as you choose. Explore at your own pace.  This 'twilight' cave features huge open caverns - great for those who avoid enclosed spaces.

Hear the commentary in your language.  There is also a lively commentary for kids.  You can even choose an Aboriginal Culture commentary. Remember to make time to do this self-guided tour before, after or between your guided tours.

www.jenolancaves.org.au/the-caves/selfguided-audio-tour/

Wearing a helmet and headlamp, explore seldom-seen, off-track areas, to see the bones of extinct animals. Find the limestone invertebrates that help make up our bedrock in the remote parts of the show cave system. Your trained guide will interpret these fossils and bones, revealing their timeless secrets on an amazing subterranean quest.

The new tour will run twice daily, on 9 days only, during the April NSW school holidays.

FossilsUnearthedPostersmallfilesize.pdf
www.jenolancaves.org.au/the-caves/fossils-unearthed/

1. An overnight stay is your recovery time, after a day of discovery.
2. Don't risk nodding off behind the wheel or hitting wildlife, in the dark.
3. Use our bush tracks to spot nocturnal native animals!  
4. Evening cave tours run from 8 to 10 pm. 
5. We offer accommodation for all needs & budgets.
6. It is a unique experience to stay in our historic hotel, Jenolan Caves House.

www.jenolancaves.org.au/accommodation/

To enter, you don't have to be a photographer. It's easy! If you are over 18, find a photo from your trip to Jenolan Caves. You must own it. It should be your own work. It could be a shot of a cave, Caves House, wildlife, birds, your wedding, anything! Ask your friends to vote for it online. The photo with the most votes by May 31, 2014 wins.

WINAGOPROCAMERA.pdf
www.photos.jenolancaves.org.au/

If you would like to give a cave tour, we will send a voucher to you, for a specific activity. If you would like to give an overnight stay, magnificent dinner or gift shop item, we will send a voucher to you, for a monetary value.

If you ring 1300 76 33 11, we can take your credit card details over the phone.

www.jenolancaves.org.au/your-gift-solution-is-here/

With so many tours, bushwalks and sometimes even underground concerts, it is possible to spend a whole week here and not do the same tour or bushwalk twice. Choose from a wide range of accommodation, and have a thorough escape from the world.  Enjoy fresh mountain air, good food, wine, exercise, adventure and maybe even romance!

www.jenolancaves.org.au/accommodation/weekend-getaways/

Instagram is a free, fun and quirky way to share your life with friends through pictures.   

Our Instagram page is so bright and colourful that you might need to put on your sunnies first!  If you have not already registered on Instagram, you should do so.  Then, on our Instagram page, click 'Follow'.  That way you will never run out of beautiful photos to inspire you.

instagram.com/jenolancaves

Facebook is great for family and friends, jokes and photos. But LinkedIn is a knowledge base, where professionals share information. It provides hundreds of Internet articles about the things that interest you most. You will never run out of reading material. LinkedIn is useful for job hunting too.

Our new LinkedIn page contains articles that relate to things such as new imaging techniques, native fauna, cave exploration, fitness & more. Please 'Follow' us.

www.linkedin.com/company/jenolan-caves-reserve-trust

This month, we feature Printhies Wines, from Orange. Amongst many delicious wines, we serve a dry Riesling and a fine Merlot from our Printhies selection.

Printhies is a family run vineyard and winery, located in Australia's highest altitude wine growing area. Cool climate wines often show more green, herbaceous flavors and more earthy or mineral-like character mixed in with the fruitiness. Their flavors unfold over the years, as they mature.

www.jenolancaves.org.au/dining/chisolms-restaurant/wine-menu/

They sett up sophisticated sound and imaging equipment and detected a wealth of EVPs (electronic voice phenomena) - voices, singing, footsteps, rustling of clothing, doors closing, etc.

We hope that the complete episode will air later this year. But in the mean time, they have made a 'teaser' for the episode, which you can enjoy on YouTube.

Keep an eye out for the program on TV.

Featuring pipes, harp, fiddle, vocals, guitar, bodhrán, whistles, piano accordion and even the French horn, Taliska are not to be missed!  They have a knack for captivating audiences, weaving musical magic, by combining stunning fiddle playing, the refined and inspiring sounds of the pipes, stirring vocals and harmonies, beautiful harp & driven guitar playing. Experience their music deep underground in the Cathedral Chamber of the Lucas Cave.

www.jenolancaves.org.au/deep-underground-experience-a-touch-of-scotland-with-taliska/?sdid=80

Yulefest (Christmas in July) is an annual Blue Mountains tradition. At historic Jenolan Caves House, grownups enjoy the feeling of Christmas, and children meet Santa inside one of the famous caves. Caves House guests enjoy log fires and huge Christmas tree. Saturday and Wednesday nights throughout July, Chisolm’s Restaurant serves festive fare.

www.jenolancaves.org.au/yulefest-christmas-in-july/?sdid=71

Drive from Sydney to the western edge of the Blue Mountains World Heritage Area and back.  Travel through small towns and historic villages.  Experience native wildlife, Aboriginal culture, amazing views and world-class gardens.  Enjoy cafes, restaurants, pubs and galleries.  Stay at Jenolan Caves.

www.jenolancaves.org.au/visitor-info/exciting-selfdrive-itineraries/

Download Scenic World's new app from iTunes to your iPhone.  The app offers rewards from several major Blue Mountains tourist attractions, including Jenolan Caves, Featherdale Wildlife Park, Norman Lindsay Gallery and more.  You redeem 'rewards' over several visits.

www.jenolancaves.org.au/visitor-info/specials/blue-mountains-app-discounts/

The wonderful Blue Mountains Bus Company has been bringing visitors to Jenolan Caves for many years, making life easier for travellers!

Note that they have changed their timetable.  From Sydney's Central Station, at 8:20 am, catch a train to Katoomba. In Katoomba, get on a Blue Mountains Bus Company coach at 10:35 am. The coach returns you to Katoomba at 5pm.

To book your seat, contact +61 2 4782 7999

www.trolleytours.com.au/jenolan-caves-tours

In those days, before Caves House, evidently the upside of staying in a shack at Jenolan was that you could stick your rifle out between the timber slabs and shoot wallabies by moonlight!  But the writer was not equally excited by the prospect of salted horse for dinner.  So when a temping (?) tin of lambs tongues was stolen by a tiger quoll and dropped into the depths of a cave, he got in 'A Tight Fix' trying to retrieve it. Not my idea of a holiday, but those were the bad old days!  You must read the article - click the link below.

trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/page/5241248