Back in February, the CSIRO announced the development of an 'interactive online environment' to help school students learn about the natural world.

Well, now 3P Learning is trialing the Jenolan Caves Investigation Program. They need schools to participate.  Your school can be an IntoScience Pilot School.  

The Jenolan Caves Investigation Program is a string of activities which students complete as they make their way around the virtual cave system. Their primary goal is to discover how the caves have formed, but many avenues of investigation are open to the students, such as classifying local animals, discovering important artefacts from the cave’s history and learning about the crystal formations found in the caves.

Click here, to find out more, and register for the pilot program.

It will be Australia's biggest virtual school excursion - National Science Week's biggest online learning event!  

We hope this online teaching tool will inspire school groups to visit Jenolan to see the real thing.

Don't leave it too late to book for the school holidays (Sept 19 to Oct 5) and Labour Day long weekend (Oct 5-7).

We offer fully serviced guestrooms, self-catered backpacker rooms, and even self-contained cottages - all great for families!  We have rooms for all needs and budgets.  See our full range.

For lunches, there is our convenient cafe. For dinner, we have bar meals and the magnificent Chisolm's Restaurant.  We also have picnic areas adjacent to each car park, with gas barbeques.

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We have activities for people of all ages - many tours of spectacular show caves, adventure tours, night tours, children's tours and new Fossils Unearthed tours. For before, after and between cave tours, remember our self-guided cave tour and our new self-guided bushwalks.  You can stay at Jenolan for a whole week and not do the same activity twice.

Three of our trails are underground.  There is an adult's and children's self-guided tour, which takes you through the Grand Arch, Devil's Coach House Cave, and the Nettle Cave. With the adult's version, you can choose from several major languages. Or you can choose a local Aboriginal culture version, which follows the same path.

Three longer walking trails take you on journeys above ground, exploring the rock formations, valley and river systems.

You can enjoy the app wherever you are.  But, it is best used at Jenolan Caves, to help you get the most out of our bush walking trails.

www.jenolancaves.org.au/visitor-info/iphone-apps/

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.

This tour runs on selected dates only.  Check our timetable.

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

Many years in the making, Mayfield is one of the world’s largest privately owned cool climate gardens. Owned by the Hawkins family, Mayfield Garden extends across more than 160 acres (64 hectares). Numerous follies and features are blended into the landscape: a breath-taking 80 metre cascade, a walled kitchen garden; a stunning Water Garden; aviary, chapel, rose garden, Islamic style pond and much, much more.

For the past several years, Mayfield has been open to the public twice a year only.  But from September 27, it will be open year round. 

While staying at Jenolan, take a day trip to Mayfield!  It is stunning.

www.mayfieldgarden.com.au/

If you don't have a car, try this happy alternative to driving - the ideal way for couples and families to see Jenolan plus the sights of the Blue Mountains along the way.  Wachtl offers all the following:

• Service all year round, 24/7
• Private touring
• Luxury air conditioned Mercedes mini buses, with extra leg room & large windows
• Pick up at all hotels, airport or cruise terminals
• Flexible routes and destinations
• Tours in English, Czech or German
• Passionate, experienced and knowledgeable guides

For enquiries, please contact Wachtl direct on 0412 086 034.

www.wachtlaustralia.com.au/index_soubory/Page2414.htm

We run our intriguing 'Legends, Mysteries & Ghosts' tour (min. age 10) every Wednesday and Saturday night.  By torchlight, listen to stories of the unexplained, as you wander through the dark caves. 

Our 'Off the Track' tour runs on Tuesday evenings.  In the caves, by the light of your headlamp, you explore sections that are no longer on the tourist trail -places that time has forgotten!

On other evenings, we run extended tours of the Temple of Baal Cave and The Orient Cave and more.  Our night tours are an unforgettable to spend an evening, especially if you are staying the night.

www.jenolancaves.org.au/the-caves/night-tours/

This is about stepping outside your comfort zone. We've seen strong men panic and women cry. Actually, we hardly ever see that, although the experience is different for everyone.  We can say that all who emerge from the Plughole Adventure Caving experience know they've gained something - pride in what they can achieve!  Adventure Caving develops mind, body and spirit. The risks are real on this very different (yet fun) experience, so we mentor you every step of the way.  Our adventure guides are nationally accredited.  For many participants, it is a psychological journey, about mastering fears and helping others to do the same.  

Over the past 15 or so years, literally thousands of seemingly ordinary people have achieved the extraordinary on the Plughole Adventure.  If you are of average flexibility (and over 10 years old), give it a try! 

www.jenolancaves.org.au/the-caves/adventure-caving/plughole-adventure-tour/