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Exploring Australia: Up on a cable-car roof amid mountains, oyster feast and good times everywhere

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ST Travel Editor Lee Siew Hua travels to Sydney, the Blue Mountains, and the Central Coast to see what the south-east of Australia has to offer.

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SYDNEY – Australia is always new for travel lovers. That becomes thrillingly real when I stand on the roof of a cable car, high above the eucalyptus forest below.

Safely harnessed, I admire the 360-degree vistas of endless mountains. Super-fine mist swirls up from the valley floor 270m below.

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