Tread Lightly Eco Tours

Tread Lightly Eco Tours

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Nature and wildlife
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Walking and Biking Tours
  • Aboriginal Culture
  • Adventure

Highlights

  • Explore ancient rainforests and deep gorges in the Blue Mountains, immersing yourself in breathtaking natural beauty.
  • Savour locally baked treats while enjoying breakfast with wild kangaroos, creating unforgettable wildlife encounters.
  • Wander through stunning landscapes on guided bush walks, experiencing the rich Aboriginal culture and history of the region.
  • Discover spectacular waterfalls and panoramic views, guided by experts with over 30 years of local knowledge.
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Tread Lightly Eco Tours operates an award winning and advanced ecotourism accredited guiding company in the Blue Mountains World Heritage National Park.

Fully licensed with National Parks and Wildlife Service, professional interpretive guides with 30 years experience locally help your guests experience the very best of the Blue Mountains World Heritage National Park. With R.O.C. accreditation (Respect Our Culture) and we would like to acknowledge the traditional custodians and elders past and present through the multiple languages of the Blue Mountains region.

Providing unique fully guided bush walks and sustainable four wheel drive eco tours which specialise in the environmental and the cultural aspects of the Blue Mountains. Exploring a sensory experience in the natural environment through nature base touring in ancient rainforests, deep gorges, huge waterfalls and fantastic panoramic views with Tread Lightly Eco Tours. Experience places where locals play.

Guided ecological bush walks range from two to eight hours and cover the most spectacular scenery in the Blue Mountains. Explore rainforests, wander past huge waterfalls, discover enduring Aboriginal culture and view magnificent old growth forests, sustainability and fire ecology.

Tread Lightly eco tours have been inducted into the Ecotourism Australia Hall of Fame with over 20 years of the highest quality sustainable and minimal impact carbon reduced touring in the World Heritage Blue Mountains. Acknowledging the sensitivity of the environment, country and culture.

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Valley of the Waters Hiking Tour

Valley of the Waters Hiking Tour

Bush walk the Blue Mountains World Heritage National Park, All tours are fully tailored and private with qualified eco guides. See two 1,400 foot waterfalls as a focus of this trail with your professional ecological guide to accentuate the unique aspects of the deep descent walk.

Explore a half or full day hike at Wentworth Falls, the first descent is the Valley of the Waters, which allows for a high fitness level on kilometres of different trails. Every turn opens a new and exciting photographic window and a new experience in the ancient landscape. Fauna and flora are abundant and flowers are all year round.

Explore the towering Sandstone escarpments, before hiking below ancient rainforest and tall eucalyptus forest. Reaching the pinnacle of the walk is the 1,400 foot Wentworth Falls waterfall and lunch in a cave. Follow in the footsteps of Charles Darwin along the top of the Kedumba valley rim and Jamison Creek to Weeping Rock.

Grand Canyon Bush Walk at Blackheath

Grand Canyon Bush Walk at Blackheath

One of the Blue Mountains World Heritage areas signature walks in a deep canyon environment. This walk has lots of steps; walk distance is six kilometres with some creek walking in the deep canyon.

Walk behind waterfalls through beautiful rock over hangs with consistent Aboriginal culture and heritage. The tour takes five or eight hours and is suitable for medium grade fitness client.

This walk is tailor-made and can be adapted to your total needs and an exclusive tour. It can be extended to take in a full day Grose wilderness rim hiking with a gourmet lunch in the wilderness. This walk can be supplied as a short night activity to maximise wildlife, astronomy and glow worm spotting.

Rocks to Rainforest Eco Tour

Rocks to Rainforest Eco Tour

The Rocks to Rainforest eco tour is an amazing opportunity to get away from the typical tourist areas and explore the wilderness with a local ecological guide, resident over 60 years in the Blue Mountains. This tour visits the high remote peaks before descending 800 metres to the valley floor and rainforest gullies. Also offering wine in the wilderness tours to local vineyards and Heli eco touring. (arrival and departure only)

Explore the vast escarpments of the Blue Mountains wilderness and increase your understanding of ancient ecology, visit Kanangra Walls and Jenolan Caves when available.

Tour includes short easy walks and is tailor made to suit your needs with amazing photographic destinations, wildlife, waterfalls and tranquil vistas.

Tour includes luxury 4wd vehicle in the wilderness and a gourmet picnic on some tours.

Rendezvous with a Kangaroo eco tours

Rendezvous with a Kangaroo eco tours

Visit remote wilderness and have Danish pastries, tea and coffee with fresh baked local produce while sitting amongst wild kangaroos.

This tour takes on an early morning wildlife expedition to have breakfast with wild kangaroos on the edge of the Wild Dog Mountains, where you can get great close up photography of wallabies, wild birds and kangaroos in their natural habitat.

Watch sunrise over the Three Sisters and the Kedumba Valley, see dawn engulf the Megalong Valley and if conditions are right the Phantom Falls, an amazing natural phenomenon of mist emptying one valley to fill the next.

This is a rare and exciting look at the World Heritage listed Blue Mountains very few people get to see.

Accreditations

  • Climate Action Business Certified by Ecotourism Australia
  • ECO Certified (Advanced Ecotourism) by Ecotourism Australia
  • Respecting Our Culture (ROC) Certified by Ecotourism Australia
  • Tour Guiding Association

Memberships

  • Campervan Motorhome Club of Australia
  • New South Wales Business Chamber
  • Regional Tourist/Tourism Association/Organisation
  • Visitor Information Centre

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