Beyond Borders Experiences runs private Blue Mountains days from Sydney — one group, one guide, one luxury vehicle, door to door.

At Featherdale Wildlife Park you get close enough to touch a koala, and go home with a printed photograph of you beside one. Feed kangaroos and wallabies from your hand. Ride all four Scenic World attractions — Railway, Skyway, Cableway and Walkway — above and below the Jamison Valley. Stand at Echo Point before the Three Sisters, and look west over the Megalong Valley from Cahill's Lookout, in a UNESCO World Heritage landscape.

Every ticket is already paid, including all four Scenic World rides, which many tours leave as an extra. The only thing you pay for on the day is lunch.

Time is included too. Nealy two hours at Featherdale, where a coach allows forty minutes. Two and a half hours at Scenic World, where a coach allows ninety minutes.

If cloud sits in the valley, we wait it out and come back.

Collected at nine, back at your hotel by six.