VALLEY OF DIAMONDS

Once you see Koonin Lookout high above, there's a rocky gully to the right. If you keep walking and hit the pool you've gone too far. Scramble up the gully and follow the trail to Koonin Lookout and then the day trails all the way back.

Valley of Diamonds

Very Rough walk at the moment as Lantarna has taken over the creek. You would be very lucky to be able to follow the old track markers without tearing up legs and arms. I was surprised how easy it was to follow the track from the cascades to the start of Perserverence Creek. From there to Perserverence Dam was the tough challenge scrambling my way through Lantarna. However it looks as though this weed had been poisoned recently so maybe council is working on clearing the track again, which would be awesome.

I was blessed with someone who had built up a stone pyramid where the rock gully is to exit up to Koonin lookout otherwise this would be tough to spot. I give the advice of look for the lookout when you spot it start looking out to the right for that gully!

All in all a challenge but some nice views. With lantarna cleared this would be a really nice walk! It took me 7hrs and 3 litres of water.

The Legend of the Valley of Diamonds - The Beading Gem's Journal

I did this track in a quite warm day. If you don't know how to navigate have a gps and a map I don't recommend you to try this track.

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The instructions here described are not enough to find your way up to the damp and back to the car park. Basically everything looks the same. So references like follow this creek aren't really helpful. I'll do it again just more prepared. An amazing walk and one well worth doing. There are a few things I would have liked to know before I set out though.

Be ready for some serious rock hopping. Once you start following the river bed, it is all rock hopping.

Great fun, but it is not easy going. There is one exit out of the river on the right, via what is described as "distinct rocky gully". This is more like creak tributary that joins the main river. It is steep and is different to the rest of the rocks as they are round boulders not so much sandstone and granite like the rest of the gorge.

However, the infuriated parent rocs soon catch up with the vessel and destroy it by dropping giant boulders they have carried in their talons. Shipwrecked yet again, Sinbad is enslaved by the Old Man of the Sea , who rides on his shoulders with his legs twisted round Sinbad's neck and will not let go, riding him both day and night until Sinbad would welcome death.

Burton's footnote discusses possible origins for the old man—the orang-utan , the Greek god Triton —and favours the African custom of riding on slaves in this way. Eventually, Sinbad makes wine and tricks the Old Man into drinking some. Sinbad kills him after he has fallen off, and then he escapes. A ship carries him to the City of the Apes, a place whose inhabitants spend each night in boats off-shore, while their town is abandoned to man-eating apes. Yet through the apes Sinbad recoups his fortune, and so eventually finds a ship which takes him home once more to Baghdad. Sinbad is shipwrecked yet again, this time quite violently as his ship is dashed to pieces on tall cliffs.

There is no food to be had anywhere, and Sinbad's companions die of starvation until only he is left. He builds a raft and discovers a river running out of a cavern beneath the cliffs. The stream proves to be filled with precious stones and becomes apparent that the island's streams flow with ambergris. He falls asleep as he journeys through the darkness and awakens in the city of the king of Serendib Ceylon, Sri Lanka , "diamonds are in its rivers and pearls are in its valleys".

The king marvels at what Sinbad tells him of the great Haroun al-Rashid , and asks that he take a present back to Baghdad on his behalf, a cup carved from a single ruby, with other gifts including a bed made from the skin of the serpent that swallowed the elephant [a] "and whoso sitteth upon it never sickeneth" , and "a hundred thousand miskals of Sindh lign-aloesa", and a slave-girl "like a shining moon".

And so Sinbad returns to Baghdad, where the Caliph wonders greatly at the reports Sinbad gives of the land of Ceylon.

Sindbad in the Valley of Diamonds

The ever-restless Sinbad sets sail once more, with the usual result. Cast up on a desolate shore, he constructs a raft and floats down a nearby river to a great city. Here the chief of the merchants weds Sinbad to his daughter, names him his heir, and conveniently dies. The inhabitants of this city are transformed once a month into birds, and Sinbad has one of the bird-people carry him to the uppermost reaches of the sky, where he hears the angels glorifying God, "whereat I wondered and exclaimed, 'Praised be God!

Extolled be the perfection of God! The bird-people are angry with Sinbad and set him down on a mountain-top, where he meets two youths who are the servants of God and who give him a golden staff; returning to the city, Sinbad learns from his wife that the bird-men are devils, although she and her father are not of their number.

And so, at his wife's suggestion, Sinbad sells all his possessions and returns with her to Baghdad, where at last he resolves to live quietly in the enjoyment of his wealth, and to seek no more adventures. Burton includes a variant of the seventh tale, in which Haroun al-Rashid asks Sinbad to carry a return gift to the king of Serendib. Sinbad replies, "By Allah the Omnipotent, O my lord, I have taken a loathing to wayfare, and when I hear the words 'Voyage' or 'Travel,' my limbs tremble".

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He then tells the Caliph of his misfortune-filled voyages; Haroun agrees that with such a history "thou dost only right never even to talk of travel". Nevertheless, a command of the Caliph is not to be negated, and Sinbad sets forth on this, his uniquely diplomatic voyage. The king of Serendib is well pleased with the Caliph's gifts which include, among other things, the food tray of King Solomon and showers Sinbad with his favour.

On the return voyage the usual catastrophe strikes: Sinbad is captured and sold into slavery. His master sets him to shooting elephants with a bow and arrow, which he does until the king of the elephants carries him off to the elephants' graveyard. Sinbad's master is so pleased with the huge quantities of ivory in the graveyard that he sets Sinbad free, and Sinbad returns to Baghdad, rich with ivory and gold. I then entered my house and met my family and brethren: In some versions we return to the frame story, in which Sinbad the Porter may receive a final generous gift from Sinbad the Sailor.

In other versions the story cycle ends here, and there is no further mention of Sinbad the Porter. Sinbad's quasi-iconic status in Western culture has led to his name being recycled as are virtually all names for a wide range of uses in both serious and not-so-serious contexts, frequently with only a tenuous connection to the original tales. Many films, television series, animated cartoons, novels, and video games have been made, featuring Sinbad not as a merchant who happens to stumble into adventures, but as a dashing dare-devil adventure-seeker.

A pair of foreign films that had nothing to do with the Sinbad character were released in North America, with the hero being referred to as "Sinbad" in the dubbed soundtrack.

The Russian film Sadko based on Rimsky-Korsakov's opera Sadko was overdubbed and released in English in as The Magic Voyage of Sinbad , while the Japanese film Dai tozoku whose main character was a heroic pirate named Sukezaemon was overdubbed and released in English in as The Lost World of Sinbad. Media related to Sindbad at Wikimedia Commons. He finds the giant egg of the legendary Roc, a monstrous bird. Hoping to escape the place, he ties himself to the bird's leg when it sat on its egg.

The Roc afterwards flew to an impenetrable valley inhabited by giant snakes. It caught one of the serpents in its bill and flew away after Sinbad managed to untie himself. The valley floor was strewn with diamonds which Sinbad could not help but admire. He hid for time in a cave to stay safe from the snakes.

Later on huge chunks of greasy meat began landing in the valley thrown by merchants who had devised a way of getting the diamonds out. The diamonds would stick to the meat which were then carried out by strong eagles back to their nests. The merchants then helped themselves to the gemstones. All Sinbad had to do was tie himself to a large piece of meat and he was soon carried away to the eagle's nest and was saved by a merchant.

Although Sinbad the Sailor didn't exist except in a story, the fables of a legendary valley of diamonds and the use of greasy meat to retrieve the gemstones have existed for thousands of years.