Browse 87 reviews, 4,385 travel blogs, 7,436 photos and videos about 39 sightseeing activities in Sydney. You'll also find some useful ratings and information so that you can get all of the unbiased information you need before filling your next trip with lots of fun things to do.
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- Dec 11, 2004: ... our shoulders like capes when we walked across the Harbour Bridge.
Saturday morning, after a heavy night partying, I ...
- Feb 21, 2006: ... this, Rie and I went and sat down near the Harbour Bridge...until 4am! We virtually had Circular Quay to ourselves by that ...
- Feb 9, 2006: ... Darling Harbour, meaning that we sailed right underneath the Harbour Bridge.
I could now tick off a few things on Donna's ...
- Jan 23, 2006: ... filled with old pubs, cafes and great views of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Later in the day we walked through the main drag ...
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- Dec 9, 2004: ... , they had money to burn. They took us to a nice restaurant in The Rocks with a view of the Opera House, very posh and very ...
- Jul 6, 2005: ... We also get the chance to buy our last minute souvenirs at the Rocks market. And then suddenly that's that...we're in the ...
- Mar 22, 2008: This is Ben reporting. Sydney. Australia's largest city and, perhaps, it's most romanticised. With a population of 4.2 ...
- Mar 25, 2005: ... stunning and
Thomas and Tony especially enjoyed jumping off the rocks on the edge of a
cliff in gale force winds! However ...
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- Dec 11, 2004: ... the ferry to Manly Beach, a route with a good view of the Opera House. Just as we reached the other side, it started to rain ...
- Feb 21, 2006: ... point, and it was pretty special as we looked out to the Opera House...a view I'll never get tired of. We eventually made a ...
- Feb 9, 2006: ... audience could see out to the harbour, and specifically the Opera House.
I paid another $3 to feed the giraffes which was ...
- Jan 23, 2006: ... the Lonely Planet walking tour and head toward the Sydney Opera House to try to purchase Opera tickets (Madame Butterfly) ...
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- Jan 9, 2005: ... to New Zealand and caught our flight across the Tasman to Sydney, Australia! And it has certainly lived up to all of our ...
- Mar 2, 2005: ... and swim with (or get dumped by!). While in Sydney
we have been to Palm Beach (Home and Away!), Dee Why, Manly and Bondi ...
- Jan 8, 2005: ... , driving through the country lanes.
On recommendation, drive to Palm Beach on the Kui Ring Gai National Park, which is a ...
- Jan 30, 2005: ... home.
28th January 2005
We went with Gary and Dawn up to Palm Beach to see the Home and Away set. If you look close ...
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- Feb 9, 2006: ... and a real bonus came when the boat returned via Darling Harbour, meaning that we sailed right underneath the Harbour Bridge ...
- Jan 23, 2006: ... of the day was pretty standard sightseeing. We walked to Darling Harbour, took a ferry to the Opera House, watched some of ...
- Feb 12, 2006: ... turned out to be great. We had dinner on the water in Darling Harbour at the Wine & Steak Co. and then took advantage of ...
- Jan 9, 2005: ... to New Zealand and caught our flight across the Tasman to Sydney, Australia! And it has certainly lived up to all of our ...
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- Feb 21, 2006: ... sat down near the Harbour Bridge...until 4am! We virtually had Circular Quay to ourselves by that point, and it was pretty ...
- Feb 9, 2006: ... was stunning, and if anything surpassed expectations. We sat down at Circular Quay for half an hour and took in the views, ...
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Our last full day in Sydney was a lazier one. We caught the ferry to Circular Quay and wandered into the main shopping ...
- Feb 15, 2006: ... , or rastamen playing their reggae. There was always a buzz around Circular Quay, and we enjoyed relaxing down there (and my ...
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- Sep 11, 2009: ... ;that jutted out into the sea, and could see out to Fort Denison island and the north shore, as well as back west ...
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- Feb 15, 2006: ... were second to none. My favourite view yet came at Mrs Macquarie's Chair, as you could see both of the famous landmarks in ...
- Oct 8, 2005: ... Gardens. Resting on a golden shelf of rock by Mrs. Macquarie's Chair, where I once watched the fireworks over a new year's ...
- Apr 26, 2008: ... we did a walking tour of the botanical gardens, Mrs. Macquarie's Chair, and even ventured into the art museum before going ...
- Jan 1, 2005: ... , plus some of their friends) walked down to Mrs. Macquarie's Chair, a fireworks-viewing point in the lovely Botanic Gardens. ...
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- Feb 15, 2006: ... in the hostel for long, so after the movie we explored Chinatown and had another walk down to the harbour. This actually ...
- Feb 19, 2006: ... felt worse afterwards. Once again, we visited the market in Chinatown that night, and Rie bought herself a nice ring, but in ...
- Nov 18, 2003: ... as we now have an address!
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- Mar 2, 2004: ... in the early morning. Drive through the Snowy Mountains to Australia's highest point - Mount Kosciuszko. Most of us pay $23 ...
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- Feb 17, 2006: ... , presumably after a heavy night!
We'd passed the Australia Museum on the way to Kings Cross, and for the sake of $10 we ...
- Dec 13, 2004: ... trusted!) and then we set off walking. We walked through Kings Cross (strip joints and ladies of the night), through the ...
- Jan 2, 2004: ... bus to and then walk over Sydney Harbour Bridge and then catch a train back to Kings Cross. Have buffet leftovers for tea ...
- Dec 6, 2006: ... of it what you will!
We finally get back to kings cross and enjoy a lovely Thai meal before retiring to bed; we have ...
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- Sep 22, 2006: ... other way from Helen & Derek's down to a little beach called Sirius Cove, which was very pretty and full of families and dogs ...
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- May 10, 2008: ... ports of call)
I'm now at Colin's house on Scotland Island just north of Sydney. Colin is the reason that I ended up in ...
- Oct 5, 2006: ... a boat. There are people who live in a little place called Scotland Island on the northern beaches. When they want to travel ...
- Nov 11, 2006: ... -gai National Park and to the Scotland Island Ferry port.
I thoroughly enjoyed my first week in Australia and it was great ...
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- Feb 10, 2004: ... us close into the Harbour and out to Garden Island and round Shark island. Shark Island got its name because it was once a ...
- Dec 25, 2004: ... a couple of kms further out towards the sea at a place called Shark Island. We did try to walk there but it was further than ...
- May 7, 2008: ... , Taronga Zoo (though we didn't actually visit the Zoo) by Shark Island toWatsons Bay. We got a picture of Doyle's famous Sea ...
- Feb 15, 2008: ... see an amazing sunset sailing from Sandy Bay out around Shark Island where the bridge and Opera House came into view.& ...
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- Feb 19, 2006: ... too far away!
After breakfast the next morning, we walked to Central Station to get the early train to Katoomba, the Blue ...
- Nov 19, 2003: ... mins to the cinema, shopping centre and Chinatownand 10 mins to Central Station and the CBD so we were really pleased. But we ...
- Mar 13, 2004: ... biscuits, goodbye and I head off to Sydney. 3 hours later as the bus pulls into Central station I notice that the same group ...
- Mar 2, 2004: ... beside Central YHA. A ten minute walk takes us from Central Station through Chinatown to our apartment at the bottom of ...
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- Nov 30, 2004: ... the home front we also saw a luxurious place in Sydney CBD (central business district) which had a pool, sauna, and gym that ...
- Nov 19, 2003: ... first glimpse of the Opera House backed by Sydneys Central Business District. It kind of confirmed we had arrived. We dumped ...
- Dec 22, 2005: ... 's plenty to do. Sort of like Manhattan, the Central Business District is compact enough that if you're feeling ambitious you ...
- Aug 5, 2004: ... the lunchtimes I spent there, I went into the Central Business District and just observed hundreds of office workers talking ...
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- Jan 5, 2004: ... but after we got past Manly it got quieter.
Whale Beach is about 35 km North of Sydney and it was a lot quiter. We found ...
- Nov 27, 2005: ... the afternoon around 5 pm we drove back calling to lookout at Whale Beach and then the supermarket to get some stuff for our ...
- Sep 7, 2005: ... the coast going past beaches such as whale beach, curl curl beach and driving all through lush greenery overlooking many ...
- Sep 14, 2006: ... , Lori drove us another 20k up to the northern reaches of Sydney to Whale Beach (though we didn't see any, of course) and to ...
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- May 12, 2005: ... We are now with Nick, Sherylene and Artika, in Newington, near the Sydney Olympic Stadium. Having such a good time. Artika ...
- Oct 23, 2007: ... Move into one tommorow!!!
I'm so happy.
It's in Newington. Newington was a suburb created for the 2000 Olympics. The ...
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- Feb 27, 2005: ... are together. We made our way down Geaorge St, up through Martin Place and then through the Domain where we had planned to ...
- Jan 17, 2004: ... be hotter, thanks -- and stroll down pedestrian-only Martin Place through the CBD.
There are modern extravagances cying ...
- Jan 2, 2005: ... taking pics for a couple of hours, in Hyde Park and Martin Place, Alain didn't get bored, says he loves wandering around the ...
- Mar 7, 2007: ... beautiful old buildings on Macqaurie Street and we wound up in Martin Place, and I did the whole 'here's the Sunrise studios ...