Australian Museum Sydney

The final stop of our seven month adventure! Sydney, Australia! After arriving on an early morning flight, the day was spent exploring the city centre, and in particular, the world famous Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge. It was really cool see such an iconic place in person, and it's just as grand as it looks in all the photos. Sydney is a …

Over this past month of August we have been on the big wind down and preparing to leave Australia.
A massive to do/see checklist is getting peppered before leaving. The amount of stuff we have managed to gather up over the year is a little bit mental. A large box was required to send a few memento's home to Norn Iron. I have been in my new …

I didn't realise just how long it takes to get from the hostel to Circular Quay until this morning. I had my Opera House tour booked for 10am, but it said to get there by 9.45am. I set out a little after 9am, expecting time to get a coffee beforehand, but I only got there by 9.50am.

The tour was quite interesting. Did you know it took over …

First off, the population of New Zealand is 4.5 million. The population of Sydney is 4.6 million - it was incredibly busy to us country folk.
We landed and got out of the airport quite quickly, getting the train straight to central station. After a little bit of google maps and wandering round the carpark, we found the hostel and walked the two …

Aujourd'hui nous sommes réveillés et ont décidé d'aller sur le hop on hop off bus touristiques de Sydney. L'autobus est rouge et à deux etages qui s'arrête à 34 attractions différentes, et vous emmène partout dans Sydney. Nous n'avons pas monter l'autobus jusqu'à environ 01h30. Nous avons commencé à Circular Quay sur l'autobus, et notre premier arr …

So, I saw 3.30am for a bit, 5.30am and then 9am! So a bad nights sleep though wearing to eye masks is rather amusing! Seriously do hate light!! When I'm trying to sleep! After skyping and showering Frank and I took to the shops!! Well it had to be done really!! I had already spotted westfields yesterday!! We went to a few shops and then I decided …

Sydney is a huge city and we were lucky enough to live in the CBD, where all the attractions are in the walking distance. We spent 8 months there for work and absolutely loved it.
There are numerous beaches, harbors and things to see but it is quite expensive, so to enjoy it allow sufficient funds. Just outside Sydney lie the infamous Blue …

On the 13 Colleen and I walked downtown through the University of Sydney and went to the Australia Museum. We spent a few hours looking at the wildlife displays and the Aboriginal history. They have a huge collection of birds, bugs, reptiles, fossils, gems etc etc. We walked through Hyde park and then took the monorail on a little scenic tour …

... , and it was nice...despite someone being completely laid out on the grass in front of us, presumably after a heavy night! We'd passed the Australia Museum on the way to Kings Cross, and for the sake of $10 we decided to go inside on our return. I ...

... , and we enjoyed relaxing down there (and my Japanese vocabulary is increasing as a result!). Friday began with a visit to the Museum of Contemporary Art (or "Contemporary Art of Museum" as Rie called it!), and I was less than impressed to be honest. ...

... under the possibility that they would soon want a photo with us in China stylie. After walking into the foyer of the Museum of Australia we turned around as I wasn't really interested in the dinosaur type display that appeared to be on offer. The ...

... be small and not too tiring. For this reason a couple of days ago I turned down the opportunity to venture into the Museum of Australia, it looks big, it doesnt have a clear indication of what is actually going to display and the subject of 'Australia' ...

... the Rocks and then we did a walking tour of the botanical gardens, Mrs. Macquarie's Chair, and even ventured into the art museum before going our own ways again.  We then decided to move downtown for the weekend and found ourselves checking into the ...

... the Toni & Guy Academy, only to be told that it is closed until the 5th January. Get back to the hostel and drive to Sydney's Olympic Park, cooling down under a huge fountain as it's so hot. Visit the Telstra Stadium while we are there (where England won ...

... Detroit! I also had time to visit one of the museums nearby that usually charged a hefty entrance fee. But on Australia Day nearly all the museums in Sydney opened their doors to the masses for free - the only dilemma was choosing which ones to ...

After a spot of drinking in the Star Bar until about 2am, we got up a little late today then headed off to the powerhouse museum. Its the first time we have been, which is a bit bad as its the place is literally 1 minutes walk from the house. We went ...

... little snack and much needed coffee on my part anyway we walk and walk and walk some more ending up in Darling Harbour and the Maritime Museum which is all but closed so we can have a quick wonder around but can't go on any of the ships or submarines. I ...

... it. I think the Duck-Billed Platypus probably won the day as the most interesting creature we saw. BTW, as many of you know Australia was originally added to our travel itinerary due to Kayla's very strong desire (to put it mildly) to see the Crocodile ...