If you are visiting Sydney for the first time, check out this list when you are planning your sightseeing itinerary.
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If festivals fascinate you, then Sydney is the places to go.
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The 360 Bar in Sydney is the perfect location to take in the sweeping views of the city, while sipping a frosty cocktail. If you’ve been wandering the city sites for hours, it makes for a nice break. The 360 Bar is located in the Sydney Tower, one floor down from the Sydney Skywalk. The bar, as indicated by the name, rotates at the top of the space needle. You can relax in your booth, while enjoying the panoramic views of the city.
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Before you finally get to Sydney it’s likely that you’ve only ever heard of the famous Bondi Beach in this area. Bondi is a gorgeous cove and it’s very easy to reach from the tourist areas of Sydney, but it’s actually quite small and usually very crowded in season. The small village behind the beach can be a really fun place to spend an evening, but the place’s popularity can also be a drawback since it really becomes kind of a “scene” and doesn’t really feel very local. Manly Beach is much larger, and thanks partly to the fact that it’s more difficult to reach from the Central Business District, it’s much more authentically local as well.
Getting to Manly Beach
Fortunately, it’s extremely easy to reach Manly Beach if you know where you are going. There are ferries from Circular Quay (the main ferry terminal in the Central Business District) that leave about every half hour from 6am to midnight during the week, with more frequent service during morning and afternoon rush hours, and similar service starting around 8am on weekends and public holidays. You can find an updated ferry schedule on the Sydneyferries schedule page. The journey takes 30 minutes, although there is a faster JetCat catamaran service that takes only 15 minutes, costs a bit more, and runs only during morning and evening rush hour times.
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If you’ve seen only one Australian beach on a travel show or in a magazine, it was probably Sydney’s Bondi Beach (pronounced BOND-eye), which is easily the most famous in the country in spite of only being about 1 kilometer long. The country is overloaded with excellent and often secluded shorelines, but this picturesque cove in the suburbs of Australia’s largest city gets much of the attention due to its beauty, convenient location, and good surfing conditions.
During Australia’s summer months of December through February, the beach is nearly always packed with sunbathers, and the water is filled with swimmers and surfers. During the shoulder seasons the weather is often warm enough that things on the sand stay very busy, but during the winter months the temperatures are almost always too cool for sunbathing so the crowds consists of surfers in wetsuits and the various onlookers.
Location
Bondi is the closest proper beach to downtown Sydney, which is known as the Central Business District. It’s about 9 kilometers east from the Sydney Opera House and Circular Quay, and about 8 kilometers from the Kings Cross backpacker district. The beach itself is surrounded by a village with about 10,000 residents and nearly endless facilities for tourists and visitors.
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Do you think Sydney can break your budget? Think again and read about the free things to do in Sydney.
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Planning to visit Sydney. Here is a short list of the places to visit.
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I jumped off the Sydney Harbour Bridge, and you can too. Sydney Harbour Bridge Climb offers you the chance to scale the Sydney Harbour Bridge from The Rocks area in Sydney. If you’re looking for an adrenaline rush, this probably isn’t the climb for you. But if you want bragging rights and to see some stellar views of the city of Sydney, go for it. You’ll even score a super cool “I Climbed the Sydney Harbour Bridge” certificate.
Before the Climb
Before you begin your “climb,” you’ll have plenty of …
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Dozens of cities around the world have some kind of tower that dominates the skyline and features an observation deck near the top, but Sydney’s Tower is one of the few that really should not be missed when visiting the city for the first time. It’s not cheap to visit, but it’s honestly one of the best ‘tours’ of Sydney you can get anywhere. It also comes with an impressive multimedia/thrill ride presentation for the same price, so it’s a pretty good deal, at least as long as the weather is clear.
They’ve recently added a new thrill attraction called the Sky Walk, which allows guests who pay significantly more to walk outside on another platform above the observation deck, after some safety training. There is also a buffet restaurant and a normal restaurant on another level of the main deck, so a sky-high meal is possible, though not cheap.
What’s included in a visit
The Sydney Tower is located on top of the Centrepoint Shopping Center in the middle of the Central Business District. You pay your admission near ground level, and that entitles you to the elevator ride to the observation deck, as well as the OzTrek attraction, which is down below.
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One of the world’s most recognizable and iconic buildings, the Sydney Opera House is still a bit of a mystery to most visitors until they do a bit of research. Completed in 1973 and designed by Danish architect Jørn Utzon, the opera house has a couple of key common misconceptions by foreign travelers.
First off, the domed semi-ceilings designed to look like sails in the harbour are actually atop three separate buildings that don’t touch each other. From most angles it looks like one big and amazing structure, but when you get there you’ll see that it’s more complex than it even looks. Secondly, in addition to being an opera venue, the Sydney Opera House actually contains 6 smaller venues as well as the large concert hall, so many things are often happening here at once, and very few of those involve opera.
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