Sydney is Australia’s largest city wrapped around one of the most beautiful harbours in the world. There are iconic structures at every turn like the Sydney Harbour Bridge and Sydney Opera House. Natural beauty abounds too, with popular swimming and surf beaches, magnificently manicured gardens and pockets of natural bushland teeming with wildlife. A diverse, vibrant and cosmopolitan city, Sydney has an exciting food, arts and entertainment scene with something to satisfy all tastes.
Sydney bus tours take guests to some of the city’s best attractions. Explore the magnificent historic buildings, remnants of Sydney’s convict era and early settlement and the more modern structures like the famous Sydney Opera House and impressive Sydney Tower. Madame Tussauds Wax Museum in Darling Harbour is worth a visit, and you can’t leave Sydney without stepping aboard Sydney Harbour Cruises sightseeing tours or Sydney Showboat, Sydney's longest-running cabaret show.
Visitors need more than a day to explore this fascinating city, from wandering through the historic area of The Rocks or the shops and markets of trendy Paddington, taking a dip at Bondi Beach or breathing in the beauty of the Royal Botanic Gardens.
Sydney Opera House with its distinctive sails has become synonymous with the city, not just for its design but its impressive calendar of events. On Boxing Day Sydney Harbour is abuzz with excitement for the start of the annual Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race, one of the most popular and exciting yacht racing events in the world.
On New Year’s Eve Sydney Harbour Bridge becomes the focal point for one of the world’s biggest parties and fireworks displays. From May to June Sydney’s annual festival of light, music and ideas, Vivid transforms the city into one giant canvas for brilliant light installations and projections, along with performances and talks.
Tour packages from Sydney include a peaceful river cruise on Nepean Belle Paddle-wheeler and the spectacular Blue Mountains stopping at Echo Point Lookout to view the famous Three Sisters. Board the world’s steepest railway at Scenic World, or wonder at Hydro Majestic, an historic hotel stretching 1.1 kilometres along the escarpment edge.
West to Bathurst, home of the Mount Panorama Motor Racing Circuit and the annual Bathurst 1000, or northwest for a tour of Tobruk Sheep Station. Two hours north, jump aboard Newcastle's Famous Tram, a novel way to visit this historic city.
Call into Port Stephens with its stunning beaches, take a Moonshadow Cruise off Nelson Bay or indulge in a tour of McGuigan Wines or Hunter Valley Gardens in the Hunter Valley wine region. South to the Illawarra Fly Treetop Adventure, onto Bowral, home to the Bradman Museum and International Cricket Hall of Fame and Fitzroy Falls in the stunning Southern Highlands.
Big Bus Tours Sydney offers a hop on-hop-off service taking visitors to all the popular city sights and attractions.
The cove was called Warrane by its Aboriginal inhabitants. In 1788, Captain Arthur Phillip, the first governor of New South Wales, named the cove where the first British settlement was established Sydney Cove after Home Secretary Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount of Sydney.
There’s no end to the type of tours you can take off on in Sydney. Walking tours, bike riding tours, harbour cruises, Aboriginal cultural tours, ghost tours, seaplane tours, tall ships tours, culinary tours, the list goes on!
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