Shore Excursions - City Sightseeing Tour
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Tour: ‘Show You Sydney Sights’
Your tour shows you the best of Sydney, including all the major icons.
- Bondi Beach
- Kings Cross
- Darling Harbour
- The Rocks
- Hyde Park
- Parliament House
- Travel across the Sydney Harbour Bridge
- Tour of the Sydney Opera House (a walking tour of 1 hour duration).
The tour also shows you mansions in Australia’s most expensive bay side suburbs.
Lunch is enjoyed at Sydney’s popular, family-owned restaurants ‘Doyles ’ that serves fresh seafood. You dine at a table with views overlooking Sydney Harbour.
You may choose to travel back to the city centre by a Sydney Ferry. At Circular Quay your driver
will meet you and drive you back to your ship.
ABOUT SYDNEY
Background:
Sydney is Australia's oldest, largest and most spectacular city, attracting visitors on vacation worldwide. It developed from humble beginnings in 1788 - a tiny, squalid, penal colony of scarcely more than 1,000 people huddled around Sydney Cove.
By 1870 Sydney was prosperous and growing, the capital of a rapidly expanding new colony of Britain and in the grips of a gold rush. It was a settlement of small workman's cottages in contrast with city buildings of elegant colonial Georgian architecture.
Sydney today is a sprawling metropolis of over 4 million people. It covers 4,000 sq km (1,544 sq miles), equal in size to London and almost double that of New York City.
Sydney, New South Wales - its 2 most famous icons,
The Harbour Bridge and the Opera House
Sightseeing:
The Rocks
This is the original 1780s settlement where houses and shops can be seen. The area is alive with tourists and locals drinking at coffee houses, pubs and dining at bistros.
Bondi Beach, Sydney
Bondi Beach is one of the worlds's best known beaches; it is one km long (0.6 miles) and framed at each end by headlands. Every day of the year lifesavers patrol the beach and for visitors on vacation, a visit here is a pilgrimage!
Bondi Beach - among the world's best known
Sydney Opera House
Tour of the House – (1 hour duration)
If you only see the outside of the opera House, you’re only getting half the experience. A tour of the house is our most popular guided tour and it takes you on a journey through the extraordinary history and architecture of the building and you will see the Concert Hall, Operatic Theatre and a Drama Theatre.
Sydney Harbour Bridge
The Sydney Harbour Bridge is one of Australia's most well known and photographed landmarks. It is the world's largest steel arch bridge, but not the longest. The top of the bridge stands 134 metres above the harbour. It is fondly known by the locals as the 'Coathanger'. The Bridge celebrated its 70th birthday in 2002, with its official opening in March 1932.
About Sydney
Australia’s oldest city, Sydney began as a penal colony in 1788 with the landing of ‘The First Fleet’. A small group of 1000 convicts and a small number of soldiers settled at the area known today as “The Rocks’ (nestled into the rocky cliffs beside the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
It has grown to a large sprawling city with a population over 4 million people.
Sydney was not surveyed until early 1800 and the narrow winding streets are today a legacy of this era. Few building materials were brought and the first houses were prefabricated from timber and canvas or wattle and daub.
After the discovery of gold and Sydney became a thriving commercial hub. By 1870 it was a prosperous and growing. Elaborate and splendid civic buildings and private mansions in the mellow brown sandstone began to emerge and still remain today.
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