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Morning or Afternoon Highlights Tour in Sydney with a Local Guide
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
$110.53
This is an experience gift voucher. The recipient will book the experience after
they redeem the gift voucher.
Overview
This half day Sydney highlights tour is just perfect to kick-start or end your holiday. See all the city hot spots and tourist icons: Sydney Harbour Bridge, the Opera, Mrs Macquarie's Chair, Woolloomooloo, Harry Cafe de Wheels, Rushcutters Bay, Point Piper, Rose Bay, Vaucluse, Shark Beach, The Gap, Bondi Beach, Paddington, Darlinghurst, China Town and Darling Harbour. En route, your expert tour guide will provide you with all the insight information you need to know as a first time visitor: where are the best beaches in town? Or the best walks, the finest restaurants or the most atmospheric Aussie pubs. In fact, this half-day Sydney tour will leave you with so many ideas and plans that you'll likely decide to extend your stay in the world's most beautiful city!
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The experience offers several options. This price includes:
1:30pm Departure
Morning half-day highlights tour of Sydney departing at 1:30pm
Pickup included
Morning half-day highlights tour of Sydney departing at 1:30pm
Pickup included
Tour guide
Language: English
Human tour guide
Duration: 4 hours
The experience offers several options, check yours above
- Live commentary on board
- Bottled water
- Hotel pickup and drop-off
- Food and drinks
- Gratuities
- The oldest part of (white) Australia. It is where Captain Arthur Philip started the first penal settlement on 26 January 1788. Now a lively & romantic area with plenty of shops, bars and restaurants. (pass by)
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Observatory HillThe highest point in the inner-city, where in 1858 the Observatory was built to keep the timer and observe the Southern Cross. Now a museum, a cafe and a favourite location for weddings.
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Dawes Point ParkRight by the Sydney Harbour Bridge. From the Ivy Steps we marvel at this beautiful part of the harbour, with views on the bridge and the Sydney Opera House.
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Sydney Harbour BridgeOpened in 1932, after 9 years of construction. Employed 16,000 people, and therefor called "Sydney's Iron Long". Also known as "The Coat-hanger". With 508 meters wide, for a long time the widest single span bridge. 134 meters high. 8 car lanes, 2 train-tracks, a pedestrian walkway, a cycle path and a ... commercial Bridge climbing operation.
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Mrs Macquarie's ChairSpot where Elizabeth Macquarie, Lachlan's second wife, loved to wait for tall shops to come in from England with letters from home, furniture and clothes. Her husband had a seat carved for her out of the sandstone: Mrs Macquarie's Chair is an attraction, and a good excuse to take in the views over this part of the harbour.
- Former prison island, military fort (during the Crimean War) and a posh restaurant. (pass by)
- AKA the Fingerwharf, the largest wooden construction in the world. Once a working waterfront, with a fish-market and a ferry-wharf. Now the home of Hollywood actors, a 5 star hotel and upmarket restaurants. (pass by)
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Harry's Cafe de Wheels - TempeNot the one in Tempe, but the original one an Woolloomooloo!
- Potts Point: an eclectic mix of Victorian, Colonial, Art-Deco and Manhattan-style architecture. (pass by)
- Party-town, (former) red-light district, the Golden Mile, the Coca-Cola sign, Bohemian Sydney of the 30's. (pass by)
- The Royal Yacht club of Australia - start of the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race on Boxing Day. First of as series of wealthy Harbour-side suburbs. (pass by)
- Double Bay, AKA Double Pay. The most expensive shops in Australia include Dior, Cartier, Louis Vuitton. Streets lined with Ferrari's, Bentley's, and all types of German cars. (pass by)
- No, we're not having a Thai massage. We're just seeing thje posh suburb of Woollahra. And Point Piper - the most expensive real estate in Australia, where properties cost an average of $12 million. (pass by)
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Rose Bay BeachThe largest bay of the 66 bays of Sydney Harbour. Location of the first international airport of Sydney. An airport for seaplanes, AKA the Flying Ships.
- Part of Sydney Harbour National Park. Shark Beach! (pass by)
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Rose Bay to Watsons Bay WalkA short walk across Parsley Bay to absorbe the atmosphere in this magnificent part of Sydney. Plenty of Rainbow Lorikeets in the Banksia's. In summer we can spot an Eastern Waterdragon.
- And its hamlet of wooden cottages on a peninsula, between the Pacific and the harbour. (pass by)
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Camp CoveThe first bay Capt Philip saw after he had entered Sydney Harbour, and where he first set foot on Australian soil on 21 January 1788 - 5 days before disembarking in Sydney Cove.
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Gap ParkWalk part of the famous Gap Walk to enjoy views over Sydney Harbour and the Pacific, In winter and late spring/early summer we can spot Humpbacks and Southern Right whales on their yearly migration to and from the tropics.
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Macquarie LighthouseReplica of the first lighthouse built in Australia, to a design of Frances Greenway - the convict-architect who helped Lachlan Macquarie built Sydney.
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Bondi BeachFamous Bondi Beach. Birthplace of Australia's Beach Culture, location of first apartment buildings, first milkbar, first professional life saving club, Sydney's first tram terminal... Starting point of the Bondi to Coogee Walk.
- AKA Glamourama. Older generations know it also as 'Little Bondi' , where some of them may still remember the trips in a Hot Air Balloons and a visit to one of the many an ill-fated Aquariums and other entertainment venturers that dotted the Sydney beaches at the turn of last century. (pass by)
- Terminus of the Bondi to Bronte Backpacker Express - the rip that takes you on a free, yet dangerous trip between Sydney's best known beaches. (pass by)
- In English "Centennial Park', Sydney's largest city park. Home of Lachlan Swamp - once source of Sydney's drinking water (the Tank Stream), now the home of thousands of fruitbats hanging in the paperbark ghost-tree forest. (pass by)
- Paddington, aka Sydney's Fashion District. Where Australia's top-designers hold court in beautiful, heritage protected Victorian Terraces. (pass by)
- Held every year in Darlinghurst. (pass by)
- Passing though lively Crown Street. (pass by)
- Located in Sydney's China Town - small but old settlement. Home of Paddy's Markets! (pass by)
- Formerly a busy working waterfront, now an entertainment district with national and international attractions, junk food, restaurants & bars, casino's, hotels etceteras. (pass by)
- The last chapter of Sydney. (pass by)
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Morning or Afternoon Highlights Tour in Sydney with a Local Guide
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
$110.53
This is an experience gift voucher. The recipient will book the experience after
they redeem the gift voucher.
How it works?
01
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You choose from 10,000+ experience gifts
02
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We deliver the eVoucher or the Physical box to the recipient
03
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Recipient books the experience and creates unforgettable memories!