Practical Sydney travel means sightseeing on foot or taking the bus, train or ferry.
Sydney is very much a water city with its harbours, rivers and beaches, so ferries are a convenient component of Sydney travel.
Take a ferry cruise
Do plan to take a ferry on a cruise of Sydney Harbour. You can cross the harbour to Manly for a stroll on the Corso, or visit Taronga Zoo or any of the other Sydney Ferry destinations.
Go to the beach
Australians are much enamoured of the sea and Sydney travel would be incomplete if one didn't visit — and laze on — its many beaches.
A night at the Cross
Look at some Sydney photographs for an idea of what you might want to see or expect on your Sydney travel.
You might also want a foray into Kings Cross with its bars and strip shows and specialist shops.
What to eat
As for what to eat, Sydney cuisine shouldn’t be much different from what you’re used to if this is what you want. Of course you can always look for kangaroo or emu steaks or even try witchetty grubs.
Daytrips from Sydney
From the heart of Sydney you can take several short and easy Sydney daytrips.
You can travel north to Nelson Bay or the Hunter Wine Country and return to Sydney by nightfall.
Farther north
If you wanted go farther north, and didn’t need to return quickly to Sydney, you could drive on to Byron Bay, the Tweed Valley, and Queensland’s Gold Coast.
Or go west or south
Or you could take a Sydney daytrip west to the Blue Mountains — to Katoomba, Leura or Blackheath, and proceed to the wondrous Jenolan Caves.
Or you could go on a Sydney daytrip south on the Southern Freeway to Jervis Bay and cavort with the kangaroos in the park.
Biggest Buddhist temple
On your way to Jervis Bay, you could take a detour through scenic Lawrence Hargrave Drive — part of Grand Pacific Drive — return to the main highway and visit the Nan Tien Temple, which is the largest Buddhist temple in the southern hemisphere, and stop at Kiama for a visit to the Blowhole.
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