The Saturday City: Sydney
It is not often that I get intimidated created by the man-made wonders. I tend to court the nature, more than I do of steel and concrete. But when I saw on the Sydney Harbour Bridge, skipped my heart beat faster. My jaw dropped. . I "OOOOH" ed and "Ahhh" ed I said to my friend: "Wow!" Because it was so amazing how people said it was. And that describes my time in Sydney - it was everything people said it would be
Sydney is one of the most famous cities in the world .. his name recognition, it is with New York, Tokyo, Paris and London. It was built in 1788 as a penal colony and in 1822 the town had banks, markets, well-established thoroughfares and was a respectable town. The urban development of the 1830s and 1840s (including the development of the first suburbs) occurred when the town grew rapidly when ships began arriving with immigrants looking to start a new life. With industrialization Sydney expanded rapidly, and by the early 20th century it had a population of over one million.
Sydney is filled with amazing things to do and a wealth of famous attractions. From the famous Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge, Bondi Beach to Kings Cross, Sydney has a lot of sites for travelers. There are also trips to the wine region of the Hunter Valley and the amazing Blue Mountains, of which both require a few days.
However, I have one of them hardly looked. Sydney was the last stop on a 18-month tour and then I was pretty burned out. So gutted that I skipped most of Queensland to fly home (albeit after two weeks in Boston, I was ready to fly back to Australia). I skipped Bondi Beach. I have not in the Hunter Valley or the Blue Mountains. I avoided the clubs. I do not have the rods.
But even with the city more than half the things missing, I still loved Sydney! I see the bridge, the opera, the park, the botanical garden and the yard area. I researched Kings Cross, which is an interesting mix of backpackers, clubs, junkies and prostitutes. The main road of the area, Darlinghurst Road, with bars, walkers, and bums filled. Here are all mix them in together to form a cheap and shabby area that gets wild at night. But once out that the road the whole area changes and is the very grand residential area. The streets are clean, the people are friendly, and the area is filled with little green space. And everything is within easy walking distance to the park that overlooks the harbor. I was quite impressed with the area, despite its seedy reputation.
I was very impressed with the gardens and the Opera House area. The Sydney Domain / Royal Gardens are massive and very nice to walk around in. It's easy to spend hours in the area. I walked around for about an hour and saw perhaps less than half of the way and I'm not a slow walker! It can be defined a good recovery from the madness of the city. I spent a few wonderful hours to explore the gardens, read about the natural habitat of Sydney and then to eat a nice lunch on a grassy knoll.
The Opera House and the Harbour Bridge were next and as astonishing as the people they said were. A lot of hype surrounds both structures, but see them as I came to the harbor, was breathtaking. It is as if I was in a bit of history. It is hard to describe a feeling, but if I had to choose a word, it would be simply "wow". See look ...
Wow really? All Sydney was wow. It reminded me of a Europeanized American city -. A cross between San Francisco, Seattle, Boston, London and Amsterdam
Anyone Australia sets foot in Sydney visited, so I do not push it on the head. Instead, I'll simply to Australia push you the currency to say is weaker than it used to be so now is a good time to visit Australia and Sydney.
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