Insight Guides Pocket Sydney (Travel Guide eBook)

Insight Guides

Description

Perfect day itineraries and top travel tips in a pocket-sized package.

Plan your trip, plan perfect days and discover how to get around - this pocket-sized guide is a convenient, quick-reference companion to discovering fun and interesting things to do and see in Sydney, from top tourist attractions like Sydney Opera House, Royal Botanic Gardens, Bondi Beach and Sydney Harbour Bridge, to hidden gems, including Marble Bar and Elizabeth Bay House.

Compact, concise and packed with essential information about Where to Go and What to Do, this is an ideal on-the-move pocket travel guide when you're exploring Sydney.

- Cultural: delve into the city's rich heritage and get to know its modern-day life and people
- Inspirational: discover where to go and what to do, highlighted with stunning photography
- Practical: get around with ease with a free pull-out map featuring key attractions
- Informative: plan your visit with an A to Z of advice on everything from transport to tipping
- Inventive design makes for an engaging, easy-reading experience
- Covers: Sydney Harbour, Harbourside attractions, Central Sydney, Darling Harbour, Eastern Suburbs, Inner West Suburbs, Western Suburbs, The Beaches and excursions from Sydney  

About Insight Guides: Insight Guides is a pioneer of full-colour guide books, with almost 50 years' experience of publishing high-quality, visual travel guides with user-friendly, modern design. We produce around 400 full-colour print guide books and maps, as well as phrase books, picture-packed eBooks and apps to meet different travellers' needs. Insight Guides' unique combination of beautiful travel photography and focus on history and culture create a unique visual reference and planning tool to inspire your next adventure.

Sujets

• Australasia
• Travel
• Oceania
• Australia

Informations

• Publié par: Apa Publications
• Date de parution: 01 août 2019
• Nombre de lectures: 1
• EAN13: 9781839050961
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

Extrait

How To Use This E-Book

Getting Around the e-Book
This Pocket Guide e-book is designed to give you inspiration and planning advice for your visit to Sydney, and is also the perfect on-the-ground companion for your trip.
The guide begins with our selection of Top 10 Attractions, plus a Perfect Itinerary feature to help you plan unmissable experiences. The Introduction and History chapters paint a vivid cultural portrait of Sydney, and the Where to Go chapter gives a complete guide to all the sights worth visiting. You will find ideas for activities in the What to Do section, while the Eating Out chapter describes the local cuisine and gives listings of the best restaurants. The Travel Tips offer practical information to help you plan your trip. Finally, there are carefully selected hotel listings.
In the Table of Contents and throughout this e-book you will see hyperlinked references. Just tap a hyperlink once to skip to the section you would like to read. Practical information and listings are also hyperlinked, so as long as you have an external connection to the internet, you can tap a link to go directly to the website for more information.
Maps
All key attractions and sights in Sydney are numbered and cross-referenced to high-quality maps. Wherever you see the reference [map], tap once to go straight to the related map. You can also double-tap any map for a zoom view.
Images
You’ll find lots of beautiful high-resolution images that capture the essence of Sydney. Simply double-tap an image to see it in full-screen.
About Insight Guides
Insight Guides have more than 40 years’ experience of publishing high-quality, visual travel guides. We produce 400 full-colour titles, in both print and digital form, covering more than 200 destinations across the globe, in a variety of formats to meet your different needs.
Insight Guides are written by local authors, whose expertise is evident in the extensive historical and cultural background features. Each destination is carefully researched by regional experts to ensure our guides provide the very latest information. All the reviews in Insight Guides are independent; we strive to maintain an impartial view. Our reviews are carefully selected to guide you to the best places to eat, go out and shop, so you can be confident that when we say a place is special, we really mean it.
© 2019 Apa Digital (CH) AG and Apa Publications (UK) Ltd





Table of Contents
Sydney’s Top 10 Attractions
Top Attraction #1
Top Attraction #2
Top Attraction #3
Top Attraction #4
Top Attraction #5
Top Attraction #6
Top Attraction #7
Top Attraction #8
Top Attraction #9
Top Attraction #10
A Perfect Day In Sydney
Introduction
Diverse cityscape
The outdoor life
Sydneysiders
A Brief History
Dreamtime echoes
Colonists in chains
Rum legacy
Macquarie’s vision
The gold rush
A nation emerges
The iron lung
A world city
Historical landmarks
Where To Go
Sydney Harbour
Harbour highlights
Harbourside attractions
Circular Quay and The Rocks
Sydney Harbour Bridge
Sydney Opera House
Royal Botanic Gardens
Central Sydney
George, Pitt and Market streets
Macquarie’s Sydney
Darling Harbour
Where to eat and shop
Main attractions
Eastern Suburbs
Kings Cross
Paddington
Centennial Park
Inner west Suburbs
Newtown
Balmain
Leichhardt
Western Suburbs
Parramatta
Sydney Olympic Park
Featherdale Wildlife Park
The beaches
Bondi Beach
Vaucluse and South Head
Manly
Northern Beaches
Excursions from Sydney
Blue Mountains
Jenolan Caves
Hunter Valley
Hawkesbury River
Southern Highlands
Canberra
What To Do
Shopping
Where to shop
What to buy
Sports
Participatory sports
Spectator sports
Entertainment
Mardi Gras
Sydney Festival
Nightlife
Children’s Sydney
Calendar of events
Eating Out
What to eat and drink
Bush tucker
Australian wines
The amber nectar
Where to eat
Sydney Fish Market
Restaurants
The Rocks and Circular Quay
City Centre
Darling Harbour/Cockle Bay/Chinatown
Eastern Suburbs
Inner West
The Beaches
Bondi
Manly
Watsons Bay
A–Z Travel Tips
A
Accommodation (see also Camping and Youth hostels)
Airports
B
Bicycle rental
Budgeting for your trip
C
Camping
Car hire
Climate
Clothing
Crime and safety
D
Disabled travellers
Driving
E
Electricity
Embassies and consulates
Emergencies
G
Getting there
Guides and tours
H
Health and medical care
L
Language
LGBTQ travellers
M
Maps
Media
Money
O
Opening times
P
Police
Post offices
Public holidays
T
Telephone
Time zones
Tipping
Toilets
Tourist information
Transport
V
Visa and entry requirements
W
Websites and internet access
Y
Youth hostels
Recommended Hotels
The Rocks and Circular Quay
City Centre
Darling Harbour
Eastern Suburbs
The beaches
Bondi
Manly


Sydney’s Top 10 Attractions




Top Attraction #1
Tourism New South Wales

Sydney’s glorious harbour
Venture out onto the water to explore the harbour. For more information, click here .



Top Attraction #2
Glyn Genin/Apa Publications

Art Gallery of New South Wales
Great displays of international, Aboriginal and modern Australian art. For more information, click here .



Top Attraction #3
Shutterstock

Sydney Harbour Bridge
An elegant work of art in grey steel. For more information, click here .



Top Attraction #4
Getty Images

Sydney Aquarium
Where the Great Barrier Reef comes to the city. For more information, click here .



Top Attraction #5
Tourism New South Wales

Sydney Opera House
With its billowing sails and harbour setting, it’s an architectural triumph. For more information, click here .



Top Attraction #6
Shutterstock

Taronga Zoo
Among the inmates are koalas and kangaroos. For more information, click here .



Top Attraction #7
Shutterstock

Royal Botanic Gardens
Lush and peaceful, with great harbour views. For more information, click here .



Top Attraction #8
iStock

Blue Mountains
Wilderness on the city’s doorstep. For more information, click here .



Top Attraction #9
Shutterstock

The Rocks
The maritime-flavoured, historic heart of Sydney. For more information, click here .



Top Attraction #10
Shutterstock

Bondi Beach
Not far from the city centre is Sydney’s favourite ocean playground. For more information, click here .


A Perfect Day In Sydney



8.00am

Breakfast
Start your day with breakfast in The Rocks or Circular Quay. Try La Renaissance Café Patisserie on Argyle Street, City Extra or Rossini on the Quay, or Pancakes on the Rocks on Hickson Road.


9.30am

Meet a koala
Hop on a ferry and cruise to Darling Harbour. At Sydney Wildlife World, you’ll meet Australia’s iconic animals, including koalas, wallabies, wombats and crocodiles.


11.30am

Shopping
Sydney is a great place to shop. The Queen Victoria Building may be the most beautiful shopping arcade in the world.


1.30pm

Honour in Hyde Park
Stroll down Park Street to Hyde Park. Visit the moving Anzac Memorial to the country’s fallen servicemen and women. At the other end of the park, the Archibald Fountain is an Art Deco delight.


2.30pm

The Barracks
Opposite the fountain on Macquarie Street is the Hyde Park Barracks. It once housed prisoners, orphans and destitute women in Sydney’s early years. The exhibits illustrate the grim conditions and how the survivors built the country.


3.30pm

Great views
Cross back to Archibald Fountain, then turn right onto Market Street and the Sydney Tower Eye. From the observation deck (more than twice the height of the Sydney Harbour Bridge), you can see the Blue Mountains.


5.00pm

Art stroll
Take a short cab ride to Walsh Bay. Once a busy warehouse and dock area, it’s the centre of Sydney’s performing arts world. The Sculpture Walk features six head-turning sculptures. Relax with a drink at a waterside café as the sun sets. The area is currently undergoing a phased redevelopment to create a public arts and cultural hub.


6.30pm

Dinner and a show
After a pre-theatre dinner, take in a show at the Opera House which is ‘aro