Locals

Sydney

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December 18th 2007
We arrived in Sydney - nice and hot weather. We checked into our hotel in Kings cross (Kings cross is the red light district of Sydney) but it was ok. It just took a little while to get used to cockroaches! We went on the 2 day tourist bus tour taking in all the sites in the city; chinatown, the opera house, harbour bridge and all the shopping areas (we stopped there for a while, Niamh had to do s ... read more

Oceania » Australia » New South Wales

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Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more