Chinese Gardens

Sydney

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June 25th 2009
Day 70 We arrived in Sydney in the evening after a swift three hour flight from Cairns. We witnessed a new level of greed aboard our flight as the airline in question streamed live TV to each of the seatback TV sets......if you swiped your credit card through the reader built into the headrest! Suffice to say we read our books instead. Anyway, we arrived in Sydney and caught a cab to the apa ... read more

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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