Sydney

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January 24th 2013
Today I took the hop on/off bus firstly around the city, which takes around 90 minutes without getting off. We stopped at the Sydney opera house, which looks much more impressive when photographed than it truly is. We travelled over the harbour bridge and saw the Anzac memorial, the museums, parks, the rocks district and darling harbour. I then took the same bus on the bondi route. A n ... read more

Oceania » Australia » New South Wales » Sydney

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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