Sydney Opera House

Sydney

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December 16th 2006
We flew from Hong Kong overnight and arrived in Sydney and started doing the tourist thing straight away. Taking an open top bus tour round the city we saw everything Sydney had to offer... buildings, bars famous landmarks. We went to have a look at that weird shaped building that has copied off the toblerone advert (think it was the Opera house), and we saw and walked over the harvour bridge. It ... 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