Sydney Half-Day Highlights Tour

This half day Sydney highlights tour is just perfect to kick-start or end your holiday. See all the city hot spots and tourist icons: Sydney Harbour Bridge, the Opera, Mrs Macquarie's Chair, Woolloomooloo, Harry Cafe de Wheels, Rushcutters Bay, Point Piper, Rose Bay, Vaucluse, Shark Beach, The Gap, Bondi Beach, Paddington, Darlinghurst, China Town and Darling Harbour. En route, your expert tour guide will provide you with all the insight information you need to know as a first time visitor: where are the best beaches in town? Or the best walks, the finest restaurants or the most atmospheric Aussie pubs. In fact, this half-day Sydney tour will leave you with so many ideas and plans that you'll likely decide to extend your stay in the world's most beautiful city!

What's included:

• Hotel pickup and drop-off
• Live commentary on board

Not included:

• Food and drinks

What to expect:

Duration: 4 hours

The Rocks

, , Sydney, 2000, New South Wales

The oldest part of (white) Australia. It is where Captain Arthur Philip started the first penal settlement on 26 January 1788. Now a lively & romantic area with plenty of shops, bars and restaurants.

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Observatory Hill

Watsons Road, Millers Point, Sydney, 2000, New South Wales

The highest point in the inner-city, where in 1858 the Observatory was built to keep the timer and observe the Southern Cross. Now a museum, a cafe and a favourite location for weddings.

10 minutes

Dawes Point Park

Hickson Road, The Rocks, Sydney, 2000, New South Wales

Right by the Sydney Harbour Bridge. From the Ivy Steps we marvel at this beautiful part of the harbour, with views on the bridge and the Sydney Opera House.

10 minutes

Sydney Harbour Bridge

Sydney, 2060, New South Wales

Opened in 1932, after 9 years of construction. Employed 16,000 people, and therefor called "Sydney's Iron Long". Also known as "The Coat-hanger". With 508 meters wide, for a long time the widest single span bridge. 134 meters high. 8 car lanes, 2 train-tracks, a pedestrian walkway, a cycle path and a ... commercial Bridge climbing operation.

10 minutes

Mrs Macquarie's Chair

1D Mrs Macquaries Rd, The Rocks Visitors Centre, Sydney, 2000, New South Wales

Spot where Elizabeth Macquarie, Lachlan's second wife, loved to wait for tall shops to come in from England with letters from home, furniture and clothes.
Her husband had a seat carved for her out of the sandstone: Mrs Macquarie's Chair is an attraction, and a good excuse to take in the views over this part of the harbour.

15 minutes

Fort Denison Island

Sydney Harbour, , Sydney, 2000, New South Wales

Former prison island, military fort (during the Crimean War) and a posh restaurant.

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Woolloomooloo Wharf

6 Cowper Wharf Rd, Woolloomooloo, Sydney, 2011, New South Wales

AKA the Fingerwharf, the largest wooden construction in the world. Once a working waterfront, with a fish-market and a ferry-wharf. Now the home of Hollywood actors, a 5 star hotel and upmarket restaurants.

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Harry's Cafe de Wheels - Tempe

886-896 Princes Hwy, Tempe, 2044, New South Wales

Not the one in Tempe, but the original one an Woolloomooloo!

5 minutes

Potts Point Sunday Markets

Macleay Street, Potts Point, Sydney, 2011, New South Wales

Potts Point: an eclectic mix of Victorian, Colonial, Art-Deco and Manhattan-style architecture.

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Kings Cross

, , Sydney, New South Wales

Party-town, (former) red-light district, the Golden Mile, the Coca-Cola sign, Bohemian Sydney of the 30's.

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Rushcutters Bay Park

New South Head Rd, Rushcutters Bay, Sydney, 2027, New South Wales

The Royal Yacht club of Australia - start of the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race on Boxing Day.
First of as series of wealthy Harbour-side suburbs.

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Double Bay Farmers Markets

Guilfoyle Park, Bay Street, Sydney, New South Wales

Double Bay, AKA Double Pay. The most expensive shops in Australia include Dior, Cartier, Louis Vuitton. Streets lined with Ferrari's, Bentley's, and all types of German cars.

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Woollahra Massage

32 Queen St,, Sydney, 2025, New South Wales

No, we're not having a Thai massage. We're just seeing thje posh suburb of Woollahra. And Point Piper - the most expensive real estate in Australia, where properties cost an average of $12 million.

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Rose Bay Beach

Rose Bay, New South Wales

The largest bay of the 66 bays of Sydney Harbour.
Location of the first international airport of Sydney. An airport for seaplanes, AKA the Flying Ships.

5 minutes

Nielsen Park

Greycliffe Avenue, Vaucluse, 2030, New South Wales

Part of Sydney Harbour National Park.
Shark Beach!

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Rose Bay to Watsons Bay Walk

Sydney, New South Wales

A short walk across Parsley Bay to absorbe the atmosphere in this magnificent part of Sydney. Plenty of Rainbow Lorikeets in the Banksia's.
In summer we can spot an Eastern Waterdragon.

10 minutes

Watsons Bay

Sydney, 2030, New South Wales

And its hamlet of wooden cottages on a peninsula, between the Pacific and the harbour.

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Camp Cove

Sydney, New South Wales

The first bay Capt Philip saw after he had entered Sydney Harbour, and where he first set foot on Australian soil on 21 January 1788 - 5 days before disembarking in Sydney Cove.

5 minutes

Gap Park

Gap Road, , Sydney, 2030, New South Wales

Walk part of the famous Gap Walk to enjoy views over Sydney Harbour and the Pacific,
In winter and late spring/early summer we can spot Humpbacks and Southern Right whales on their yearly migration to and from the tropics.

20 minutes

Macquarie Lighthouse

Old South Head Road, Vaucluse, 2030, New South Wales

Replica of the first lighthouse built in Australia, to a design of Frances Greenway - the convict-architect who helped Lachlan Macquarie built Sydney.

3 minutes

Bondi Beach

Queen Elizabeth Drive, , Sydney, 2026, New South Wales

Famous Bondi Beach. Birthplace of Australia's Beach Culture, location of first apartment buildings, first milkbar, first professional life saving club, Sydney's first tram terminal...
Starting point of the Bondi to Coogee Walk.

30 minutes

Tamarama Beach

Bondi, 2026, New South Wales

AKA Glamourama.
Older generations know it also as 'Little Bondi' , where some of them may still remember the trips in a Hot Air Balloons and a visit to one of the many an ill-fated Aquariums and other entertainment venturers that dotted the Sydney beaches at the turn of last century.

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Bronte Beach

Bronte Road, Bronte, NSW 2024, New South Wales

Terminus of the Bondi to Bronte Backpacker Express - the rip that takes you on a free, yet dangerous trip between Sydney's best known beaches.

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Centennial Park

Grand Drive, Centennial Parklands, , Sydney, 2021, New South Wales

In English "Centennial Park', Sydney's largest city park. Home of Lachlan Swamp - once source of Sydney's drinking water (the Tank Stream), now the home of thousands of fruitbats hanging in the paperbark ghost-tree forest.

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Paddington Markets

395 Oxford Street, Sydney, 2021, New South Wales

Paddington, aka Sydney's Fashion District.
Where Australia's top-designers hold court in beautiful, heritage protected Victorian Terraces.

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Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras

Level 2/81-83 Oxford St, Sydney, 2010, New South Wales

Held every year in Darlinghurst.

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Aurora Rooftop Hotel

324 Elizabeth Street, , Sydney, 2010, New South Wales

Passing though lively Crown Street.

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The Haymarket Hotel Syd

661-663 George St, Sydney, 2000, New South Wales

Located in Sydney's China Town - small but old settlement.
Home of Paddy's Markets!

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Darling Harbour

, , Sydney, 2000, New South Wales

Formerly a busy working waterfront, now an entertainment district with national and international attractions, junk food, restaurants & bars, casino's, hotels etceteras.

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Barangaroo Reserve

Hickson Road, Sydney, 2000, New South Wales

The last chapter of Sydney.

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