Sydney Highlights Tour with Expert Guide

This 4-hour, guided Sydney highlights tour is the perfect way to kick-start or end your holiday. See all the city hot spots and tourist icons. An expert tour guide will provide you with all the insight info you like 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 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

What to expect:

Duration: 4 hours

The Rocks

, , Sydney, 2000, New South Wales

The oldest part of Sydney, site of the first settlement

Pass by without stopping

Observatory Hill

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

360 degree view over the harbour

10 minutes

Dawes Point Park

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

Fantastic views on the Sydney Harbour Bridge and Lunapark.

5 minutes

Sydney Harbour Bridge

Sydney, 2060, New South Wales

Icon

5 minutes

Woolloomooloo Wharf

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

With the Fingerwharf, Harry Café de Wheels

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Mrs Macquarie's Chair

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

Where Elizabeth Macquarie, wife of Governor Lachlan Macquarie, waited for tall ships to bring news, clothes and furniture from home!

15 minutes

Sydney Opera House

Bennelong Point, Easy walk from Circular Quay Train Station, Sydney, 2000, New South Wales

Iconic building, opened in 1973.

5 minutes

The Potts Point Galleries

67 Macleay St, Sydney, 2011, New South Wales

Eclectic architecture of the Victorian era, art deco and Manhatten style red-brick buildings.

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Kings Cross

, , Sydney, New South Wales

The Golden Mile, playground of Sydney's underground.

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Rushcutters Bay Park

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

Starting point of the Sydney to Hobart Yaught Race

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Vaucluse House

Wentworth Road, Vaucluse, 2030, New South Wales

Build in 1805, Home of Charles Wentworth, politician, lawyer, explorer, newspaper owner.

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Nielsen Park

Greycliffe Avenue, Vaucluse, 2030, New South Wales

Home of Shark Beach, where the kiddies frollic in the surf without fear for the 25 bull sharks of Sydney harbour.

10 minutes

Watsons Bay

Sydney, 2030, New South Wales

At Sydney's South Head, where the harbour spills out in the Pacific.
Marvel at the wooden, multimillion dollar cottages.
15 min Gap walk (for those who feel like it)

15 minutes

Gap Park

Gap Road, , Sydney, 2030, New South Wales

15 min walk along Jacob's Ladder for the best views over the harbour, the Gap and the Pacific.
From May to September, and November to December: spot a humpback or a southern right whale on their yearly migration to and from the tropics.

15 minutes

Bondi Beach

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

Iconic beach, birthplace of Australia's beach culture.
Coffee break!

30 minutes

Tamarama Beach

Bondi, 2026, New South Wales

AKA Glamourama

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Bronte Beach

Bronte Road, Bronte, NSW 2024, New South Wales

Family friendly beach.

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Paddington Markets

395 Oxford Street, Sydney, 2021, New South Wales

Paddington, as in the suburb.
Marvel at the Victorian terraces.

Fashion district!

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Aurora Rooftop Hotel

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

As in Surry Hills & Darlinghurst the trendy suburb where the locals play.

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Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras

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

Darlinghurst is where Sydney's Mardi Gras takes place every year (usually in March).

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Chinatown

Sydney, 2000, New South Wales

Paddi's Markets!

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Darling Harbour

, , Sydney, 2000, New South Wales

Entertainment district in the old working harbour

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