Berlitz Pocket Guide Sydney (Travel Guide eBook)

By Berlitz

With an iconic style and a bestselling brand, this is the quintessential pocket-sized travel guide to Sydney - now with a bilingual dictionary

Plan your trip, plan perfect days and discover how to get around - this pocket-sized guide is a convenient, quick-reference companion to discovering fun and interesting things to do and see in Sydney, from top tourist attractions like Sydney Opera House, Royal Botanic Gardens, Bondi Beach, Sydney Harbour Bridge and the Art Gallery of New South Wales, to hidden gems, including Marble Bar, Elizabeth Bay House and the 505 Theatre. 

- What to see: comprehensive coverage of the Sydney's attractions, illustrated with striking photography
- What to do: how to make the most of your leisure time, from local entertainment to the best activities and shopping
- History and culture: giving you a deeper understanding of the Sydney's heritage, people and contemporary life
- Practical tips: where to stay, dining out and how to get around: reliable recommendations and expert travel advice
- Dictionary: quick-reference bilingual language guide to help you with vocabulary on the ground
- Covers: Sydney Harbour, Harbourside attractions, Central Sydney, Darling Harbour, Eastern Suburbs, Inner West Suburbs, Western Suburbs, The Beaches and excursions from Sydney  

About Berlitz: Berlitz draws on years of travel and language expertise to bring you a wide range of travel and language products, including travel guides, maps, phrase books, language-learning courses, dictionaries and kids' language products.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Insight Guides
• Release date: Jul 1, 2019
• ISBN: 9781785732416

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How To Use This E-Book

Getting Around the e-Book

This Pocket Guide e-book is designed to give you inspiration and planning advice for your visit to Sydney, and is also the perfect on-the-ground companion for your trip.

The guide begins with our selection of Top 10 Attractions, plus a Perfect Itinerary feature to help you plan unmissable experiences. The Introduction and History chapters paint a vivid cultural portrait of Sydney, and the Where to Go chapter gives a complete guide to all the sights worth visiting. You will find ideas for activities in the What to Do section, while the Eating Out chapter describes the local cuisine and gives listings of the best restaurants. The Travel Tips offer practical information to help you plan your trip. Finally, there are carefully selected hotel listings.

In the Table of Contents and throughout this e-book you will see hyperlinked references. Just tap a hyperlink once to skip to the section you would like to read. Practical information and listings are also hyperlinked, so as long as you have an external connection to the internet, you can tap a link to go directly to the website for more information.

Maps

All key attractions and sights in Sydney are numbered and cross-referenced to high-quality maps. Wherever you see the reference [map], tap once to go straight to the related map. You can also double-tap any map for a zoom view.

Images

You’ll find lots of beautiful high-resolution images that capture the essence of Sydney. Simply double-tap an image to see it in full-screen.

About Berlitz Pocket Guides

The Berlitz story began in 1877 when Maximilian Berlitz devised his revolutionary method of language learning. More than 130 years later, Berlitz is a household name, famed not only for language schools but also as a provider of best-selling language and travel guides.

Our wide-ranging travel products – printed travel guides and phrase books, as well as apps and ebooks – offer all the information you need for a perfect trip, and are regularly updated by our team of expert local authors. Their practical emphasis means they are perfect for use on the ground. Wherever you’re going – whether it’s on a short break, the trip of a lifetime, a cruise or a business trip – we offer the ideal guide for your needs.

Our Berlitz Pocket Guides are the perfect choice if you need reliable, concise information in a handy format. We provide amazing value for money – these guides may be small, but they are packed with information. No wonder they have sold more than 45 million copies worldwide.

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Table of Contents

Sydney’s Top 10 Attractions

Top Attraction #1

Top Attraction #2

Top Attraction #3

Top Attraction #4

Top Attraction #5

Top Attraction #6

Top Attraction #7

Top Attraction #8

Top Attraction #9

Top Attraction #10

A Perfect Day In Sydney

Introduction

Diverse cityscape

The outdoor life

Sydneysiders

A Brief History

Dreamtime echoes

Colonists in chains

Rum legacy

Macquarie’s vision

The gold rush

A nation emerges

The iron lung

A world city

Historical landmarks

Where To Go

Sydney Harbour

Harbour highlights

Harbourside attractions

Circular Quay and The Rocks

Sydney Harbour Bridge

Sydney Opera House

Royal Botanic Gardens

Central Sydney

George, Pitt and Market streets

Macquarie’s Sydney

Darling Harbour

Where to eat and shop

Main attractions

Eastern Suburbs

Kings Cross

Paddington

Centennial Park

Inner west Suburbs

Newtown

Balmain

Leichhardt

Western Suburbs

Parramatta

Sydney Olympic Park

Featherdale Wildlife Park

The beaches

Bondi Beach

Vaucluse and South Head

Manly

Northern Beaches

Excursions from Sydney

Blue Mountains

Jenolan Caves

Hunter Valley

Hawkesbury River

Southern Highlands

Canberra

What To Do

Shopping

Where to shop

What to buy

Sports

Participatory sports

Spectator sports

Entertainment

Mardi Gras

Sydney Festival

Nightlife

Children’s Sydney

Calendar of events

Eating Out

What to eat and drink

Bush tucker

Australian wines

The amber nectar

Where to eat

Sydney Fish Market

Restaurants

The Rocks and Circular Quay

City Centre

Darling Harbour/Cockle Bay/Chinatown

Eastern Suburbs

Inner West

The Beaches

Bondi

Manly

Watsons Bay

A–Z Travel Tips

A

Accommodation (see also Camping and Youth hostels)

Airports

B

Bicycle rental

Budgeting for your trip

C

Camping

Car hire

Climate

Clothing

Crime and safety

D

Disabled travellers

Driving

E

Electricity

Embassies and consulates

Emergencies

G

Getting there

Guides and tours

H

Health and medical care

L

Language

LGBTQ travellers

M

Maps

Media

Money

O

Opening times

P

Police

Post offices

Public holidays

T

Telephone

Time zones

Tipping

Toilets

Tourist information

Transport

V

Visa and entry requirements

W

Websites and internet access

Y

Youth hostels

Recommended Hotels

The Rocks and Circular Quay

City Centre

Darling Harbour

Eastern Suburbs

The beaches

Bondi

Manly

Sydney’s Top 10 Attractions

Top Attraction #1

Tourism New South Wales

Sydney’s glorious harbour

Venture out onto the water to explore the harbour. For more information, click here.

Top Attraction #2

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Art Gallery of New South Wales

Great displays of international, Aboriginal and modern Australian art. For more information, click here.

Top Attraction #3

Shutterstock

Sydney Harbour Bridge

An elegant work of art in grey steel. For more information, click here.

Top Attraction #4

Getty Images

Sydney Aquarium

Where the Great Barrier Reef comes to the city. For more information, click here.

Top Attraction #5

Tourism New South Wales

Sydney Opera House

With its billowing sails and harbour setting, it’s an architectural triumph. For more information, click here.

Top Attraction #6

Shutterstock

Taronga Zoo

Among the inmates are koalas and kangaroos. For more information, click here.

Top Attraction #7

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Royal Botanic Gardens

Lush and peaceful, with great harbour views. For more information, click here.

Top Attraction #8

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Blue Mountains

Wilderness on the city’s doorstep. For more information, click here.

Top Attraction #9

Shutterstock

The Rocks

The maritime-flavoured, historic heart of Sydney. For more information, click here.

Top Attraction #10

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Bondi Beach

Not far from the city centre is Sydney’s favourite ocean playground. For more information, click here.

A Perfect Day In Sydney

8.00am

Breakfast

Start your day with breakfast in The Rocks or Circular Quay. Try La Renaissance Café Patisserie on Argyle Street, City Extra or Rossini on the Quay, or Pancakes on the Rocks on Hickson Road.

9.30am

Meet a koala

Hop on a ferry and cruise to Darling Harbour. At Sydney Wildlife World, you’ll meet Australia’s iconic animals, including koalas, wallabies, wombats and crocodiles.

11.30am

Shopping

Sydney is a great place to shop. The Queen Victoria Building may be the most beautiful shopping arcade in the world.

1.30pm

Honour in Hyde Park

Stroll down Park Street to Hyde Park. Visit the moving Anzac Memorial to the country’s fallen servicemen and women. At the other end of the park, the Archibald Fountain is an Art Deco delight.

2.30pm

The Barracks

Opposite the fountain on Macquarie Street is the Hyde Park Barracks. It once housed prisoners, orphans and destitute women in Sydney’s early years. The exhibits illustrate the grim conditions and how the survivors built the country.

3.30pm

Great views

Cross back to Archibald Fountain, then turn right onto Market Street and the Sydney Tower Eye. From the observation deck (more than twice the height of the Sydney Harbour Bridge), you can see the Blue Mountains.

5.00pm

Art stroll

Take a short cab ride to Walsh Bay. Once a busy warehouse and dock area, it’s the centre of Sydney’s performing arts world. The Sculpture Walk features six head-turning sculptures. Relax with a drink at a waterside café as the sun sets. The area is currently undergoing a phased redevelopment to create a public arts and cultural hub.

6.30pm

Dinner and a show

After a pre-theatre dinner, take in a show at the Opera House which is ‘around the corner’. Other than the main theatre there are also performances in the Drama Theatre and Playhouse.

10.30pm

On the town

Drink at one of the oldest pubs in Sydney. The Hero of Waterloo on George Street and the Lord Nelson Brewery both claim the title. Then view the city by night from Blu Bar on 36, atop the Shangri-La Hotel in The Rocks.

Introduction

Sunny, surf-fringed Sydney seems custom-built for outdoor enjoyment. Bold, bright and alluring, the city glows with instant sensuous appeal, from the grey-green, eucalyptus-filled valleys on the city’s outskirts to the terracotta-tiled roofs and swimming pools of the urban landscape.

The city’s glorious harbour, stretching about 20km (121⁄2miles) inland from the Pacific Ocean to the east, is its dominant feature, and was what induced the commanders of the first convict fleet to make their settlement here. The city is now a sprawling metropolis extending more than 40km (25 miles) west, 20km (12 miles) south and 15km (9miles) north of the harbour. The urban area is