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• Explore the fabulous city of Sydney. The iconic Sydney Opera House (website: www.sydneyoperahouse.com) has a distinctive shape that echoes the sails of the boats in the equally famous Sydney Harbour. Another must-see is the awesome steel structure that is the Harbour Bridge.
• Step back in time in The Rocks area (the site of Australia's first European settlement), which features cobbled streets, gas lamps, craft shops and small restaurants. There are various other quarters to explore, such as Chinatown, Paddington and Kings Cross.
• Gaze upon the World Heritage-listed Blue Mountains to the west of Sydney: the Three Sisters (so-named because of dreamtime legend), at Echo Point in the Leura/Katoomba region, rise above the valley floor, and afford sensational views of this rugged wilderness.
• Get into some serious mountain country and have your breath taken away at the sight of Australia's majestic highest peak, Mount Kosciuszko, in the Snowy Mountains. The main visitor centre is at Jindabyne.
• Experience unaffected Australian wilderness at the uncommercialised and unpretentious Broken Hill (website: www.visitbrokenhill.com.au), featuring ancient landscapes and Aboriginal culture. In recent years artistic pursuits from a growing population of writers, artists and sculptors have flourished providing a unique impression of the outback.
• Look at 370,000 hectares (913,000 acres) of semi-arid country in the Willandra Lakes Region, renowned as one of the world's earliest-known cremation sites. The archaeological discovery of skeletal remains indicated that homo sapiens inhabited the area 40,000 years ago.
• Take in as much countryside as you can cope with at New South Wales' many parks and nature reserves (website: www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au). The Royal National Park for example is the oldest park in Australia and the second-oldest in the world.
• Tour the gorgeous south coast where traditional country towns such as Eden, Thathra and Kiama have escaped the onslaught of mass coastal development and interrupt a string of national parks protecting magnificent bushlands and spectacular coastal areas all the way to Sydney.
See Contact Addresses for further tourist information.
• Step back in time in The Rocks area (the site of Australia's first European settlement), which features cobbled streets, gas lamps, craft shops and small restaurants. There are various other quarters to explore, such as Chinatown, Paddington and Kings Cross.
• Gaze upon the World Heritage-listed Blue Mountains to the west of Sydney: the Three Sisters (so-named because of dreamtime legend), at Echo Point in the Leura/Katoomba region, rise above the valley floor, and afford sensational views of this rugged wilderness.
• Get into some serious mountain country and have your breath taken away at the sight of Australia's majestic highest peak, Mount Kosciuszko, in the Snowy Mountains. The main visitor centre is at Jindabyne.
• Experience unaffected Australian wilderness at the uncommercialised and unpretentious Broken Hill (website: www.visitbrokenhill.com.au), featuring ancient landscapes and Aboriginal culture. In recent years artistic pursuits from a growing population of writers, artists and sculptors have flourished providing a unique impression of the outback.
• Look at 370,000 hectares (913,000 acres) of semi-arid country in the Willandra Lakes Region, renowned as one of the world's earliest-known cremation sites. The archaeological discovery of skeletal remains indicated that homo sapiens inhabited the area 40,000 years ago.
• Take in as much countryside as you can cope with at New South Wales' many parks and nature reserves (website: www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au). The Royal National Park for example is the oldest park in Australia and the second-oldest in the world.
• Tour the gorgeous south coast where traditional country towns such as Eden, Thathra and Kiama have escaped the onslaught of mass coastal development and interrupt a string of national parks protecting magnificent bushlands and spectacular coastal areas all the way to Sydney.
See Contact Addresses for further tourist information.
