DK Travel : Sydney

Sydney is blessed with stunning ocean beaches, magnificent national parks and a wonderful subtropical climate that makes the great outdoors irresistible to its four million inhabitants. The Eora people, the Aborigines who settled around Sydney Harbour, arrived approximately 50,000 years ago, while the white settlers arrived just over 200 years ago. Free settlers soon followed in the wake of the First Fleet of transported convicts, and after them several waves of migrants seeking a new life. Now, two centuries later, the once far-flung penal colony has matured into a culturally diverse, tolerant and mesmerizing city. Ideally located on the world’s most beautiful harbour, Sydney is as exciting and bustling as it is laid back and relaxing.

Pitt Street Mall

At this shopping precinct, Centrepoint, Skygarden, Mid-City Centre and the Imperial Arcade offer chain stores and food outlets. Sydney Central Plaza houses the Myer department store and designer boutiques.
Pittwater & Broken Bay

Pittwater is a long, slender waterway running from Newport to Palm Beach (see Palm), Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park and Broken Bay. Exclusive houses, private wharves and public marinas populate its eastern shoreline. Housing on the western shoreline thins out as you head north, until you reach Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park, north of isolated Towlers Bay and exclusive Scotland Island. Pittwater’s sheltered waters have long been a favourite haunt with yachties. Broken Bay is a beautiful, wide and sometimes wild expanse of water dominated by Lion Island, an uninhabited rocky outcrop.
Pizza Mario

Inauspiciously tucked away at the bottom of the Republic Building, this restaurant’s wood-fired, sparingly topped, thin and crusty pizzas are as close to the real thing as you’ll find in the inner city.
Planet

There’s plenty that’s portable here, such as wonderful textiles and ceramics. Each piece comes with information about its creator, and can be beautifully giftwrapped.
Platypus Shoes

If the name doesn’t get you, the range of shoes will. Find anything from Aussie Blundstone workboots to the most trendy trainers.
Pompei

Pompei is renowned for their authentic thin-crust pizza and myriad gelato flavours.
Pompei Bed and Breakfast

Luxury Bed and Breakfast accommodation in Sydney in a stylish terrace house only 3kms from the city centre, Pompei offers genuine hospitality and easy access to tourist attractions.
Portuguese

Portuguese custard tarts, natas , are found all over Sydney, but you haven’t really tasted them until you’ve tried Honeymoon Patisserie. Silvas offers traditional charcoal chicken and Gloria’s Café serves up great country dishes.
Powerhouse Museum

Kooky. Challenging. Hands-on. And plenty of fun. Powerhouse’s eclectic and sometimes eccentric science and design collection appeals to children and adults alike.
Powerhouse Museum

This museum of science, design and technology is interesting and great fun, offering many interactive displays.

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