Stuff to do in Sydney?

[angel_girl86]

Some friends and I Going to Sydney this coming weekend and are just wondering what fun stuff there is to do while we're there. Free and cheap are preferable. We're going to hillsong on the monday and have the 3 days before the conference to waste....

 

[DanielJamesSimon]

I'm not sure about free, other than just walk around the Harbour. Get a train to Circular Quay and just cruise around, window shopping, walking along the wharfs... get a ferry if you want to spend a bit of money and go to around on the Harbour or something. Last time I was there I got a monorail - got to see a bit of Sydney from up on the tracks. Not the most exciting thing ever but not bad for four bucks.

I'm not a great guide to Sydney sadly. I love it there though.

 

[Neenie1]

I don't live in Sydney, but will agree with what Daniel said. Go around Darling Harbour on the ferries, it's not free, but if it's a nice sunny day it's quite beautiful to look at. Also the botanic gardens are around that area too, it's nice to look at.

Can't really think of much else, hope you enjoy the conference.

 

[grateful heart]

Depends what you like to do, and where abouts you are staying?. The conference should be very good, Reinhardt Bonke is coming

 

[angel_girl86]

We're staying somewhere in the city, the conference will be great.

I think we were planning on visiting Hillsong church on the sunday, I'm guessing that it will be very crowded tho.

 

[winglovesall]

Hire a car out to the Blue Mountains. It takes 2 hours approximately to get there.

Walk around the city. Catch the Blue and Red Explorer buses that can tour you around major attractions of Sydney including Bondi Beach, Sydney Opera House, Manly .... .

 

[Bevlina]

You can always catch the Manly Ferry and have a look at Manly too! That's fun! I like the Blue Mountains, especially that thing that falls down the cliff face. Great fun! It's a little train thingy.

 

[Bevlina]

I'd put a pic up of it but I'm not buddy game enough.

 

[KristianJ]

Probably the best thing to do if you're planning to use lots of public transport is buy a DayTripper ticket - it's $15 but you'll get as much travel on ferries, trains and buses as you can do on a typical day. Thus you could catch a ferry over to Manly (which is a very scenic trip, plus Manly's a lovely suburb), a JetCat up to the Homebush precinct if you want to look around before the rush of next week, or catch a train up to any of the stations in the Blue Mountains (look for an intercity train from Central up to either Katoomba or Lithgow and it will stop at every station in the mountains) and do some sightseeing up there. But there are several good options in the city itself as the others have mentioned.

 

[DanielJamesSimon]

Hire a car out to the Blue Mountains. It takes 2 hours approximately to get there.

Walk around the city. Catch the Blue and Red Explorer buses that can tour you around major attractions of Sydney including Bondi Beach, Sydney Opera House, Manly .... .

Of course, the Mountains! I used to live in Blackheath until 2003. Beautiful place. Get a train up to Katoomba or Blackheath. Katoomba has some great lookouts (you'll need a taxi to get there if you don't have your own car) - the Three Sisters is world famous and Echo Point is beautiful.

Blackheath has some nice lookouts as well - Govett's Leap, down the end of Govetts Leap Road (it's the main road of Blackheath - turn right at the lights coming from Sydney, or else cross the railway, then the highway, then turn right and walk up to the end of the block, and then turn left - taxis etc. are there). It's got a couple of walks and so on, which are a great way to have fun without spending a cent.

Evan's Lookout, which is down the end of Evans Lookout Road - that's the first main road coming in from Sydney by car.

Hat Hill Road leads to Hat Hill (can you guess what they name the roads after in Blackheath?), which is a good climb and has an okay view. You can keep going down Hat Hill Road (it's about 2km then 7km more of dirt road) and there's Pulpit Rock, which is great. There's a walk that takes about two or so hours from Govett's Leap to Pulpit Rock (I think - one down the end of Hat Hill Road anyway) - it's great fun but is not a loop so you might get stuck with no car. (I used to live on Hat Hill Road - well, actually, St. Elmo Ave., a tiny road parallel to Hat Hill right down near the end.)

There are others in Blackheath as well, though I can't remember exactly how to get there. Going left at the lights coming from Sydney leads to some really nice place, eventually.

"That thing that falls down the cliff face" that Bevlina mentioned is the Scenic Railway - good fun. There's also the Scenic Skyway there, which I've never been on. There are some good walks and scenery around there. The Scenic Railway is the steepest railway in the world - once a mining railway, now a very famous tourist attraction.

And of course there are plenty of other places as well - they're just the ones off the top of my head!

 

[GdayJim]

Head to circular quay for macca's and a great view, then to the royal botanic gardens go through there to get to the muesums and art galleries.

From there you can go to St Andrew Cathedral, where they have fantastic evangelical speakers that are considered world class by a lot of evangelicals. People from England, Ireland and America head down to St Andrew's 6:30 pm sunday service. It has it's own Orchestra(String and Wind), Jazz band and etc...
The talks are for the more "Adult" people that aren't drinking "milk"...

Theres also Paddies Market which has cheap goodies!

For the walks in Royal botanic gardens, it's best to go in the morning, where it's misty... very nice.

Also try not to miss the sunset at a lot of the beaches like Coogee or Maroubra.

But you really should go to St Andrews in TownHall, where the dudes have the best theology and their effort in study of the Word of God has been... in blood and pain. It's persecution...etc

 

[angel_girl86]

wow sounds like there's heaps to do in sydney!!! Too bad we aren't going for that long.....I'll have to plan another trip to fit everything in

 

[shout2thelord]

Climb the harbour bridge - ive seen it twice now but never climbed it im so doing it next time im there!

Hillsong church is awesome u will love it whether u go to city or hills (both have slighty different feel)

and the conference i was totally blown away - im so jealous but hey ill be there for 2yrs from august

 

[warriorprincessdaughter]

hang on- conference starts monday night how will you have three days?
have fun whatever you do, sydney is great
p.s if you plan to go this sunday get there REALLY early. I go to hills and it is the most packed sunday night service of the year.

 

[Woody]

psst.....catch a flight to Melbourne!! hahaaa