Sydney
Sydney is the most populated city in Australia with 3.5 million inhabitants. It has overtaken Melbourne in the last years. It is a tourist destiny and a multicultural city with many options, beautiful beaches and great infra-structure.
Despite the fact that is an enormous city, it is possible to visit many tourist places just walking. The city has two famous main streets, George St. and Pitt St. Going down from the Central Station through George St., there are many places to visit:
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Chinatown, the Sydney's chinese neighbourhood.
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Queen Victoria Building that is an old building where a shopping centre operates nowadays.
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AMP Centrepoint Tower from where it is possible to see all the city.
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Hyde Park.
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Royal Botanic Gardens.
Walking down inside Royal Botanic Gardens in the sea direction, the most famous Sydney's landscapes slowly appears:
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Sydney Opera House, an unusual architecture based in orange pieces and projected by a Danish architect.
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Circular Quay, from where the ferries departure.
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The Rocks is the place where the old pubs are located.
In another direction from George St. turning into left near the AMP Centrepoint Tower, there are more attractions:
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Darling Harbour is an entertainment complex that includes iMax Panasonic Theatre and Sydney Aquarium where you can see seals, platypus, jellyfishes, and walk in glass tubes into the water and see sharks and many kind of fishes.
Using the excellent public transport system composed by buses, monorail and underground, there are other options:
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Bondi Beach, small yet very nice beach.
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Manly Beach, also very beautiful and it is where Ocean World, another aquarium, is located.
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Australian Wonderland, a thematic park that includes the Australian National Wildlife Park, where it is possible to feed the kangaroos and see many typical Australian animals like koala, possum, wombat and dingo.
Although some Australians don't like the Sydney, because they consider it rushy and expensive, Sydney is a great place to live because offers quality life, variety, excitement, a multicultural society and several opportunities and many Australians and non-Australians really love this city.