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Morning or Afternoon Highlights Tour in Sydney with a Local Guide
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Morning or Afternoon Highlights Tour in Sydney with a Local Guide

By Dingo Tours
8.8 out of 10
Free cancellation available
Price is AU$154 per adult
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  • Free cancellation available
  • 4h
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  • Instant confirmation
  • Selective hotel pickup
Overview

This half day Sydney highlights tour is just perfect to kick-start or end your holiday. See all the city hot spots and tourist icons: Sydney Harbour Bridge, the Opera, Mrs Macquarie's Chair, Woolloomooloo, Harry Cafe de Wheels, Rushcutters Bay, Point Piper, Rose Bay, Vaucluse, Shark Beach, The Gap, Bondi Beach, Paddington, Darlinghurst, China Town and Darling Harbour. En route, your expert tour guide will provide you with all the insight information you need to know as a first time visitor: where are the best beaches in town? Or the best walks, the finest restaurants or the most atmospheric Aussie pubs. In fact, this half-day Sydney tour will leave you with so many ideas and plans that you'll likely decide to extend your stay in the world's most beautiful city!

Activity location

  • Observatory Hill
    • Watsons Road, Millers Point
    • 2000, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Observatory Hill
    • Watsons Road, Millers Point
    • 2000, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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8am Departure
  • Activity duration is 4 hours4h4h
  • English

Morning half-day highlights tour of Sydney departing at 8am
Pickup included

Language options: English
Starting time: 8:00 am
Price details
AU$154.00 x 1 AdultAU$154.00
Total
Price is AU$154.00
Until Fri, 15 Nov
1:30pm Departure
  • Activity duration is 4 hours4h4h
  • English

Morning half-day highlights tour of Sydney departing at 1:30pm
Pickup included

Language options: English
Starting time: 1:30 pm
Price details
AU$154.00 x 1 AdultAU$154.00
Total
Price is AU$154.00
Until Fri, 15 Nov

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's includedHotel pickup and drop-off
  • What's includedWhat's includedBottled water
  • What's includedWhat's includedLive commentary on board
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedService charge
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedFood and drinks

Know before you book

  • Specialised infant seats are available
  • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
  • Public transport options are available nearby
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
  • Children must be accompanied by an adult
  • Operates in all weather conditions, please dress appropriately

Activity itinerary

The Rocks (Pass by)
The oldest part of (white) Australia. It is where Captain Arthur Philip started the first penal settlement on 26 January 1788. Now a lively & romantic area with plenty of shops, bars and restaurants.
Observatory Hill
  • 10m
The highest point in the inner-city, where in 1858 the Observatory was built to keep the timer and observe the Southern Cross. Now a museum, a cafe and a favourite location for weddings.
Dawes Point Park
  • 10m
Right by the Sydney Harbour Bridge. From the Ivy Steps we marvel at this beautiful part of the harbour, with views on the bridge and the Sydney Opera House.
Sydney Harbour Bridge
  • 10m
Opened in 1932, after 9 years of construction. Employed 16,000 people, and therefor called "Sydney's Iron Long". Also known as "The Coat-hanger". With 508 metres wide, for a long time the widest single span bridge. 134 metres high. 8 car lanes, 2 train-tracks, a pedestrian walkway, a cycle path and a ... commercial Bridge climbing operation.
Mrs Macquarie's Chair
  • 15m
Spot where Elizabeth Macquarie, Lachlan's second wife, loved to wait for tall shops to come in from England with letters from home, furniture and clothes. Her husband had a seat carved for her out of the sandstone: Mrs Macquarie's Chair is an attraction, and a good excuse to take in the views over this part of the harbour.
Fort Denison Island (Pass by)
Former prison island, military fort (during the Crimean War) and a posh restaurant.
Woolloomooloo Wharf (Pass by)
AKA the Fingerwharf, the largest wooden construction in the world. Once a working waterfront, with a fish-market and a ferry-wharf. Now the home of Hollywood actors, a 5 star hotel and upmarket restaurants.
Harry's Cafe de Wheels - Tempe
  • 5m
Not the one in Tempe, but the original one an Woolloomooloo!
Potts Point Sunday Markets (Pass by)
Potts Point: an eclectic mix of Victorian, Colonial, Art-Deco and Manhattan-style architecture.
Kings Cross (Pass by)
Party-town, (former) red-light district, the Golden Mile, the Coca-Cola sign, Bohemian Sydney of the 30's.
Rushcutters Bay Park (Pass by)
The Royal Yacht club of Australia - start of the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race on Boxing Day. First of as series of wealthy Harbour-side suburbs.
Double Bay Farmers Markets (Pass by)
Double Bay, AKA Double Pay. The most expensive shops in Australia include Dior, Cartier, Louis Vuitton. Streets lined with Ferrari's, Bentley's, and all types of German cars.
Woollahra Thai Therapeutic Massage (Pass by)
No, we're not having a Thai massage. We're just seeing thje posh suburb of Woollahra. And Point Piper - the most expensive real estate in Australia, where properties cost an average of $12 million.
Rose Bay Beach
  • 5m
The largest bay of the 66 bays of Sydney Harbour. Location of the first international airport of Sydney. An airport for seaplanes, AKA the Flying Ships.
Nielsen Park (Pass by)
Part of Sydney Harbour National Park. Shark Beach!
Rose Bay to Watsons Bay Walk
  • 10m
A short walk across Parsley Bay to absorbe the atmosphere in this magnificent part of Sydney. Plenty of Rainbow Lorikeets in the Banksia's. In summer we can spot an Eastern Waterdragon.
Watsons Bay (Pass by)
And its hamlet of wooden cottages on a peninsula, between the Pacific and the harbour.
Camp Cove
  • 5m
The first bay Capt Philip saw after he had entered Sydney Harbour, and where he first set foot on Australian soil on 21 January 1788 - 5 days before disembarking in Sydney Cove.
Gap Park
  • 20m
Walk part of the famous Gap Walk to enjoy views over Sydney Harbour and the Pacific, In winter and late spring/early summer we can spot Humpbacks and Southern Right whales on their yearly migration to and from the tropics.
Macquarie Lighthouse
  • 3m
Replica of the first lighthouse built in Australia, to a design of Frances Greenway - the convict-architect who helped Lachlan Macquarie built Sydney.
Bondi Beach
  • 30m
Famous Bondi Beach. Birthplace of Australia's Beach Culture, location of first apartment buildings, first milkbar, first professional life saving club, Sydney's first tram terminal... Starting point of the Bondi to Coogee Walk.
Tamarama Beach (Pass by)
AKA Glamourama. Older generations know it also as 'Little Bondi' , where some of them may still remember the trips in a Hot Air Balloons and a visit to one of the many an ill-fated Aquariums and other entertainment venturers that dotted the Sydney beaches at the turn of last century.
Bronte Beach (Pass by)
Terminus of the Bondi to Bronte Backpacker Express - the rip that takes you on a free, yet dangerous trip between Sydney's best known beaches.
Centennial Park (Pass by)
In English "Centennial Park', Sydney's largest city park. Home of Lachlan Swamp - once source of Sydney's drinking water (the Tank Stream), now the home of thousands of fruitbats hanging in the paperbark ghost-tree forest.
Paddington Markets (Pass by)
Paddington, aka Sydney's Fashion District. Where Australia's top-designers hold court in beautiful, heritage protected Victorian Terraces.
Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras (Pass by)
Held every year in Darlinghurst.
Aurora Rooftop Hotel (Pass by)
Passing though lively Crown Street.
The Haymarket Hotel Syd (Pass by)
Located in Sydney's China Town - small but old settlement. Home of Paddy's Markets!
Darling Harbour (Pass by)
Formerly a busy working waterfront, now an entertainment district with national and international attractions, junk food, restaurants & bars, casino's, hotels etceteras.
Barangaroo Reserve (Pass by)
The last chapter of Sydney.

Location

Activity location

  • LOB_ACTIVITIESLOB_ACTIVITIESObservatory Hill
    • Watsons Road, Millers Point
    • 2000, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • PEOPLEPEOPLEObservatory Hill
    • Watsons Road, Millers Point
    • 2000, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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