A harbour city that lives outdoors
An independent guide to Sydney — 27 landmarks, museums, parks, venues and neighborhoods, walked and written up first-hand.
The ones you came for
Sydney Opera House
A building that took sixteen years, ten times its budget and its architect's career, and is worth every part of that.
Sydney Harbour Bridge
Fifty-three thousand tonnes of steel, six million rivets, and three quite different ways to get on top of it.
Bondi Beach
A kilometre of sand, a surf club that invented lifesaving, and a coastal walk that is better than the beach.
The Rocks
The oldest European quarter in Australia, saved from demolition by a builders' union in the 1970s.
Royal Botanic Garden Sydney
Thirty hectares wrapped around the harbour beside the Opera House, free, open every day since 1816.
Manly
A ferry ride through the middle of the harbour to a beach town with surf on one side and calm water on the other.
Sydney by category
Day-by-day itineraries
Neighborhoods
The essentials
How to get in from all three airports, how the subway and the ferries actually fit together, and the history that explains what you're standing in front of.
From the guide
Eating in Sydney
Modern Australian means Asian technique on European training with local produce, and Sydney does it better than anywhere.
Getting Around Sydney
One card for trains, ferries, buses, light rail and a driverless metro — with fare caps that make the ferries almost free.
How Much Does Sydney Cost?
Expensive, and unusually generous about what it gives away free — which is most of the best of it.