My intent is to travel to these different places with anyone who comes over and wants to see Australia - It's always better to see it with great friends or family!!
So let me know if you want to come over and what you want to see!
New South Wales (Sydney)
Top 5 Walks in Sydney: Bondi to Bronte (Beach walk), Harbour Foreshore (includes Darling Harbour, The Rocks and Royal Botanic Gardens), Manly to the Spit (Coastal), The Rock (Sydney's oldest precinct) and Watsons Bay to South Head.
Top Parks & Reserves : Centennial Park, Chinese Garden of Friendship (Darling Harbour, www.chinesegarden.com.au), Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park (See Aboriginal Carvings, quiet waterways), Royal Botanical Gardens, Sydney Harbour National Park
Top Beaches - Avalon, Bondi, Cronulla, Manly, Palm Beach
Top areas/suburbs : Balmain, Darling Harbour, Manly, Paddington/Moore Park, The Rocks/millers Point
Not to miss: the Three Sisters, Evans Lookout, Govetts Leap, Hargreaves Lookout
At Scenic World, check out the Scenic Railway is the steepest incline railway in the world giving passengers a hurtling ride straight down the cliff side.
Enjoy Sydney's many beach fronts like Bondi Beach, Manly Beach, etc.
Australian National Maritime Museum - "Australia Under Attack 1942-43"(until Jun 11) + Vikings Exhibit (until June 18), www.anmm.gov.au
Australian Museum - "Pearls Exhibit"
Australian Reptile Park, www.reptilepark.com.au, somersby, daily shuttle service from Sydney hotel
Crime & Accident Scene Photos, Justice & Police Museum, until Nov5, Corner of Albert & Phillip St., Cicular Quay, 9252 1144
Oyster Shooters - Alchohol and Raw Oyster all in one glass!
"Minus 5 Degrees" - Sydney's Ice Bar, near the Opera House (OPera Quay, East Circular Quay)
Sydney Skywalk
Waratha Park Earth Sanctuary (30 mins North of the City) - Koalas, Emus, Kangaroos,... Try Bush Food, Duffys Forest, www.waratahpark.com.au
Darling Harbour - Aboriginal Art (Australian Woodwork, Australian Craft Galleries, Gavala Aboriginal Art Centre)
Roar and Snore - stay overnight in a zoo and hear lions roar. Night Zoo safari. $155.20 per adult every Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
www.ticketek.com or 132 849
skydive 14,000+ ft near Sydney. Various other world class adventure activities on site. 60 secs freefall at 200km/hr, $199, 1-800-sky-dive www.simplyskydive.com.au
Aborigal Art Galleries (representing artists from Arnhem Land, the Central and Western Deserts, the Kimberley region of WA, the Tiwi Islands, Torres Straight Islands, Lockhart River and Aurukun in Far North Queensland) :
Jetty Dive Centre, Solitary Islands Marine Park, Advanced, 398 Harbour Drive, Coffs Harbour, 1800 003 230 www.jettydive.com
Dive Centre Bondi, 9369 3855, www.divebondi.com.au, info@divebondi.com.au, 192 Bondi road, GUE technical diver training, good dive club, Dive Areas: North Head, South Head, North Bondi, Gordons Bay, Bare Island
Near Melbourne : Koala Conservation Centre / Cleland Conversation Park (koalas, kangeroos, emus, dingoes, wombats), Penguin Parade on Phillip Islan
Canberra: sheep shearing demo
Northern Territory (Darwin)
Tiwi Islands: guided jouney through the modern day aboriginal community of Nguiu, Museum, enjoy billy tea and damper, traditional totem dances, smoking ceremony, visit Tiwi burial site, Pukamani Poles (burial poles) rituals
Aboriginal Rock art galleries
Alice Springs: Stardley Chasm, tenant creek/underground mine
Katherine: mataranka thermal springs
Magnetic Termite Mounds
Litchfield National Park
Kakadu : Gagudju Crocodile Holiday Inn, Aboriginal Rock Art
Australian Aboriginal Arts & Culture Tours, 4 days/3 nights, Central Australia, meet artists / learn about culture / eat bush food, www.anaguku.com.au
Western Australia (Perth)
Nambung National Park, home of the famous "pinnacles"
Tasmania (Hobart)
Honty Dunes (Massive Sand Dunes) - Quad Bike Ride
Hobart: cadbury chocolate factory tour, bonorong wildlife park
Deloraine: traditional smoking ceremony, dance, chance to sample unique teas
Sheffield: the town of murals
Huon Valley's Tahune Forest Airwalk
New Zealand
Queenstown: River Boarding, River Rafting
Hokitika: View Greenstone Carving
Rotorua: Waitomo Glow Worm Grotto, Whakarewarewa Maori Village (traditional Maori Hangi feast, traditional wood carvings, concert, greenstone tiki (maori pendant)), renowned geothermal activity such as boiling mud pools, voilent geysers. Sheep sheering demo, Cave tubing in the Ruakuri Caves, very active Mt. Ruapehu, downhill luge rides at Mt.Ngongotaha
Keikoura: cruises to see the sperm whale, swim with the dolphins in the wild
Near Christchurch: Fox Glacier and Franz Josef Glacier
New Zealand's original bungy jumping site
Nelson: skydive
Other Nearby Islands & Trips
Fiji : Diving, Sandboarding, River Tubing, Waterfalls, Traditional Ceremony, Rafting, Hot Springs and Mud Pools
