So let me know if you want to come over and what you want to see!

Sydney Travel Plan List of Possibilities

• 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), Manly to Balmoral, 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, Maroubra, Cronulla, Manly, Palm Beach, DeeWhy
• Top areas/suburbs : Newtown, Glebe, Balmain, Darling Harbour, Manly, Paddington/Moore Park, The Rocks/millers Point
• Sydney Aquarium www.sydneyaquarium.com.au
• The Powerhouse Museum (an interactive Science / Technology museum)
• Luna Park Amusement Park
• Taronga Zoo
• Bridge Climb www.bridgeclimb.com
• Manly Oceanworld - Dive with Sharks, www.sharkdive.oceanworld.com.au
• Check out a submarine at the Australian National Maritime Museum - www.anmm.gov.au
• Oyster Shooters - Alchohol and Raw Oyster all in one glass!
• 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
• 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) : 1. Caspian Gallery (housed in a historic mansion) 2. Hogarth Galleries both in Paddington (www.aboriginalartcentres.com) 3. New Guinea Gallery in Surry Hills 4. Bandigan Art in Woollahra www.bandigan.com 5. Aboriginal Art Gallery - Ulladulla Circular Quay www.ulladullaartgallery.com
• Random Ice Skating with Palm trees in the background @ Macquarie Park Skating Rink
• Have lunch and shop at the Fish Market, Pyrmont
• Kayak in the Sydney harbour
• Learn Mahjong at the MahJong Room (Last Saturday of each month. Need to reserve in advance), 312 Crown Street, Surry Hills, 02 9361 3985, www.mahjongroom.com.au
• Watch movies at the ultra comfortable Govinda's
• Authentic aussie BBQ at a local park
• High tea at Victoria Room, Darlinghurst, 235 Victoria St. 9357-4488, 12-5 sat; 1-5 Sun

• Whitewater Rafting in Penrith www.penrithwhitewater.com.au
• Australian Reptile Park, www.reptilepark.com.au, Somersby, daily shuttle service from Sydney hotel
• Waratha Park Earth Sanctuary (30 mins North of the City) - Koalas, Emus, Kangaroos,... Try Bush Food, Duffys Forest, www.waratahpark.com.au
• Tandem Hang Gliding & Paragliding - Warners Bay 0412-607-815, 20-30 mins, www.Air-Sports.com.au $165 tony@air-sports.com.au
• 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
• Aboriginal Walkabout, Blue Mountains Ancient Spirit Quest, 8 hours, www.bluemountainswalkabout.com, walkaboutguide@yahoo.com, 0408 443 822, $95 pp.
• Bushwalking in Blue Mountains (Recommended to walk the National Pass in Wentworth Falls. Others not to miss: the Three Sisters, Evans Lookout, Govetts Leap, Hargreaves Lookout). Town to visit in the Blue Mountains : Katoomba.
• Camping with Kangaroos (Diamond Point at Crowdy Bay, near Taree)

Sydney Diving

• Plunge Divers is my #1 recommendations from the few shops I have tried in Sydney.
• Check out photos of diving at Chowder Bay near Manly and other Sydney locations.

• Kings Cross Organic Good & Farmers Market, Fitzroy Gardens, 9am-2pm, www.organicfood markets.com.au
• Fattest Breakbeats in Sydney: Every friday night at Chinese Laundry
• Retro Party every Tuesday Night @ The World, 24 Bayswater Rd., Kings Cross
• Salsa dancing : The Establishment (Tues), La Cita in Darling Harbour, Vivaz in The Rocks

• The Coachmen (Russian Restaurant), Friday Vodka Tasting, Surry Hills, 763 Bourke St., 9319 7705
• Cafe Pacifico Mexican Cantina, Serves Capipirinhas and Mojitos, East Sydney, 95 Riley Street, 9360-3811
• Lowenbrau, German Restaurant, The Rocks, 9247-7785
• Sosumi - Cool sushi train, 1 Martin Place, 9229 7700
• Genghis Khan Mongolian BBQ Restaurant, 30 King St., Wharf, 9290-1818
• Columbian : El Rincon Quindiano in Ashfield, La Cumbia in Kingsford
• Bangladesh hubs : Campbelltown, Lakemba, Mascot

• Skydive at Byron Bay, tandem or solo, various prices, highly experienced, www.skydivebyronbay.com
• Byron Bay: Surfing lesson, Diving
• Visit an Opal Mining Center: Quilpie in Western Queensland, Lightnight Ridge in NSW, Coober Pedy and Mintabie in South Australia

Queensland (Cairns, Brisbane)

• Gold Coast: jet ski, theme parks
• Rockhamption (Rocky): geologically unique Capricorn limestone caves, optional candlelit exploration
• Cairns: night markets, underwater observatory and semi-submersible craft, Tjapukai aboriginal cultural park
• Skydive in Cairns, from $219, 2 day, can be combo'd with river rafting for $282 skydivecairns.com.au or call 1-800-444-568
• Canoe around Noosa
• Visit Nimbin, hippy commune & candle factory
• Learn how to circular breathe and play the didge
• Kroombit - ride a mechanical bull
• Aboriginal Dreamtime Ceremony
• Townsville / Billabong Sanctuary
• Alberton table lands, Curtain Fig Tree
• Kuranda: Pamagirri Experience
• Learn how to throw a boomerang
• Moreton Island: Tangalooma Wild Dolphin Resort, Sand Toboganning
• Coober Pedy - opal capital, underground hotel/church "Desert Cave Hotel"

Victoria (Melbourne, Canberra)

• 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
• Vanuatu
• Papa New Guinea
• Indonesia Isles