It is afternoon, on 21.1.2009, and we have to The campsite "Lane Cove River Tourist Park, about 10 miles outside of downtown Sydney established. Near the camping site there is a bus route that leads directly to the city center. So we can all our belongings and leave it all on the quiet and idyllic location on a riverside campsite back and move freely in the big city. The bus services are excellent, and range until late into the night.
When we turn from the route-strain (the laborious fumble after the camping site has us all geschlaucht nice!) Have recovered somewhat, germinates quickly to the desire to finally go to town. On the way we already are curved transversely through the city (once the Lord had to chauffeur his vehicle on an emergency basis even written for the traffic Hotel entrance blocked contact - a terrible maneuver) and as we drove over the Harbour Bridge, have opened us the first glimpses of the breathtaking skyline of this city. Simply incredible how the winding arms of Port Jackson - is the natural harbor of Sydney - nestled in bright blue on the far-sweeping the city.
counter work we take the bus into the city center. pass from the bus stop just 20 minutes and we are sold on the Wynard station in the middle of downtown. There are only a few minutes walk to Circular Quay - the place the water, where all major urban transport links converge and where the ferries. Due to the fact that a large part of Sydney's quarters at the water - just on the banks of this so impressive Port Jackson - operate many ferry lines to these urban areas. Instead of using metro or bus, the waterside city areas can be so comfortable and pleasant drive by ferry.
And then we pass under the railway station at Circular Quay, and between the old houses of "The Rocks" shine the monumental steel cables of reverential Harbour Bridge. Then you stand right on the water's on view: Opera House and Harbour Bridge in front of the same lens. In between the port and in the background Glass and Neonfassaden the business towers. The temperatures are warm, it blows a gentle breeze, filled with the salty taste of sea water in the port and run an end-of ferries! This scenery is so impressive that it can hardly be adequately described in words. The previously visited cities we are to stand as very attractive in memory, but in the middle of Sydney and all the famous and really uniformly very impressive landmark in front of you, the mix between modern and traditional architecture, the waterfront location, the absolutely impressive city, propose anything previously seen!
first time we stroll through the oldest District of The Rocks and are on course to the Visitor Centre. There we shower us with all sorts of plans and information before we indulge ourselves in a cozy open-air launch overlooking Opera House and Skyline a palatable aperitif! :-)
How well it feels so completely out of work ... - easy travel, spend from one place to another, and then in places like these to come by, and to wonder - that's definitely wanting more!
While we enjoy the aperitif is and what little food the sun and a lightning discharges over the city. An hour later, it dries off and now lights up the skyline from the darkness. The white sail roofs Opera Houses of the reach into the black night sky. Behind the wide-lit curved arch of the bridge chip. The camera runs on intensive operation and we're shooting several rounds before and at the opera. Simply fantastic. At 10 clock in the evening we go spontaneously to a ferry that goes to the opposite side of town. A small harbor cruise at night with many attractions in the view ... Sydney by night on the water and a gentle breeze on the shirt ... it are definitely harder fate!
The next morning - we have last night just after midnight, the last bus back caught the camping site! - We make it comfortable . Address Just across the parking lot next to us once again gentlemen quartered in the home country, so you profusely about experiences and future, about the origin and destiny, and has about this and that. It will come off shortly after noon before we do. Again, we jet to the express bus into town. Camping site - Downtown 40 minutes, the walk to the bus stop takes about the same length as the bus ride itself
Again, we sneak around the impressive streets of the city heading to Circular Quay. There we boarded the ferry to Darling Harbour. Darling Harbour is situated very close to the other side of Circular Quay, it is once by boat under the Harbour Bridge through to the back - but no less attractive - side of the inner city. Darling Harbour has long been considered a blot on the city, with dilapidated warehouses and dilapidated port facilities. The 200-year celebrations in 1988 and in view of the Olympic Summer Games 2000, the district has been decked out with a lot of effort. The entrance to the ferry is already promising. members around the docks of the "Cockle-Bay" to trendy bars and good restaurants. Even the Australia Maritime Museum was created there. The harbor old battleships and submarines that are reminiscent of less peaceful times. At a time when Australia in the 2nd World War on the Side of America has fought (and was mercilessly bombed by the Japanese). has founded the super-impressive sailing boat made of wood with which Captain Cook sailed in 1770 on Jackson's Bay, where the settlement which is now called Sydney, is also a replica of the "Endavour" in the harbor.
The ferry rides are ideal as a cheap city sightseeing tours by water. Probably the most convenient urban transportation that you can imagine. And even on days like this: temperatures of 35 degrees, and at the very low humidity. Since it is on the ship at a slightly cooling sea breeze really refreshing. And while you curve again and again to the unique skyline - it's just the middle of it!
This afternoon we enjoy thoroughly the casual life and the relaxed atmosphere in Darling Harbour. Over a glass of white wine we obtain information about details and the sites of the city, to talk about past travel experiences and plan the next trip already mentally. We see how to address the low sun shining on the glass facades of high-rises and dips in Darling Harbour soft lighting. You can say what you like and taste can be so well known, not contentious in our view is one that undoubtedly Sydney's most beautiful cities we have ever seen. Simply amazing! Each was a visit to this Settlement at Port Jackson recommend highly placed and those that they already know and have seen to know why we rave about it!
There are even or especially the contradictions that make Australia as a tourist destination so interesting. A country of the tropics to the temperate and sometimes even cold regions in the south. Loneliest landscapes, endless deserts, forests and lakes, sand and meadows, beaches and cliffs, rough and barren, and then sweet and full of freshness. Cosmopolitan and attractive cities and people who love the country and their guests. Helpful (exceptions will eventually everywhere) and loose. NO WORRIES! :-)
And once again begins a new Day. We have the feeling that time passes more quickly than they already do in everyday life! Today's is warm and quite hot, so it promises to in the morning at half past seven on the roof of our tent campers scorching sun. Because we like to go by ferry, we have decided to chug to Manly. A district in the north of Sydney with a beautiful bay beach and a cozy atmosphere. Only 7 miles from Sydney, but 1000 miles away from all worries (so says an old native wisdom). And one of the finest small ship traveling the world, finally a ferry ride to Manly will be. Less than half an hour it will take a boat there. Get out, once along the Corso (Pedestrian zone) and you is on the Beach. Beach life and surfing scene outside the front door of the big city. No wonder, the beautiful beach suburb a popular destination of Sydneysiders. It idles perfectly at the large beach, but the brisk business there, but due to size and extent is still enough room for everyone there. After extensive horizontal recovery Treat yourself to a refreshing shower and then it wanders slowly through the old colonial houses lined Fussängerstrasse "The Corso Manly. The front of the port - in fact, called here the "Wharf" - there are several nice pubs "seaside" where we have a cold beer at the tranquil harbor atmosphere affect us and watch the incoming and outgoing ferries in the gentle evening becoming light.
And then we go on the last boat back towards Sydney to Circular Quay. The atmosphere now exceeds that in the evening again from noon to impressiveness. Currently, where the low sun its last rays of light on the water and the lake shores throws exudes the legendary region of all its beauty. Gone is it to the prominent rock heads of the North and South Heads, which form a natural barrier between the open sea and the sheltered bay of Jackson Bay. And a little further forward, turning the ship to port and then once again puts the entire Sydney skyline into view - behind the red sinking sun, which makes a few ragged clouds look like art, painting the sky. We are first and foremost on the ship, the sea breeze on your face and your jaw to once again foot height! "Saaagenhaft", this sight - images and scenes that you never forget!
for the next and unfortunately the last day we have again written a little sightseeing in the specification. Finally, we explored the city too little and that it were lying at the foot of the green belt - the Botanic Garden - not yet seen. The temperature has in the past 24 hours once bought a spike. Shortly before noon, when we stand after a tour criss-cross the city, past the modern glass towers, along with old houses, with pedestrian streets and lively promenade in front of the gates of Hyde Park, the thermometer to the round of 40 degrees C. . Water, which evaporates the top will flow "in the same breath again ... - a scorcher burns from the sky and shining of the asphalt gradually become softer leave. Even the extremely heat-tolerant lady of our group of two can not resist the odd sigh! :-)
Nevertheless, we stick to our plan, nor the extreme point of go to Botanic Gardens - not air-conditioned bus as the Asians, but to walk. Finally,'s words: "Only where you were walking, you were really"! At this extreme point, there is a rock under shady trees, in the 150 years before on a "chair" chiselled was - the "Mrs. Maquarie-Chair ". A point that after the wife of the 1st Governors of Sydney was named as the lady held picnics there like elitist - it at least tells the story. From this point, a sensational panorama of the city with all the landmarks in view. Although these were not yet built in the time Mrs Macquarie, probably the quiet place in the lush green of the botanical gardens and with direct water impulse even then without a doubt have had a fascination! We certainly do there extensively march break, refresh the overheated foot soles in the water and bring the camera used.
You have to overcome the city planned a large wreath was laid out with as much detail love this spacious park. At the foot of the city, between opera and water, with palm trees and flower gardens, natural stone and rock formations, water games and Boitopen - and with much life in it, animal and human. It will be held open-air concerts and dance shows and all recreation and relaxation seekers are below the shade of giant trees. And all of immediately prior to the skyscrapers of the City. A mix of "tastes" very very well!
will at some point we defeated our spirit of discovery, but because of scorching heat. We set sail opera board Circular Quay and Darling Harbour boat to first-best "shadow side", where we carry liquid in different variants. :-)
For a long time, probably the last time we submit the appeal of this beautiful city on the water and see how to build thunderclouds. Such Glutofenhitze can only in a fierce thunderstorm unloaded ... Within an hour the thermometer drops by about half (from 40 to 20 degrees!) And we begin in the darkness, shivering slightly on the way home. Shivering, because it has become cooler, but above all because it is time to "goodbye" to say.
Sun Sydney four days are like sand trickled through his fingers and we would have been enough do not double the time to be really tired. Too big the city to its varied facets, too many to their superlatives and too beautiful, their presence or appearance. We enjoyed it, being here was a stranger and look forward - who knows? - To the next time!
we do enjoy ourselves now, however, on the next targets. It waits for the Australian east coast on us, we take-off in the remaining time in appearances are. Famous names such as Byron Bay or Fraser Iceland stand as the next items on the map. We look forward to your going there again accompanied us and you enjoy the tour of Australia's largest city! Take care and see you soon!
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