Sydney on foot

Today I set out on foot to walk around Sydney's downtown. The place I am staying is relatively close, it takes about 15 minutes of walking before you hit the main downtown area, which is huge in comparison to any city I ahave been in to date. Blocks are long, and there is people everywhere, all the time. Given the city and greater area has a population of around 4.5 million, I guess that could be why.

My first stop was to be the Opera House on the harbour, and along the way I had to pass through Sydney's Domain, which also has their Botanical Gardens. Every city I have been in in either New Zealand or Sydney has a 'Domain', which is a large park, somewhere close to the centre of the city. I didn't look around the gardens too much, I'll look there another day, as it is along the way to many places I want to go.

Getting to the Opera House, you can walk all the way around it, take tours inside, even get up to the large white shells that make up it's shape. The shells themselves are actually tiled, with cream colored tiles, but at a distance, and especially when the sun hits it, it appears bright white.

I then went over to the Harbour Bridge, another attraction where you can actually walk to the top of it's arch and look over the harbour. I didn't do that today, maybe another time. I was tired of all the walking I had been doing, and walked partly across the bridge to get some better shots of the Opera House, but that was all.

I looked around in some markets, and covered a fair bit of distance in the downtown area, but after looking at a map, I realize that I only saw part of what there is to offer, so back at it tomorrow.