Day Three: May 29th

Taronga Zoo



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The Taronga Zoo: Taronga Zoo is one of Australia's most renouned zoos. It takes part in global parterships as well as wildlife conservation. This zoo, opened in 1916, has over 2,600 animals. It has many exotic animals in both indoor and outdoor exhibits.

Day Two: May 28th

Sydney Tower and Walsh Bay



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The Syndey Tower: The height including the spire; to the top of the roof is 275m high
One of the first things you notice about Sydney's crowded skyline is the amazing needle-like structure that dominates it. Sydney Tower stands 304 metres high and from street level it seems to pierce the clouds. Opened in 1981 Sydney Tower is still the tallest building in Sydney and its circular viewing platform - within its Turret structure - is the highest observation deck in the Southern Hemisphere.

Walsh Bay: Walsh Bay is located on the norther part of Sydney, near the Rocks (the area where I am living)and it gives you a psectacular view of the opera house. You can also see the Sydne Harbour Bridge right above you.

Day 1: May 27th

* All my dates and times will be the local Sydney Time



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The Blue Mountains: The Blue Mountains have slowly evolved over hundreds of millions o years. The cliffs of the upper Blue Mountains belong to the Narrabeen Group of layers formed 248-213 million years ago. At that time, huge swamps gradally turned to coal as a result of being covered with river sediment. Ancient river systems dumpedvast quantities of sand over the regions.

The Three Sisters: The eroded rigde formation of the Three Sisters is part of tge Seven Sisters and has a profound spiritual significance for Aboriginal people.

The Legend: The Aboriginal dream-time legend has it that three sisters, 'Meehni', 'Wimlah' and Gunnedoo' lived in the Jamison Valley as members of the Katoomba tribe.

These beautiful young ladies had fallen in love with three brothers from the Nepean tribe, yet tribal law forbade them to marry.


The brothers were not happy to accept this law and so decided to use force to capture the three sisters causing a major tribal battle.

As the lives of the three sisters were seriously in danger, a witchdoctor from the Katoomba tribe took it upon himself to turn the three sisters into stone to protect them from any harm. While he had intended to reverse the spell when the battle was over, the witchdoctor himself was killed. As only he could reverse the spell to return the ladies to their former beauty, the sisters remain in their magnificent rock formation as a reminder of this battle for generations to come.