Continuing our post from Thursday, here are 4 more Australian hot spots to make your Sydney, Australia vacation more memorable.

Café Hernandez
For a great cup of coffee any time of the day, head to this family-owned Potts Point café. It’s open 24-hours a day, seven days a week, and serves delightful Spanish treats.

Red Eye Records
This music store is the best place to pick up new music, rare records, and tickets to the hottest local shows.

Naturally Australian
Located at Circular Quay West, this shop offers the most tasteful Australian souvenirs. Here you can pick out a bowl, box, or piece of furniture carved from sassafras and other Australian woods.

Paddy’s Market
If you want to bring home inexpensive, kitschy souvenirs, this Chinatown market is the place. Kangaroo oven mitts and Opera House shot glasses abound.

We hope that these Sydney must-see sights will help you get more vacation from your vacation.  Make your trip even more unique and use our travel planning resources to help get your dream vacationn underway.

Combined with the adventurous Outback, the world-renowned Great Barrier Reef and the charm of the Aussie people, Australia is a travel destination that can’t be outdone.   On your travels to the land down under get off the beaten path on your Sydney, Australia vacation by visiting these must-see sites.

Justice & Police Museum
Starting as a colony for convicts, Sydney’s first residents were quite colorful. Journey back in time at this unusual museum for a real-life story of cops and robbers.

Brett Whiteley Studio
When renowned Australian artist Brett Whiteley died of a drug overdose in 1992, his wife turned his studio into a memorial, leaving everything just the way it was. Here, you can get inside the mind of this notorious artist as you stand in his workspace and bedroom.

Clovelly Beach
While the masses head to Sydney’s famous Bondi Beach, make a beeline to serene Clovelly Beach. Its calm waters are perfect for snorkeling or swimming laps. Waverley Cemetery, where poet Henry Lawson is buried, is also nearby.

Barefoot Bowling
Once considered a sport for Australia’s elderly, lawn bowling has made a comeback. Grab a beer, kick off your shoes, and join the trendy at Paddington Bowling Club for this quirky pastime.

Check back on Tuesday next week for Part #2 of our Sydney, Australia not-to-be-missed sights.  Start planning your Australia vacation today!

Vacation in Sydney, Australia and tour Sydney Harbour.  On your sightseeing adventure see the Sydney Opera House, one of the 20th century’s most distinctive buildings.  The opera house is a multi-venue performing arts complex and was added to the UNESCO World Heritage Site list on June 28, 2007.  Aside from hosting many touring productions, the opera house is home to Opera Australia, The Australian Ballet, the Sydney Theatre Company and the Sydney Symphony.

As the Harbor stretches its turquoise tentacles into every inner suburb of Sydney, the 70 beaches that lace the city’s edges have created a hedonistic surf culture on a par with Rio and Waikiki.  The most beloved of the urban beaches is Bondi (pronounced Bond-eye).  Here, between sandstone headlands at the eastern fringe of the city, the long glassy rollers of the Pacific Ocean thunder onto a half-mile of golden powdery sand.

In the 1920s, Bondi was a modest version of Coney Island, where city dwellers in need of fresh air would travel here by a rattling tram to cool off with an ice cream or cheap fish-and-chips by the sea.  In the 1950s, the surf craze arrived from Hawaii, luring thousands with their boards into the crashing surf.  And since the 1990s, Bondi has gentrified, attracting millionaires and movie stars.

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Sydney Harbor is Australia’s most renowned natural feature – a glorious, deep water inlet where yachts flit past the vast pearly shells of the Opera House and under the  soaring steel arc of the Harbor Bridge.  (Completed in 1932, it is referred to locally as “the Coat Hangar”).  Today, over 200 years since it was settled by the British, the Harbor remains surprisingly in touch with nature.  Much of the shorefront, Australia’s most valuable real estate, is still protected as national park land: Walking tracks curve through eucalyptus-fringed wilderness filled with boisterous native birdlife and up along high sandstone cliffs riddled ancient Aboriginal rock carvings.  Read the rest of this entry »