Spend a nice weekend at sydney with 3 friends. here is roughly wat we did for 4 days there.
1st day 18th Sep 2004, saturday
wake up around 5am in the morning. we took taxi to melbourne domestic airport around 530. we suppose to checkin for our flight at 615. had hotcakes at macdonalds while waiting to board the plane. We touch down around 8.35am at sydney airport. The train connecting to the airport to the city is under maintainence so we took taxi to the city. there we check in into our accomodation which is city central backpackers. The room we be staying for 3 nites was ok. but the beds were kinda cannot make it. next we got ourselves a map at the tourist info centre and our 1st destination is sydney harbour. we spend the 1 to 2 hours walking to sydney harbour. halfway along the way, we pause several times to look at things and took fotos. we reach sydney harbour and walk around taking fotos. I took so mani fotos if sydney opera house. i tink mebbie got 20 fotos. haha.. coz we walk walk walk den say "wow nice view" den we pause to take foto. As we get closer to the opera house itself, we took fotos again. so the fotos if u realise is actualli from a small opera house to a big one. hahaa. den we also took fotos of the harbour bridge. Had our lunch along the circular quay. den we took a cruise to see the whole sydney harbour. on the way, we saw mani yachts and the sight was great. Wif the evening sun shining down, the cool wind blowing, the red wine, and the great view, everything was great. after the cruise we start to make our way back to the city. we had dinner wif my friends who are studying here in UNSW and den retired back in our humble accomodation.
2nd day 19th Sep 2004, Sunday
today wake up neck pain. i tink it becoz of the bed. too soft liao den like bend-in in the middle. today actualli want to go port stephens to see dolpins. but like too far liao. den dunno how to go also. so end up we do other things. 1st we had our delicious breakfast cum lunch at sydney fish market. the seafood there veri delicious. we had seafood platter and fresh salmons, oysters, one fresh lobster. yummy yum yum. den we headed back to chinatown and went to the paddy market. its like a big pasa malam, jus like melbourne's victorial market. den walk walk for half a day i tink. bought a few t-shirt for gifts. guess wat we have for dinner? we bought cup noodle and white wine for dinner. haha. exciting right haha... den went to sleep liao.
3rd day 20th Sep 2004, Monday
today as planned, our destination was Blue Mountains. Wake up early in the morning. had a quick breadfast of a bun, den went to the train station to catch a intercity train to Katoomba Station. there we hop onto the explorer bus and went to see the katoomba cascades 1st. den we walk the jungle trail to scenic world. on the way, we took pictures of the beautiful blue mountains and the famous 3 sisters rocks. At the scenic world, we had a quick lunch before taking the world steepest ride down to the valley. The ride is call mountain devil. The ride was quite short and is not scarie at all becoz it was veri slow. However it is veri steep. woooh.. this steep railway was actualli used by coal miners last time to go up and down the mountain valleys. den we took the cable car call scenicscender up back to scenic world. den next we took the bus to echo point. there we took pictures of the blue mountains and the 3 sisters. this is the place where u can see the whole blue mountains. veri nice. it is called blue mountains becoz the mountains reflect blue lights from the sun. so the blue mountains look blue. den we took the explorer bus back to the train station and took the train back to city. we had dinner at chinatown den went back to sleep.
4th day, 21st sep 2004 tuesday
today is last day we be here in sydney. got to check out of our accomodation by 10am. we decided to rent a car today so tat we can put the luggage in the car and also can travel easily. after check out we headed to bondi beach. veri beautiful the beach. tats is the place where they fimed Baywatch and the bikini babes. spend the day there suntanning and playing wif water and getting swept by the strong waves. den we had dinner at a restaurant called hurriance, recommended by my friend. we had pork ribs, the restaurant's specical. the pork rib is nice and is veri big. almost could not finish. den drove to the aiport and took the plane back to melbourne. reach melbourne around 11.15 i tink.
sydney was fun. got mani places to visit, mani things to do. unlike melbourne. so boring. but wat to do, my uni in melbourne leh hehe.. change uni huh... dun wan lah. too troublesome. aniway i only got another sem to go after this. nvr mind lah.
the fotos i oreadi uploaded on the web. follow my fotos link to see or click on the link below
http://community.webshots.com/user/japelo
tats all !!!!
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