Sydney Australia

Sydney is Australia’s oldest and largest city on the east coast built around one of the most spectacular harbours in the world. Popular for its Opera House, harbour and bridge, Sydney has also lesser-known attractions like the historic Rocks, Victorian-era Paddington, heavenly beaches such as Bondi and Manly, and two superb coastal national parks on the city fringe.

Students from all over the world want to study in Sydney, where they can get a top quality education including English classes, vocational training, and universities, covering the complete range of academic areas, while experiencing one of the world's truly magnificent cities.

There is an array of ethnic groups; especially the Chinese community has played an important role in altering the city’s Anglo-Mediterranean fabric, and in preparing it to become a key player in Asia.

The Olympic Games 2000 were successful and Sydney is just the place to combine relaxed hedonism, brash, industriousness and look-at-me antics. The city is built on land once occupied by the Eora-tribe, whose presence lingers in the place names of some suburbs and whose artist’s legacy can be seen at many Aboriginal engraving sites around the city.

The harbour divides Sydney into northern and southern halves, with the Sydney Harbour Bridge and the Harbour Tunnel joining the two shores. The city centre and most places of interest are south of the harbour. “Port Jackson” is both a major port and the city’s playground. It stretches 20 km inland to the mouth of the “Parramatta River”.

The beaches on Sydney’s harbour are generally sheltered, calm coves with little of the frenetic activity of the ocean beaches. Lady Bay (nude), Camp Cove and Nielson Park are on the south shore. The harbour beaches at Manly Cove, Reef Beach, Elontarf, Chinaman’s Beach and Balmoral are on the North Shore.

Worth-seeing are the “Sydney Harbour Bridge”, the “Sydney Opera House”, the “Circular Quay”, the “Justice &Police Museum”, the Australia’s oldest cathedral “St Andrews Cathedral”, the “Australian National Maritime Museum” and the “Royal Botanic Gardens”.

There are plenty hostels in Sydney. If you want to sleep in the city centre you should go to the “Sydney Central YHA” or the “Wanderers on Kent”. They offer a night in a dorm for A$ 24-25.

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