Sydney Itinerary Feb 2013 (Day 1-3)

First time flying to Australia (Sydney) and it takes freaking 8 hours from Kuala Lumpur Malaysia to touch down. Pheww...quite a long haul! I went there for my Chinese New Year (CNY) holiday. 

Do take note that this is a family trip (6 people) whereby is very free and easy and literally it is very leisure, less adventure and some place we go does keep repeating and we are only covering Sydney city the most. We have the mighty ah ma (grandmother) with us and she is so energetic in some point I would said! 

So we went there for 7 days and 6 nights on 12- 18  February 2013. We stayed at Meriton Service Apartment which is situated at Bondi Junction Station. This is only part 1 of the itinerary which is from Day 1- Day 3. 

First tips: Do buy their MyMulti card  is like a weekly pass they offer and it depends on each zone & duration that you would choose. I save a lot on my transportation by purchasing the MyMulti 1 card based on my destination Zone 1 it cost AUD 44. This card is amazing it include train, bus, ferry & Light rail if I do not purchase it, my total expense on transportation will be crazy! 

Second tips: Buy your Mymulti card and airport link card transfer together on the same day if not; one way to transfer yourself to Sydney city from the airport cost you AUD16.70 and that's a lot! I could not recall how much when I bought the ticket but definitely not paying AUD 16.70 on single way because we bought return airport link as well. Approx AUD 20++.

Day 1

• Landed at the airport (11am) 
• From International Airport Station to Bondi Junction Station took 30 minutes to reach Bondi Junction (Eastern Suburbans & Illawarra Line)
• Check In to our hotel and have our lunch at Westfield Bondi Junction. 

Double Decker Train 

Later on we went out  to explore the city it was during evening after resting. We headed to;

•  Queen Victoria Building  (Drop of at Town Hall Station) It's a very authentic building the floors was so nice.
• Bought fresh fruits and dinner from Woolworths back to our service apartment. 
• Sending the elderly back to rest we explore ourselves to Circular Quay and we found ourselves some dessert for the night at Pancakes On The Rocks and we catch the Harbour Bridge night view as well.

Here's a picture of the main QVB building door 

Sydney Westfield 

Day 2

Wanted to go to Blue Mountain but based on weather report it was raining badly during the morning and yeah it did! So we change it to the third day.

• Circular Quay to catch ferry to Darling Harbour ( you can get nice view of the Harbour Bridge along the way.) 
• Walk to The Star Casino and have a sneak peak on the casino
• Next take the Light Train to Sydney Fish Market for lunch.
• After Lunch headed to Chinatown by using the Light Train to (Market City) 
• Chinatown/ Paddy's market/ Market City are all nearby
• My friends told me Paddy's market is the best place for souvenir and based on some Google searching all said the same thing. Is a mixture of Malaysian night market with a little spice of Thai's market too. But the place is kinda huge and they sell all sorts of souvenir, clothes and even iPhone cases.
• They even have market right beside it. The fruits are fresh too!
•  Westfield Bondi Junction- Coles to buy some ingredients for home cooked dinner.

One of the Marine time Museum display pirate boat I guess?

 Boats parked along the Star Casino

Someone drew love in the Air

Drop off from light train

Whole Pinky Shop

Day 3 
Was all about Blue Mountain and you need to reserved fully one day for it because it is far from the city with almost 2 hours train ride from Sydney Central Station to Katoomba Station and you need to take a bus to reach the destination. I bought Trolley Tours ticket on my arrival and it is a lot cheaper the shop is located opposite the Katoomba station. 

Discovery Trolley Tour + 3 Rides at Scenic World- cost AUD 49 per person. Is a hop-on hop-off bus that have a lots of stops for you to explore the place itself.

Here is the whole Blue Mountain adventure! Please feel free to read it ^_^

Here is what we eat in Sydney it summarize the things that I would like to share out and the things that I have tried.

Will continue Day 4- Day 6 itinerary soon ^_^ 

Blue Mountain; Scenic World Katoomba Australia

When I ask my friend's where I should visit during my trip to Australia most of them replied BLUE MOUNTAIN  So I did some reach and it seams that it is a famous tourist spot and a place that must visit and here am I visiting Blue Mountain. 

Took a 2 hour train ride to reach Katoomba and it is the last station of the railway indeed it is super far from the city and more country side a small district I would say.

After reaching the station I bought my tour ticket and ride from the discovery trolley tour which include 3 rides at Scenic World it cost me AUD 49. The trolley bus will take you to the main cable way of the scenic world and they also act as hop on off buses for visiting some of the small famous places eg; tea house, chocolate factory (is just a small house) LOL, candy shop and many more they will hand you an itienary on which places to visit that might interest you and you just wait for their trolley bus on each spot. They also have  fixed time for you to refer so that you wont miss the bus.

The road not taken LOL

Some white trees. Is fair tree I guess hahaha

Here we are at the scenic world cable way entrance to their souvenier shop and then took the skyway to the scenic walkway.

I look kinda furious here LOL.

Katoomba falls #1

Katoomba falls #2

Katoomba falls #3

I felt cheat towards the Katoomba falls because the water flow was literally damn little but they said when it rains you can see much water on that time. So I guess during my visit is a pretty good weather. hahahaha.

In the sky way they have the normal two windows and  they even have a floor window in the middle for us to view right from a super high height. Along the cable way they have someone to explain us the information of the surroundings. 

This is the side view left; three sister and the hump there is Jamison Valley.

The sky way make a stop at scenic walk.

Start our Scenic Walkway journey. In the  Scenic Walkway you can spend 30 minutes to an hour to explore their walkway just see which path you choose to explore.

Fern leaf picture LOL look how detail is the leaves.

Let's go!

Kissing tree is just basically two trees get together and I did not take the trees picture hahaha. So along the way we have all the trees that have their own stories all greens and fresh air. Damn nice and cooling. 

If not mistaken I think the tree stills grow although the bark is destroy LOL forgot to take the description banner for this picture hahaha.

Trees fall down idk and I cant recall why hahaha.. maybe they did some mining and they are transporting it and an accident occurs that cause the tree to falls. 

Cant even enter it just a look from the scenic walk.

With flash see their mining LOL

So after passing the mining thingy you will get to see a spectacular view of the blue mountain. 

Tadah! nice right I give you all one more brighter view LOL. But is quite sad that their scenic railway closed for almost 2++ months for redevelopment. I'm so sad because it is the most steepest passenger rail way HAIZ........ Cant even ride it. SADDDD TO THE MAXXXXXX...... 

Only picture so sad........

Okay post a funny picture to calm my self hahahaha. Tarzan man and this tree is great I think is call gum tree? or bubble gum tree coz is so elastic and you really can swing yourself just like tarzan. They have this tree almost everywhere!

So that's all for the journey! 

Breathing fresh air there hahaha