Sydney

Sydney - Taste of the Special is Here

Like every big city of the world, Sydney, the largest city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales, is flooded with attractions that compete amongst themselves for the visitors’ attention. With myriad attractions sashaying at every straight and bend, even the most collected visitor is going to be caught off-balance trying to append priority tag to where it belongs. The conventional counsel on entering a big city like Sydney is to look for a quiet corner, bring out the pamphlets from the bag, open them one after the other, to get the feel of where to go. With Sydney, things may not yield the desired result until the last minute of the vacation. Reason: the attractions are many, varied, and indeed enticing and so they all deserve being on the priority list of where to go and what to see.

Sydney is a special kind of experience. On the memory lane to Sydney is the Super Olympics that it gives unto the world. To have watched it gives the pulse of Sydney traveling with Australia to its aboriginal origins which were traceable to what we said before about the supercontinent of Gondwana whose split led to the dispersal of peoples and places. But that is only a part of Sydney, a parameter that is a variable or a constant depending on whether one is ready to give honour to whom or what is due or keep it to get tormented by it. The truth is that because it is good and so grand, that Olympics remains a constant for all times.

That’s not the only constant of Sydney. Another is that it is one of the most multicultural cities in the world and the major destination for immigrants in Australia.  The history of Sydney illustrates the aboriginal origins of Australia we said. As respect for this aboriginal origins, the culture of the Aborigines  was given a prominent exposure and was colourfully displayed during the opening ceremony of Sydney Olympic Games in year 2000.

And here lies the romance of Sydney. Its absolutely rural beginning of villages flowing and folding into one another to transform into a modern city is an invitation to poetic imagination. Here is the story of how the hut becomes the Sydney Tower, the tallest building in the city, how the theatre plays of simple folks become the Sydney Opera, indeed how simple beginnings constitute the foundations of lofty edifices and places of attraction in Sydney that include Sydney Opera House, Sydney Harbour Bridge, St. Mary's Cathedral, Royal Botanic Gardens, Queen Victoria Building, Market Street, George Street, Hyde Park, Circular Quay, Darling Harbour, Woolloomooloo Bay, and more.