Product Description

This handy guide is just the right size for the intrepid city wanderer. The insider guide to Asutralia's number one tourist destination, indispensible advice on the best ways to explore Sydney's harbour, parks and beaches.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #338372 in Books
• Published on: 2006-01-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 242 pages

Amazon.co.uk Review
Sydney enjoys a sybaritic reputation, but there¹s much more to the city than surf, sex and biceps, and Lonely Planet's guide conveys the spirit of the place with panache. In September 2000, the city will host the Olympic games and become a Mecca for thousands of sport aficionados. The chapter on the games and their "history at a glance" is an additional bonus in this lively and informative guide.

Like other Lonely Planet guides, the format is straightforward and accessible, with a systematic chronology. The guide kicks off with general facts about Sydney, encompassing the city's history, followed by facts for the visitor, and including general tourist information about transport, communications and so on. The section on things to see and do, with its excellent street maps, propose some inviting and descriptive walking tours. Food in Sydney is a major attraction; the "places to eat" section highlights the vibrant cuisine which reflects Sydney's cosmopolitan melange of cultures. The huge variety of entertainment available for the visitor, ranging from concerts and ballet in the legendary opera house, to the world renowned Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, is richly chronicled in the entertainment section. One of the most interesting chapters, "Excursions", highlights drives, hikes and bushwalks, and includes stunning photographs. The Blue Mountains National Park merits the several pages it's been allocated, and an unusual extra is Lonely Planet's global communications service for travellers, detailed in the last few pages.--Philippa West

Customer Reviews

Seems tailor made for us
Many guidebooks from our previous vacations have ended up barely opened, this one is already well thumbed. My wife and I are going for a long trip to Australia, including three weeks in Sydney. We already had a general guidebook to Australia, but looked at many books in search of the perfect Sydney guide - and this is it. Just about every page has something that caught my eye as a "must do". Not just the obvious sights, but more importantly plenty of quirky things that stood out as fun and memorable. Clearly a lot of work has gone into this book, and it has paid off. Highly recommended.

It's a Lonely Planet Guide!
For those of you who have previously purchased a Lonely Planet Guide, this edition provides all the high-quality information you always rely on them to provide. Approximately A5 size it's not quite pocket-sized but is still compact and gives a lot of great information about where to go, what to do, where to eat/sleep etc and the pull out map is very handy and better than a lot of the tourist ones you always get given. Very hard to find fault with this guide!

This is a guidebook to Sidney - not to the Olympic games
This is a guidebook to Sidney, no doubt a perfectly good one, but it is not ( as suggested in the synopsis) a guide to the olympic games..