The free walking tour courtesy of Peaktour. Total of 4km!

Yup, that's right 4km! Them alone....So get your walking shoes ready and a bottle of water. Basically Peaktour is the same like any other free walking tour in any other tourist city, it's free, you just give the local guide a tip at the end of the tour base on how much YOU think it's worth. I think there's a dozen more other tour groups that operate this way in Sydney but we chose this one since.....it's the one on the hostel pamphlet. Haha. It has 2 sessions per day, one at 8am and the other at 2pm. It walks you through the Rocks(the old part of Sydney), into the city, pass some attractions, stops for photos at famous landmarks, gives some useful tips like where to get the cheapest food and cheapest bar. Talk a bit about history of Australia and how it was form from convicts to a nation. How they are really into drinking. And at the end we had group photo with the Bridge and Opera House at the back. This was taken inside the Botanical Gardens. I think it's the most perfect place to take a photo of the two landmarks (if you don't have a wide angle cam) other than 1) Taking a boat to Manly Island (where they say gives stunning photos of the two if you have time! especially at sunset) or   2) Aeriel view. Haha.

                                                                Drooled over this!

Part of the Rocks

So we finish the tour at about 1pm and went scouring for food in the big city (had to find Halal food but found none so we just ate fish fillet). Stuffed, we headed to Paddy market and went strolling in there until it was dark- only to realise that the market was actually on the ground floor! And it was already about to close when we realised it *smacks head*.

Feeling like total fools, we headed back to our hostel walking....going through Oxford street and Darlinghurst road. My feet were crying i think that night.   

Kings Cross Sydney

A little bit about the first night in Sydney, after we got to our room, we decided to look around the area ...see if there were any shops we could get some food. As always, me and my sense of directions, we went the total opposite way. We headed down Victoria street downdowndown and came to these steps. Thank god we didn't go down the steps.Haha.

 Had our first view of the Sydney Bridge! albeit far away.

                                                   

As you can see from the map, down Victoria Street, there were no shops there. Made a u-turn at Chalis Ave and up towards Macleay street and finally....we found dozens of restaurants! It was actually the centre of that part of Kings cross (It's famous as the red light district of Sydney!). We did not research up about Kings cross area and the red light district only became apparent when we saw countless bars and adult shops along the streets, bikers wheeling in and strippers(i guess) and bouncers hanging out and about the streets. It was still around 8-9pm (already dark) and there were quite a lot of tourist walking around the area so it was quite safe, but not too sure about what happens after midnight. Haha.

  The famous flashing Coca Cola neon sign

                                                                El Alamien Fountain