December
22
One day trip @ Sydney, Australia
Continue from my previous blog, let’s start my year 090808 one day trip in Sydney, Australia!
Sydney, the capital of New South Wales, is Australia’s oldest and largest city with a population of around 4 million. Sydney is built around a huge harbour and hosts many tourist attractions as well as a number of beaches, bays and a couple of national parks.[Source from www.australianexplorer.com]
During my business trip, Jaynee and CY also came to Sydney, Australia. They met up with me a day before and stayed together with me 
. Then, tomorrow morning we will go to Paddy’s market together.
The next day, we wake up early and from Four Season Hotel, we walked to Circular Quay train station.
We reached Circular Quay station. We were going to Central Station.
Central Station
Central Railway Station (also known as Sydney Terminal) is the largest railway station in Sydney. It is located on the southern end of the Sydney CBD. It services almost all of the lines on the CityRail network, and is the major terminus for interurban and interstate rail services. Central Station houses the operations of New South Wales Railways. Central sits beside Railway Square and is officially located in Haymarket. Central is the station closest to the University of Technology Sydney at Broadway. [Source from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia]
Walked from Central Station to Sydney’s Paddy Markets. We passed by this garden.
Sydney’s Paddy Markets
The Haymarket Paddy’s is located in the ‘Market City’ site, beside Chinatown and is more like a traditional flea market, specialising in cheap imported clothes, giftware and also has a small section for fruit, vegetables and seafood. Paddy’s Haymarket also sells souvenirs which makes it popular with tourists.You can get alot cheap souvenirs, cloth, food in the markets. [Source from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia]
When I took photo at Darling Harbour, one guy suddenly jump out from behind. Then , we just cheers to camera ^^
After Paddy Markets, me and Jaynee say goodbye because I was going back to hotel check out and meet my buddy – Lynn . I passed by Chinatown. From there, I took bus back to Four Season Hotel.
So happy to see Lynn The first station she brought me to is The Rock.
Rock Markets
The rock
The Rocks are situated in Sydney’s city centre on the western side of Circular Quay, and was the area of the first European settlement in 1788. Before the 1820′s it was full of convicts and prostitutes, although this has changed from slums to three-story houses.[Source from www.circularquat.net]
Then, we walked to Circular Quay. Lynn n me
Luke and Me
View of Sydney Opera House So beautiful !
The Sydney Opera House was completed in 1973 and was designed by Joern Utzon. The first public performance being Prokofiev’s ‘War and Peace’, and the acoustics are fabulous. From outside the Sydney Opera House looks remarkable and if you get up close you will be able to see several of the million or so ceramic tiles which cover the Sydney Opera House shells. [Source from www.australianexplorer.com]
View of Sydney Harbour Bridge
The Sydney Harbour Bridge was finished on Saturday 19th March 1932 and opened by Jack Lang, costing $20 million.All types of people use the bridge with access to cyclists on the West side and pedestrians on the East side, as well as vehicles.
The bridge is the largest steel arch bridge in the world being 134 metres high, 49 metres wide with a curve of 503 metres. The bridge has six million rivets in total, and weighs 52,800 tonnes. It stretches from Dawes Point on one side of the Sydney Harbour to Milsons Point on the other.[Source from www.australianexplorer.com]
After Circular Quay, we went to Featherdale Wildlife Park
Featherdale Wildlife Park
Want to see Australia’s unique wildlife in a natural bush setting? At Featherdale, we’ve gone out of our way to create a unique wildlife experience?within the Sydney metropolitan area!
You can hand feed a kangaroo, wallaby or emu – or enjoy a face-to-face encounter with one of our friendly koalas – amongst one of Australia’s largest private collections of Australian native animals and bird life.
For more information, visit to http://www.featherdale.com.au/index.htm
Every visitor will have one “Passport”. You will see a few animal’s picture inside the passport. You will need to go and look for them.
Once you found the animal in the passport, you will get a chop and stamp it! Means that you have visited this animal I am sure the kids enjoy this
First time I saw Kangaroo with this short distance!
The kangaroo so scared me 
Southern Cassowary
Australian Shelduck
Feeding Kangaroo!
Not sure what this bird called ??
Let’s me show you the most cuttest animal in Sydney ~ Lovely Koala Bear
Koala Bear was crawling
Koala Bear was looking around
Koala Bear was sleeping ZZZzZ
Sleep so tightly oh
Cute lor ^^
Hehe ^^ I got the koala bear stamp!
The peacock was so freedom to walk around.
So beautiful ~
White Peacock! Like a King standing there…
White Kangaroo
I scared to feed this big bird … Thus, Luke feed them
Yo~ First time saw black pigeon! like Men in Black ^^
I like this pigeon’s color… like a pink lady
Colorful Pigeon
Featherdale Wildlife Park is really a nice place to visit Thanks Lynn and Luke for bringing me here ^^ and also thanks Gim for giving us the discount voucher
We went to DFO (Direct Factory Outlet) shopping mall to have our lunch.
Inside the shopping mall
Inside the car..
Stopped by a stadium ~
Unable to catch the sunset view at Bondi beach, thus we stopped by here to see the sunset… But the sun went down so fast Miss it~
Reached Bondi.
Bondi Beach!
Nice?
Bondi Beach is about one kilometre long and receives many visitors throughout the year. Surf Life Saving Australia has given different hazard ratings to Bondi Beach in 2004. While the northern end has been rated a gentle 4 (with 10 as the most hazardous), the southern side is rated as a 7 due to a famous rip current known as the “Backpackers’ Express” because of its proximity to the bus stop, and the unwillingness of tourists to walk the length of the beach to safer swimming. The south end of the beach is generally reserved for surfboard riding. Yellow and red flags define safe swimming areas, and visitors are advised to swim between them. [source from http://en.wikipedia.org]
So cool here ^^ . For more information about Bondi beach, you can visit to http://www.bondibeach.com/
Have dinner with Gim, Gim’s sister and friends Do you see the big plate of food infron us! It was not a decoration but is Real food Got oyster, lobster, prawn, squid and etc. Thanks for the dinner ^^ I enjoyed so much .
We went for a drink after dinner…
Try hot chocalate again… This time came with heart shape
The next day…
View from Lynn’s house
I slept till dont know Lynn already woke up -> went to market -> finished cook breakfast ^^ So touch that she cooked for me ^^. Although just a simple breakfast but feel yummy
Lynn n Me She was my ex-neighbour, we always played together since we was young Really miss those days… can the time went back?
Lynn brought me for Dim Sum..Sunny Harbour Seafood Restaurant…
The Dim Sum was nice!
Thanks Connie for the meet up! Just a short while but we talked alot because long time no see
Sad…need to take flight back to Singapore lar~
Taking Singapore Airlines A380 (The biggest double decker aeroplane of SIA). This aeroplane was really huge!
Bye Bye Sydney! Really wish that I can stay more days Hope I can come Sydney look for Lynn again!
Lynn, appreciate so much that you n Luke spent the whole weekend for me. I really feel so happy that I have a buddy like you ^^ Although we separate with each other for quite a long time… But when met you, the feeling never changed…always my ‘Xiao Lynn’. Miss You and take k always
June 22nd, 2011 at 1:13 pm
meiqi, lynn is the next door neighbour in TI? she is now in Sdyney? time flies, she is so big girl liao…
June 24th, 2011 at 1:20 pm
Ya ~ time flies right
Me also so big liao X_X haha.. 30 comes =.=”’
June 24th, 2011 at 1:48 pm
send my regards to her, if she still remember me
you big girl, i already aunty liao…
June 25th, 2011 at 5:25 pm
no la..u’re pretty mama
September 4th, 2011 at 2:48 am
hi,looks great,,may i ask?
I’m going to visit australia, but as I googling around and came across http://www.evisaasia.com, it stated the visa is only for single entry, does anyone know is there any way to get multiple entry visa? Currently I’m in Malaysia. need travel more than 1months.any help?
September 4th, 2011 at 5:43 pm
Hi Shasha, visa to Austrialia seem like allow for multiple entries but there are some term and conditions. You may go to http://www.eta.immi.gov.au/ETAAus5En.html. to find out more info.
- Valid for visits to Australia for tourism or to visit friends or relatives
- Valid for multiple visits within 12 months from date of issue
- Maximum length of each visit is three months
- Condition 8101 – You must not work while in Australia
- Condition 8201 – You must not study for more than 3 months
- Condition 8527 – You must be free from tuberculosis
- Condition 8528 – You must not have any criminal convictions for which you have been sentenced for a total combined period of 12 months or more, whether or not the sentence/s were served
I only able to share the infos with you but unable to advise you the exact rules
So, if you want to get the exact answer, you may contact them via http://www.immi.gov.au/contacts/