21 Things To Do When You Are in Sydney

Are you in Sydney? Then you will look for many things to enjoy and visit. With fantastic and stunning beaches, cultural festivals, cafes, pubs, and shopping centres, you will have a great time entertaining yourself. Here are 21 things that you will love to do in this beautiful city.

1. Take a Free Walking Tour

Free walking tours are organized in Sydney every day, which you can enjoy for 3 hours with the help of a local guide. Free Walking Tours walk every day at 10:30 am and 2:30 pm, and you will see sights you will love to visit again.

2. Enjoy Bondi to Coogee Coastal Walk

To walk this coastal path, you first need to reach Bondi Beach. It would be best if you caught the train from Central to Bondi Junction, then a bus to go here for a beautiful coastal walk with plenty of coves and beaches to visit. You will also find time to swim or enjoy your favourite drink and food. The walk starts behind Bondi Icebergs and usually takes about an hour and a half.

3. Take Ferry to Manly from Circular Quay

View stunning Sydney Harbour, Opera House, and Harbour Bridge while enjoying the ferry ride and your stay at Manly Beach.

4. Visit the Royal Botanic Gardens

It is a great picnic place to enjoy harbour views from the botanical gardens. Walk from the Opera House to Mrs Macquarie’s Chair for one of the best vantage points in Sydney.

5. Learn to Surf at Bondi Beach

Want to learn to surf at Bondi, Sydney’s iconic beach? Then it is the perfect place. The beach faces south, so you are protected, and the surf is not so wild. Let’s Go Surfing is the only learn-to-surf company in Bondi.

6. Climb the Sydney Harbour Bridge

Climbing one of the most famous bridges in the world is a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Take a dawn, day, twilight, or night climb and enjoy the breathtaking views. For more information, visit BridgeClimb.com.

7. Walk Across the Sydney Harbour Bridge

Enjoy solo or with friends and family by walking across the Harbour Bridge and taking in the same panoramic views on a lower level. OR, visit the Pylon Lookout for just $11 and get fantastic views plus three levels of exhibits and learn about the history of the Bridge.

8. Walk through Hyde Park

Hyde Park is Australia’s oldest park and the city’s central open green space. The park contains St. Mary’s Cathedral plus numerous monuments and statues, and the central pathway is an impressive fig-lined road.

9. Visit Sydney Tower

Sydney Tower is Sydney’s tallest free-standing structure at 309 meters above the CBD. It has an observation deck, and for an unforgettable Sydney experience, consider the Sky Walk 268 meters above the city streets, looking through a glass floor.

10. Enjoy Sunset Cruise on the Harbour

You can opt to take a private cruise on Sydney Harbour. Each sail has a maximum of 12 people, helping you to feel like you are more on a sailing day out with friends than a tour. Visit SeaSydneyCruises.com.au for more information.

11. Take Razorhurst Bar Tour

The Razorhurst Bar Tour is a tour of some of Sydney’s infamous small bars in Darlinghurst. This now trendy neighbourhood used to be full of illegal shenanigans: bootlegging, laneway gambling, buzzing brothels, drugs, and bloody razor gang fights. Visit BarTours.com.au for more details.

12. Visit the Art Gallery of NSW

The Art Gallery of NSW is one of Australia’s leading art museums, with five levels of art with extensive collections of Australian, Aboriginal, European, Asian, and contemporary art. This art gallery is located adjacent to the Royal Botanic Gardens.

13. Visit Taronga Zoo

The World Class Taronga Zoo is situated on Sydney Harbour in a natural bushland setting with spectacular views out over the Harbour. With a wide variety of animals worldwide, shows, keeper talks, and animal encounters all day, it makes for a great family outing.

14. Hit the Beaches

Sydney’s beaches are famous and free to enjoy (besides the parking fees). You have many great beaches, from the Northern Beaches to the Eastern Suburbs. Our favourites include Palm Beach, Freshwater, Dee Why, Manly, Queenscliff, Balmoral, Bronte, Clovelly, and Coogee, and you must visit Bondi at least once.

15. Take Helicopter Flight

Why not take a helicopter flight to the skies and get an amazing view of Sydney’s beaches, coves, harbour precinct, and city skyline?

16. Enjoy Surry Hills

A top inner-city neighbourhood and one of Sydney’s most artistically vibrant with old terrace homes, Surry Hills offers a great mix of cafes, restaurants, wine bars, and pubs serving various cooking styles and cultures.

17. Visit Paddington

Known for art galleries, cafes, restaurants, and rows of pretty Victorian terraces, Paddington is a great place for fashion and boutique shopping on and around Oxford Street. The famous Paddington markets are held on Saturdays.

18. Visit Darlinghurst

The main drag, Oxford Street, hosts the internationally famous Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. Darlinghurst is great for dining out, as well as small bars and fashion boutiques.

19. Visit Manly

Manly is one of Sydney’s premier seaside suburbs for one and all. Wander the palm tree-lined Corso, then hit the promenade on the beach. There’s sheltered swimming in an ocean pool, an aquarium, great fish and chips, ice cream shops, pubs, and a sophisticated dining scene.

20. Enjoy Darling Harbour

This lively harborside precinct is just a 10-minute walk from the CBD. It offers waterside restaurants, cafes, nightlife, and a large kids' playground. The precinct also plays host to the IMAX theatre, the Convention Centre, and the Aquarium.

21. Peek through Newtown

It is a colourful inner-west neighbourhood. Wander King Street for great coffee, where over 140 restaurants offering ethnic cuisines, funky bars, and beer gardens will attract you.

Enjoy Sydney to the fullest.