We touched down at approximately 830am local time and finally got through customs and quarantine around 9-915. It was raining a little and the sky was full of clouds, it’s still a bit surreal thinking of the fact that we’re in australia :D. Anyways, Uncle Ronald, my dad’s friend, picked us up and drove us around the town a bit.
While traveling back his usual route, roads were closed and diverted for the Anzac Day march, tomorrow is a public holiday! Anzac is similar to our Remembrance Day (wiki) in which they march to remember the fallen who fought in WWI. It’s gonna be a busy day tomorrow with the long weekend coming to an end and families coming back and the continued diversion for the march.
During our ride we drove through Kings Cross, Sydney’s nighttime Red Light District, and made a pitstop at the Mrs Macquarie’s Chair which offered a nice view around the harbour bend capturing the view of the Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge. Unfortunately there wasn’t much sun so they pictures aren’t as dramatic as they should be 😛 but pretty nice nonetheless. From here we were able to see a bunch of people walking on the bridge, the bridgeclimb we found online. But it being around 200$ each to climb it, we opted to save that money for something else. We also ran into a lone Kiwi bird, that Rosanna got up close and personal to take some better shots, hahaha… We’re planning to come back another day to tour inside of the Opera House, Botanical Gardens, Circular Quay, and a ferry down to the Sydney Harbour to Manly Beach.
After taking a quick look at the Sydney Fish Market, we found our way into Sydney’s Chinatown that mixed some korean and japanese stores in, there’s an Ajisen Ramen and an ichiban! Although not as large as Toronto’s Chinatown, it was just as busy and traffic just as horrible! Parked, we took a look around and found a large Flea Market, ‘Market City’ which had a lot of random shops that we decided to skip due to it being only the first day. An interesting addition to the city was the Monorail that went through several parts of the city, some having their own built station, others being added onto existing buildings!
Joining Uncle Ron and his weekly ‘yum cha’ sessions with a couple of his friends, we bypassed the crazy queue that awaited us on the floor at Marigold since they knew someone, or we would have wasted at least half an hour waiting… hurray! Dim sum wasn’t that different from home, their food carts were a bit more sophisticated actually 😛 We headed back to Uncle Ron’s place to unload our luggage and finally take a shower after a day on a plane. Rested a bit, and went back out to another friend’s place for a freshly caught fish dinner. What will we be doing tomorrow 0.o… Bondi beach? too busy on the streets for Blue Mountain.
Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge
Monorail Station by the Market City
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