Travel to Sydney : Plan Your Trip to Sydney
Shopping in AustraliaShopping There are a wide variety of quality products on offer in Australia at very competitive prices. When shopping, sightseeing or visiting theme parks on tours, remember you have a choice of where and when to shop. Shop around and compare prices and quality before you buy. This will...
Transportation in Sydney
Transportation in Sydney Most transport in Sydney is by automobiles, and there is an extensive network of large freeways and tollways (known as motorways) and roads across Sydney. The most important trunk routes in the urban area form the Metroad system. Sydney is also served by extensive train, bus and ferry...
Fauna of Australia
Fauna of Australia The fauna of Australia consists of a huge variety of unique animals; some 83% of mammals, 89% of reptiles, 90% of fish and insects and 93% of amphibians that inhabit the continent are endemic to Australia.This high level of endemism can be attributed to the continent's long...
Getting in Sydney
Getting in Sydney Most visitors to Sydney arrive at Kingsford Smith airport. Airfares to Australia are expensive - it's a long way from anywhere and flights are often heavily booked. On the upside, you can get to Australia from just about anywhere. Both of Australia's domestic airlines offer discount flight...
Festivals : Sydney
Festivals : Sydney Australia's leading cultural festival, the Sydney Festival has been a force to be reckoned with since 1976. Welcoming the world's best theatre, music, art and dance and running throughout the height of the Sydney summer, the festival starts each New Year off with an avalanche of artistic activity...
Dining in New South Wales
Traditional English fare has given way to more cosmopolitan cuisine, particularly in the country’s larger cities. Visitors can thank the post-World War II waves of immigrants from southern Europe and, more recently, from Asia who brought with them spices, garlic and a variety of recipes. Fresh local produce and seafood...
Music : Sydney
Music : Sydney Every one recognises the Opera as the iconic monument of Sydney with its incomparable volumes making the building a masterpiece of international architecture. A legend tells that, in a recent past, some big stars of the Lyric art "tested" the most difficult roles in Sydney in front of...
Education in Sydney
Education in Sydney Sydney is the site of Australia's first university, the University of Sydney. Established in Sydney in 1850, it remains one of Australia's most prestigious universities.[20] There are five other public universities operating primarily in Sydney; the University of New South Wales, Macquarie University, the University of Technology, Sydney,...
Origin and history of the name: Australia
Origin and history of the name: Australia The name Australia is derived from the Latin Australis, meaning of the South. Legends of an "unknown land of the south" (terra australis incognita) date back to the Roman times and were commonplace in mediaeval geography, but they were not based on any actual...
Weather in Australia
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Visa for Australia
Passport/Visa Requirements: Citizens of Canada and the U.S. need passports and an Electronic Travel Authority (ETA), which substitutes for a visa. The ETA is free and available through travel agents and airlines. (Most people get their ETA on the inbound flight.) Contact the nearest Australian embassy for more information. Along...
Weather in Northern Territory
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Visa for Queensland
Passport/Visa Requirements: Citizens of Canada and the U.S. need passports and an Electronic Travel Authority (ETA), which substitutes for a visa. The ETA is free and available through travel agents and airlines. (Most people get their ETA on the inbound flight.) Contact the nearest Australian embassy for more information. Along...
Faq
1.How large is Australia? Australia is the only nation to occupy an entire continent. It has a land mass of about 7.7 million square kilometers. It is the flattest of all continents and, after Antarctica, the driest of continents, yet it has extremes of climate and topography. There are rainforests...
Religion of Australia
Religion of Australia Religion in Australia is predominantly Christian, although it is a highly secularised society. There is no state religion, the establishment of which is prohibited by the Constitution. At the time of European settlement, the Indigenous Australians had their own religious traditions of the Dreamtime (as Mircea Eliade put it)...
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