澳大利亚悉尼(3)

悉尼著名的景点和相片

of the opera house on weekends and a craft market on the forecourt on sunday.

the rocks

the rocks is the oldest, quaintest part of sydney. today it is

unrecognizable from the squalid, overcrowded and plague-ridden place it used to be. reinvented by visionaries in the building industry and the trade union movement in the 1970s, the rocks is now a sanitized, historical tourist precinct, full of cobbled streets, colonial buildings and stuffed

koalas. if you ignore the kitsch, a stroll around the rocks can be delightful. attractions include the weekend market, the earth exchange geological and mining museum, and numerous craft shops and art galleries.

but it's the old buildings, alleyways and historic facades that attract most visitors. try exploring the less developed areas in the contiguous suburb of millers point, which has not sacrificed its community life to the tourist dollar. check out the lord nelson brewery hotel and the hero of waterloo, two of sydney's oldest pubs.

circular quay

circular quay is built around sydney cove and is considered by many to be the focal point of the city. the first european settlement in australia grew around the tank stream which now runs underground into the