Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Sydney,AustraliaⅠ

Sydney is the captial of the New South Wales,also is the biggest port city of Australia.It is the international metropolis as the biggist financial centre of Australia.Also it is an international tourist destination famous for it's beach,opera house and harbour bridge.Now let's travel some sight spots.

Australian Museum

It was founded in 1827,locate at the college street near the Hyde Park.It is one of the top 10 world's recognized pavilion,also is the biggiest natural history museum of Australia.All of the collections are unique and treasure.

The museum collects about 8.75 million pieces, belong to anthropology, zoology, paleontology, environmental science and mineralogy. Display room main content of Australia's special natural landscape and animal, and the aborigines in Australia and Oceania Pacific islands natural and humanistic material,etc.

Opening times:
The Australian Museum is open 9.30am to 5.00pm every day except Christmas Day.
The ticket cost :
Adult     $12
Family (2 adults + 2 children)     $30
Child (5 -15 years)     $6
Children under 5 years     FREE    
More infomation you can visit it's website:http://australianmuseum.net.au/

Sydney Opera House

It is the symbol of the Sydney even Australia.One of the Seven Wonders of the World in the 20th century.The Sydney Opera House is on Bennelong Point in Sydney Harbour. It sits at the northeastern tip of the Sydney central business district (the CBD), surrounded on three sides by the harbour (Sydney Cove and Farm Cove) and inland by the Royal Botanic Gardens.

The Sydney Opera House is a modern expressionist design, with a series of large precast concrete "shells",from a distance, the shells appear a uniform white.It is among the busiest performing arts centres in the world, hosting over 1,500 performances each year attended by some 1.2 million people.

More infomation you can visit it's website:http://www.sydneyoperahouse.com/

Blue Mountains

The Blue Mountains locate about 50 km north-west of Sydney CBD.It is a magical place any time of the year. Glowing in autumn, cool in winter, colourful in spring and refreshing in summer. The Blue Mountains is densely populated by oil bearing Eucalyptus trees. The atmosphere is filled with finely dispersed droplets of oil, which, in combination with dust particles and water vapour, scatter short-wave length rays of light which are predominantly blue in colour. The Greater Blue Mountains was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 2000 and was one of 15 World Heritage places included in the National Heritage List on 21 May 2007.

Sydney Harbour Bridge

The Sydney Harbour Bridge is a steel through arch bridge across Sydney Harbour that carries rail, vehicular, bicycle and pedestrian traffic between the Sydney central business district (CBD) and the North Shore.

The Sydney Harbour Bridge opened in 1932.It is one of Australia's most well known and photographed landmarks. It is the world's largest (but not the longest) steel arch bridge with the top of the bridge standing 134 metres above the harbour.

If you go to Sydney,the Sydney Harbour with it's scenery you should to take a look.

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