While the Macarthur region is technically part of greater Sydney, it’s a world away from the metropolitan rat race
With See Sydney & Beyond Smartvisit Card you have the opportunity to discover everything that Sydney has to offer.
Sydney's former quarantine station is a mix of past trials and present luxuries, with haunted houses and haute cuisine.
Go behind the scenes on a two-hour guided backstage tour to the one house in Sydney that never sleeps, the Opera House.
Stop and explore Botany Bay National Park with its combination of wilderness, historical sites and contemporary industrial frightscape.
The Hawkesbury River snakes its way through floodplains, forests and gorges making it equally good for daytrips or a weekend cruise.
Take a peek inside four of Sydney's grand, and not so grand, historic houses where the walls really can talk or at least the floors do.
Get into the spirit of things on a night-time ghost tour of The Rocks for murder, mayhem, suicides, hangings and grisly violent crime.
Sydney accommodates its surfers like few cities on earth, with some 50 different breaks between Palm Beach and Cronulla.
Sydney is a city surrounded by bushland and beaches so escape for a long weekend just a couple of hours drive away.
You don't need to visit a museum or art gallery to see the best of Sydney's art. It’s free to be found in and around streets, parks, gardens.
Take a fresh look at Sydney Harbour with an authentic glimpse into a culture that is hard to find - Sydney through a set of Aboriginal eyes.
Check-in to the past at the newly renovated Quarantine Station on North Head to experience history and the paranormal.
On the stunning trail known as Manly Scenic Walkway, the scenery is the star - sandstone headlands, vast views, sailboats and bomboras.
Take a walk on the wild side with a Crimes and Passions tour of the infamous Kings Cross, where everybody is wicked and colourful.
There is enough history in Parramatta to occupy you for a full day with some of the oldest settlement buildings left standing in Australia.
Take a trip back in time via river or road to Wisemans Ferry and St Albans, the valley that time or at least the developers forgot.
Spend a day or two discovering Sydney's colonial past, preserved to a degree in the inner-city precinct called The Rocks.
Sydney's northern beaches start at Manly and end at Palm Beach, with three beaches occupying a 2km sweep from Manly proper.
With no less than 37 national parks, reserves and state recreation areas to choose from, Sydney is a modern urban playground.
Explore Sydney with just a day-pack and some comfortable shoes on one of these ambles with a map plotted course or on the fly.
Covering an area of only 388 hectares, Sydney Harbour National Park may be small but it conveys Sydney at its dazzling best.
Near Sydney there are several reasonably well-maintained dirt roads, which require no special equipment or much off-road driving skills.