A visit to the Sydney tower gives you the opportunity to get to the highest point of Sydney – and so high is the place that in cloudy days the view from there gets obscured by the clouds, meaning that by climbing the Sydney tower, you get well into the clouds without having taken an airplane!

The height of the tower aside, though, fact is that it gives you a vantage point from where you can see much of Sydney and her surroundings. And it is also at the Sydney tower that you get the opportunity to do a skywalk- and perhaps get to fancy yourself as an astronaut out to fix some gadget on a shuttle somewhere in the outer space. In these respects, the Sydney tower space walk can be a truly exhilarating experience – and if you get to do it on your Sydney tour, it is an experience you will always live to remember.

Sydney tower has much more to offer besides sightseeing and sky-walking though.

The pass with which you gain entry to the Sydney tower is located also gives you access to the ‘Wildlife World’ – widely considered the Sydney’s newest attraction, for both residents and visitors to the city.

The wildlife world – to which you get automatic entry by paying for a visit to the Sydney tower is the place to watch the widest exhibit of Sydney’s unique and fascinating animals and plants. At the Wildlife world for instance, you will get to see a Koala – a very fascinating animal, uniquely associated with Australia. Here you also get to watch some of the unique reptiles for which Australia is famed for. Yet another unique species of animals to be found at the wildlife world is the yellow footed rock wallabies – and more.

And if you adventurous or daring enough – you can also throw yourself from the high wallaby cliffs – all in your visit to the wildlife world.

The beauty of the animals on display at the wildlife world is that the conditions in which the various animals are kept have been adjusted as much as possible to bring them as close as reasonably possible to the animal’s natural habitats.

And apart from giving you access to the highest point from which you can possibly view Sydney as well as entry into city’s newest attraction the wildlife world, the ticket with which you enter the Sydney tower also gives you access to what is referred to a virtual tour of Australia and through which you get the opportunity to catch up with the parts of Australia you might not have the opportunity to make it to on your tour. This virtual too is created to simulate a real tour as much as possible – complete with three dimensional displays and even real motion seating, which promises, at least the first time you experience it, to be like nothing you have ever experienced before.

With the experience that is a climb to the top of the Sydney tour – and the extras it comes with (including the entry to the wildlife world and the virtual tour of Australia), a visit to the Sydney tower is clearly an experience worth having and definitely offers you good value for your money.

For many people, a tour of Sydney would be largely incomplete without giving a visit to the world famous Sydney Harbor Bridge – which appears on many postcards and stamps as one of Sydney’s greatest attractions.

The bridge gives the many thousands of people who pay it a visit annually not only the opportunity to see it – but actually also to climb it, thanks to the climbable pylon on its southern side. And with more than a couple of hundred stair steps- a climb to the top of Sydney harbor bridge’s pylon can prove to quite a challenging affair for some.

Once you make it to the top of the Sydney harbor bridge pylon, however, you get rewarded for your effort in a number of ways. From the top of the Sydney harbor bridge, for instance, you a vantage point from where you can see a much of Sydney’s widely touted sky-line, as well as the few less developed surroundings of the city.

It would seem that builders of the Sydney harbor bridge had a lot of foresight – and correctly foresaw that the bridge would one day grow to be a major tourist attraction – hence their inclusion of the pylons in its plan. This is because as it turns out the pylons are purely meant to add the ‘wow’ factor to the bridge, and they actually don’t serve any structural role on the bridge. But again someone could argue that we need not bestow the honor of having too much foresight on the part of the people who built the bridge because with the architectural ingenuity that went into the bridge’s construction, one would obviously have known that the bridge would one day grown into a major tourist attraction.

It is also at the Sydney harbor bridge pylon that you get a lot of information – actually as much of it as you would possibly want – about the Sydney harbor bridge, particularly its history and what went into its construction (which by the way includes a number of lives). Legend has it, for instance, that one of the of bridge’s builders – must have been a very clever fellow – fell off from the bridge when constructing, and was obviously headed for a certain death (because the bridge is so high). This fellow had a no-brainer in a flash of a second, and decided to throw the builders tool box he had in his hand when he fell off into the sea at the approximate spot where he was bound to fall into the water at, thereby breaking the water tension, and in a way of speaking creating a soft landing spot for himself in the ocean. Mark you, all this was happening in the short duration between falling from the top of the bridge and landing on the sea bellow. Thanks to his quick thinking and acting, the guy survived the accident and was seen working back at bridge’s construction site after a few weeks time! And this is just one of the many Sydney bridge harbors you stand to hear and learn from, by paying a visit to the bridge, and giving it a climb at its southern pole.

If you are a lover of science and technology (especially the modern gadgetry) – or if you are touring Sydney with your young ones, be sure to give the powerhouse museum a visit.

It should not be hard for you to locate the Powerhouse museum, as it is a well known location in Sydney that almost every Sydney resident should surely know. In case you are at a location from where you can easily walk to the Powerhouse museum, the place to find it is in Ultimo at the edge of the Darling Harbor – and the road to take you there is ‘Harris Street’.

Once you are inside the Powerhouse museum, you will be in for a truly great treat – and you can sure that you will get to see at least one gadget or technology you have never seen. If you are visiting with your young one, be ready to answer the tons of question they are sure to bombard you regarding this or that thing they set their eyes on in the museum. The Powerhouse Museum is not just a place for kids only though – there is pretty much something for everyone.

Depending on the time of the year you happen to be visiting the Powerhouse Museum, you will be sure to find one or another exhibition – from the purely science oriented exhibitions to the technology themed exhibitions to the space exploration themed exhibitions. And for things that can’t be physically exhibited in the museum, there is always the opportunity to get to watch them on the museums three dimensional displays which simulate reality as much as realistically possible – and which make the scenes being depicted truly vivid.

Another good thing about Sydney’s Powerhouse Museum is that it created (both architecturally and on the programs run there) in a family friendly way – such that it makes a truly good place to go for a family Saturday or Sunday out.

People who get to visit the Powerhouse Museum describe their experience there as anything from truly educative to highly informative to great fun. And as it turns out, the exhibits at the Powerhouse Museum are truly educative in their nature and you are bound to learn something or two on your trip there. And the various exhibitions held at the Powerhouse museum can be truly informative – giving visitors real good insights into recent technologies and the direction in which technology is taking us.

If you happen to be visiting the Powerhouse Museum with your kids, and the visit happens to coincide with the school holidays, then you can be sure that your kids will get to benefit from the extra special programs that are developed specially for kids in the school holiday months.

All in all, the Powerhouse Museum is Sydney is truly a powerhouse in scientific and technological exhibits. It is also makes a good place to take your kid, if your really want to motivate your kid towards a career in technology without having to lecture them about the benefits of science and technology – because with the stuff exhibited at the Powerhouse museum, a kid is likely to develop an interest on how to make such stuff – and thus ‘naturally’ develop an interest in a science or technology career.