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.