Day 4 in the Land of Oz

Wah, trying to get as many posts up as I can before my holiday ends. And school is starting tomorrow! So much inertia in me I wonder how I am going to cope with work.

Anyway on Day 4, we woke up to gloomy weather again. Nonetheless, we decided to go ahead as planned and proceeded to Bondi beach, in the hope that Bondi is quite far away and perhaps weather will improve. But before Bondi, we had Krispy Kremes for breakfast! We didn't want to eat so many initially, but because buy half a dozen got discount, we ended up having 3 each! A little too much I would say...

Sugar overdose for breakfast.

Unfortunately, weather didn't clear up when we reached Bondi. It was really cold and windy and my ears hurt from the cold. I guess Yiwen must have been too hopeful because he went in T-shirt and berms and didn't bring a jacket! Almost caught a cold even! There were a few tourists on the beach and they were all so covered up!

Trying to look cheerful in spite of the weather haha

Finally accepted the fact that weather wasn't going to get better.

We took a bus back from the beach to Bondi Junction, and there was this huge shopping centre! We chanced upon Harvey Norman and found out that the iPods and cameras were much cheaper than in Singapore. But we were apprehensive about buying, so didn't buy. But the next day, we decided to buy so we had to hunt down a Harvey Norman near our hotel and ended up buying 1 camera and 2 iPod Nanos!

The huge shopping mall at Bondi Junction

Having lunch at the food court... Expensive Chinese food!

Well, we had planned to do shopping and sightseeing around the city centre on the day, so following Bondi, we went to Town Hall (very near our hotel) and Queen Victoria Building. Queen Victoria Building is another huge mall. But we didn't really buy anything there...

Town Hall

I think this picture looks as in I'm studying in some overseas uni

Cathedral next to Town Hall, I can't rem the name now...

Does this picture give you the feeling it's supposed to be summer?

Queen Victoria Building

After dinner, we went back to Sydney Opera House because we die die also want to take night shots of the place! It's really a test of our non-existence photography skills and we ended up with many blurred shots. I've picked the nicer ones for the blog!

Opera House from far

I like this photo because of the "feel"...

Harbour bridge lit up at night

It was supposed to be our last night in Sydney, but it turned out that we were held back for another night. Read the next post for details!

Day 3 in the Land of Oz

Alright, Carine is taking over the blogging. Main reason is because I'm still on holiday (last few days though sob) and Yiwen is working. Maybe you guys can judge who blogs better. So on day 3 of our trip, we joined a day tour that brought us to Featherdale to see animals, Blue Mountains and Olympic Park. Pretty fun, but I felt it was a bit too rushed. Didn't have enough time to enjoy the beautiful scenery and snap enough photos! But the tour guide Steve was entertaining. Oh there were several Singaporeans on the tour with us, so it didn't feel too lonely for us! In fact, they intro-ed us to some places to visit and they turned out pretty good!

First stop of the day - Featherdale

Seeing koala bears for the first time!

Haha the koala bear was too busy eating to bother with us...

Well, I was quite scared of the animals running around me! Didn't dare to go too close to take pics with them! But this photo was not well taken, because the animals were facing the camera with their butts.

Following which, the coach took us to the famous Blue Mountains! I can't remember why it was called Blue Mountains liao. We did some walking and sightseeing loh. Not bad lah the scenery spots we were brought to.

This is some famous waterfall. Everyone posed for a picture there.

Another spot the guide recommended for photo taking

Three Sisters from Echo Point! Apparently, there used to be seven sisters!

Yiwen in the skyway. There were 3 things we took: skyway, railway and cableway. The rides were so short (I think we spent more time waiting) but the scenery was quite good.

We paid AUD$25 each for the 3 rides. Not cheap, but everyone tells me must try leh.

The lunch we had. The tour guide gave us an option of kiosk or cafe. We were tired of cafe food, so we opted for kiosk, but never did we know that the kiosk had no place to sit and eat. We found some tables and benches outside but there were so many flies! In the end, we ate our take-aways outside the toilet! And inside the box was kangaroo meat!

I think this is the steepest railway or something...

Three Sisters again.

We took the railway down, then walked through some rainforest to take cable car up.

The view from the cable car

After that, the tour guide brought us to a candy store in the nearby town before we went to Sublime Point. So we walked down many steps to this lookout point.




Very cute one, after we finished the walk, we had coffee and tea and biscuits! The guide provided one loh. As you can tell from the pictures, the weather changed from bright and sunny to dark and gloomy. And just as we finished our snacks, it rained.

The final stop was Olympic Park, which we stayed for a really short while. Oh we experienced some form of racism there too, with kids calling us names. By then, the weather was very bad and we were really cold from the rain and the wind.


From here, we took a cruise back to Sydney harbour. We wished that the weather would be better when we got back to Sydney harbour but you can tell from the photos that it didn't. So we took pictures of the bridge and opera house in gloomy weather. It felt as though we were there in Winter and in Summer (see Day 2 photos for better comparison). You will also see that we pile on more clothes than in Day 2 haha.




We wanted to take some night shots of Sydney harbour. While waiting for the rain to stop and for the sun to set, we had dinner at this place with a garden feel. Food took very long to be served as usual. But it was good, otherwise Lonely Planet wouldn't recommend it.

After dinner, the rain did not stop, but I was very brave so I insisted on taking photos. Yiwen had no choice but to shield me and the camera with his umbrella.



Haha in the end, the photos didn't turn out nice at all and these were the 2 nicest and clearest liao. How to have steady hands when I was so freaking cold right?