Insight Guides: Sydney Step By Step (Insight Step by Step)

Step-by-Step Sydney reveals this exciting city through a selection of clearly laid-out walks and tours, complemented by beautiful, full-color pictures, an authoritative narrative voice, and a wealth of practical information, all in a compact package.
The guide starts with Recommended Tours, suggesting the book’s best tours for swimmers, art-lovers and shoppers, among others.
-In the Overview, an engaging introduction reveals essential background information on Sydney culture, geography, and lifestyle, plus the lowdown on food, drink, shopping, entertainment, history and Sydney’s outdoors attractions. This provides all the background information needed to set the walks and tours in context.
-The Walks and Tours section features 14 irresistible self-guided routes, from the harbour and Central Business District to the trendy inner suburbs of Surry Hills and Paddington, on to the beaches at Bondi and Manly, and finishing in the outdoor splendors of the Blue Mountains and Royal National Park. All show step by step how to get the most out of the destination, with something for every budget, taste and trip length. Each of the tours has an clear, easy-to-follow map, hand-picked places to eat and drink en route, great insider tips and informative feature boxes. All this makes it simple for the reader to find the perfect tour for the time they have to spare.
-The final section of the book is the Directory, incorporating a user-friendly, fact-packed A to Z of practical information, plus select hotel, restaurant and nightlife listings, which will lead the reader to the best that Sydney has to offer.

 

Ute Junker’s career as a travel writer has taken her to many far-flung corners of the globe, but her hometown of Sydney remains one of her favourite places on earth, for its combination of big-city buzz and spectacular outdoor spaces. She writes regularly about Sydney for a number of international publications, which has given her an insight into the city’s hidden secrets.