Sexy,
sultry Sydney is a gold-medal city that glitters with sun-drenched
attitude and seduces with beaches and bodies beautiful. Her
Olympic-sized heart charmed the socks off the world during the
2000 Games and continues to beat with passion and pride. She
is Australia's premier city, the oldest settlement in Australia,
the economic powerhouse of the nation and the country's capital
in everything but name. Built on the shores of stunning Port
Jackson, you would have to die and go to heaven before you see
a more spectacular setting for a city. It's a vital, self-regarding
metropolis, exuding both a devil-may-care urbanity and a slavish
obsession with global fads.
Despite
its brutal European beginnings as a British penal colony, the
city's mixture of pragmatic egalitarianism and plain indifference
has transformed it into a thriving multicultural society with
an out-and-proud gay community. The Sydney area was originally
the ancestral home of the Eora tribe, and evidence of its original
Aboriginal inhabitants survives in some 2000 rock engravings
and suburb names.
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Population:
4 million
Country: Australia
Main language: English
Time: GMT/UTC +10
Telephone Area Code: 02
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