Sydney commuters are facing a 5.4 % increase in bus and train tickets after holiday season this year, 2012. The fare increases are the first rise in public transport costs since April 2010.
The increases apply on the CityRail network, which covers Sydney, the Central Coast and the Hunter, Illawarra and Blue Mountains regions.
Weekly rail ticket will increase by up to $3, whilst a single ticket on the busses will go up by 10 to 20 cents.
CarriageWorks’ PLATFORM HIP HOP FESTIVAL returns for an awesome, intense and epic four weeks in March 2011, with a massive line up that includes international stars and interstate champions alongside the amazing Sydney hip hop artists who have blasted the Platform stage since 2008.
PLATFORM HIP HOP FESTIVAL presents the best hip hop music, dance, street art, photography, film and hip hop theatre, with a particular emphasis on our fresh Australian flavor, punctuated with serious players from the international hip hop stage. With everyone from legendary household names like Rahzel (AKA the Godfather of Noyze) (USA), Supernatural (USA) and DJ JS-1 (USA), to phenomenal talents like B*Boy Blond (Korea), Poe1 (USA) and B*Boy Storm (Germany), and the awesome young Redfern City Rockers, PLATFORM HIP HOP FESTIVAL is a haven for hip hop heads from all over Australia. In 2011, PLATFORM HIP HOP FESTIVAL will be one of the biggest hip hop events Australia has ever seen.
There are a hoard of experiences, activities and events to take part in, most of them free, some of them ticketed – with no price over $35. PLATFORM HIP HOP FESTIVAL is a unique, fun and family-friendly environment for hip hop lovers, and it’s also the perfect festival for novice enthusiasts to get involved and find out what it’s all about.
It’s time to discover the incredible energy and awesome talent of PLATFORM HIP HOP FESTIVAL – live, loud and Sydney-style.
When: 12 March – 2 April.
1 January 2012 – New Year’s day
2 January 2012 – Additional Day
26 January 2011 – Australia Day
6 April 2012 – Good Friday
9 April 2012 – Easter Monday
25 April 2012 – Anzac Day
11 June 2012 – Queen’s birthday
1 October 2012 – Labour Day
25 December 2012 – Christmas Day
26 December 2012 – Boxing Day
Many of Sydney’s coastline suburbs have dedicated PADI dive schools for obtaining training or organising dives (day / night dives). Unique location are is Clovelly & Gordons Bay. You can find blue groper, bream, snapper and giant cuttlefish at Clovelly where as Gordon Bay has 500 metre Underwater Nature Trail taking in rocky reefs, sand flats and kelp forests.
You need to pass a dive medical before commencing training. This is accordance with Australian Standard AS4005-1 which prevents anyone with certain medical conditions from being able to take the course.
Here are some of PADI scuba diving and dive courses in Sydney Australia:
Cycling is an economical and environmentally friendly to navigate the city. You can find some of the best bikes routes that will show you fabolous harbour views, give you a glimpse of the Opera House, the Botanical Garden and Hyde Park.
You must by law wear a helmet at all times when cycling in Sydney. Do not ride on the footpaths unless there is signage indicating that you are able to do so. Please be wary of traffic and give way to pedestrians. Unexperienced cyclist are not recommended to cycling on Sydney roads as it’s dangerous as most cars travelling at minimum 60 km/hour and sometimes 80 km/hour depend on the location.
As bicycle helmets required by law, so are lights and reflectors when you cycling at night.
Centennial Park is one of the best cycle track for your family, where you can do this activity with your family.
What is Canyoning?
This sport is really only played around Sydney as nowhere else in the world has this sort of special sandstone rock, especially a belt of “canyon country” running up the west edge of the Blue Mountain and Wollemi NP. Canyoning is kind of sport which involves abseiling down narrow slots in the ground in darkness into freezing cold water, sometimes even abseiling under waterfalls, swimming in narrow bottomless pools of freezing water in dark slots and then climbing up a steep hill with a pack full of wet gear.
This sport is quite dangerous and beginners are strongly advised to go with experienced canyoners while they learn.
What is the best way of learning?
Here are the areas you can spend your day bushwalking in Sydney. Please be careful when you do bushwalking, make sure you bring compass, light colour jacket (easier to be seen from far in case you get lost), water, chocolate bar / food, lotion, bugs repeller and torch.
Berowra Valley
Sydney Harbour
Botany Bay
Other than those places, Sydney offers a lot of places to have bushwalking such as Blue Mountains, Lane Cove, Norah Head, Ku-Ring-Gai Chase, and Georges River NP or perhaps Manly Dam.
Living in Sydney could be really exciting things as there heaps of activities you could do. You can just spend the weekend away in a mountain which offers an excited bushwalking activities as well as many other things.
I will post an article about where you can go on separate article for each activity listed on below.
Here is the list of the activities you would want to do in Sydney on your leasure time:
Sydney has an almost endless variety of attractions and activities to entertain. You and your family can just spend your night and weekend walking on the beach, enjoy the weather whilst having lunch/dinner with a view of Opera House or Sydney harbour. Even you can come face-to-face with Australia’s diverse wildlife or climb a city icon such as Harbour bridge or Sydney tower.
Things to do in Sydney:
Australia has 4 seasons like other countries in the southern hemisphere. Even though the four ‘official’ calendar seasons have the same names as the northern hemisphere seasons, the weather during these seasons is completely different to them.
Overall, Sydney has quite pleasant weather and Christmas is takes place at the height of summer. However Australia is generally a very dry place, so summers can get much hotter and there is a lot of bushfire.
Winter weather in Sydney is also not too cold. The temperature range is from 6 – 20 degree Celcius, it can be below 0 Celcius at night but Sydney never had snow. Winter is also the mid-year break for students.
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