Royal National Park

Day Note:

Australia is a wild place - and that is easy to forget when you're happily ensconced inside the Sydney city limits. A quick way to break the illusion: head off out to the Royal National Park (the Southern limits of the city) for a few days, though you might just as well visit the Ku-Ring-Gai Chase National park, to the North, or the Blue Mountains to the West. The Royal National Park is the largest in Sydney, and one of the oldest in the world - certainly...

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    Royal National Park

    Royal National Park - Sydney
    • Contact:

    • 61 2 9542 0648
    • visit website
    • Location:

    • Farnell Avenue
    • Audley Heights
    • Sydney,NSW2232
    • Map

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    Description:

    Covering almost 37,000 acres of the southern coastline, the Royal National Park is Sydney's largest national park by far. To visit the Royal National Park it is less than an hour out of the city. Prepare for a full days outing as they park is enormous and there is so much to see and do. Whether you want to explore surf beaches, water holes and waterfalls, wildlife, or rainforest hikes, the possibilities are endless. If one day just isn't enough you can hire camp sites ad pitch a tent for the night, with more time up your sleeve you could even fit in a little canoeing or rowing which you can organise at the park centre. Explore the real Australian bush and rainforest with a full day or two of outdoor adventure and expirience first hand Australia's native flora and fauna as well as some amazing untouched surf beaches.

    Farnell Avenue, tel. 61 2 9542 0648

    Trent van der Jagt, Sydney Local Expert

Day Note:

Waking in the morning, make yourself some billy-tea (Australian English for tea boiled in a campground), pack up your tent, and keep on tramping. Another day of spectacular views, swims and novel landscapes will finally bring you to Otford, where a convenient lookout gives you one final chance to look back across the 30+ kms of unspoiled wilderness through which you have just walked. From here it is only a few hundred meters to the Otford Train Station, which...

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    Royal National Park

    Royal National Park - Sydney
    • Contact:

    • 61 2 9542 0648
    • visit website
    • Location:

    • Farnell Avenue
    • Audley Heights
    • Sydney,NSW2232
    • Map

    •  

    Description:

    Covering almost 37,000 acres of the southern coastline, the Royal National Park is Sydney's largest national park by far. To visit the Royal National Park it is less than an hour out of the city. Prepare for a full days outing as they park is enormous and there is so much to see and do. Whether you want to explore surf beaches, water holes and waterfalls, wildlife, or rainforest hikes, the possibilities are endless. If one day just isn't enough you can hire camp sites ad pitch a tent for the night, with more time up your sleeve you could even fit in a little canoeing or rowing which you can organise at the park centre. Explore the real Australian bush and rainforest with a full day or two of outdoor adventure and expirience first hand Australia's native flora and fauna as well as some amazing untouched surf beaches.

    Farnell Avenue, tel. 61 2 9542 0648

    Trent van der Jagt, Sydney Local Expert



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