Sydney 2012 Day 1 Part 2

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After eating lunch, we headed off to Wildlife Sydney... It was just located at the other end of darling harbour... we just need to cross a bridge... here are some beautiful scenery pictures taken while crossing the bridge...

Wildlife Sydney, Sydney Aquarium and the recently opened Madame Tussauds is just located next to each other... making it convenient if you purchase the multiple combo pass...

Multiple combo passes can be found on myfun.com.au... it includes attractions like Wildlife Sydney, Sydney Aquarium, Madame Tussauds, Sydney Tower Eye and Oceanworld Manly at discounted prices... definitely worth it if you are going to more than one attraction...

We bought the 3 attraction combo pass at the price of AUD58.50 and choose to go to Wildlife Sydney, Sydney Aquarium and Sydney Tower Eye...

Wildlife Sydney is a mini version of a zoo which is divided into sections such as butterfly tropics, wallaby cliffs, gumtree valley, daintree rainforest, night fall and so on... the animals are located according to where you can find them in the wild... its like a small exhibit which can be completed around 3 hours or so... 

The first section that we have to walk through is called the butterfly tropics... there are tanks of snakes and frogs and butterflies flying freely around you... As im not a big fan of anything under the bug category, I was trying my best to view it as fast as possible which explains the super random photos... haha...

A very cute bird spotted...

Another bird spotted in the enclosure... but this is a very noisy bird... 

Photo taken with a fake frog... haha

The next section is the gumtree valley where you will find all the koalas... But apparently all of them back face the windows... so smart right -.- 

Some interesting facts of a koala... haha

A wallaby... A kangaroo look alike but much cuter... lol

Shan, me and a fake wombat... 

The real wombat... Sleeping i guess... 

At daintree rainforest, there are all kinds of tropical birds... and most importantly the super cute emu... he is so curious at everything...

On the way to the outback section, there were some huge ants and lizards on display...

Finally here comes the kangaroo!!!

Caught one of them peeing while eating... O_o

I got my head in the crocodile's mouth!!!

Super cute rodents (dont really know what it is called) at the night fall section... 

Extremely beautiful sunset when we exit Wildlife Sydney...

Next up Sydney 2012 Day 1 Part 3... Sydney Aquarium... haha wonder how many parts can i do for 1 day... there are too many photos!!! HOMG... 

Sydney 2012 Day 1 Part 1

3 days after my finals is the start of my 8 days graduation trip to Sydney and Melbourne... After a crazy night of house moving... my friend, Shan and I headed to the Brisbane domestic airport at 3am... 

Nothing is open and there is no one at the airport... 

Got so bored I took a picture of our luggages... the smaller one is mine =D 

A picture of Shan and me!

A blur picture of the airplane we are going to take...

While waiting for the plane...

This is the first time I took virgin airline... Was really pleased with the service, although its a budget airline, there were screens on the back of the seats where we can enjoy foxtel channels. Watched Shaun the sheep the whole 2 hours flight...

And best of all, I get to watch the sunrise from an airplane!!! Pretty max!

Another picture of the airplane we took... Taken after reaching Sydney...

It was around 7am when we reached Sydney... we had to wait another 4 hours for another friend who is flying in from Singapore to join us... so we took the airport link train to the international terminal...

Breakfast at the international terminal... red rooster... half a roast chicken...

The roasted vegetable tasted kind of weird and I hate peas!!! It somehow reminds me of airplane food haha...

After my friend arrived, we took the taxi to our hotel, Travelodge Wynyard Hotel... It is located very near to the Wynyard Station... though the rooms were abit old, it was still quite worth it for the price we paid...

After checking in, we took a cab down to darling harbour to this place called hurricane grill for pork ribs... highly recommended!!!

Baked butter mushrooms...

The damn nice pork ribs!!! 3 of us shared one whole rack of pork ribs which is filling enough for us...

The crowd at the restaurant... even though it was past lunch time...

We were seated outdoor and therefore had a great view of darling harbour... 

Here are the details for the restaurant:

Phone: 02 9211 2210 (must make reservations as its always full)

Harbourside Shopping Centre

Shops 433-436, Level 2 Darling Harbour, Sydney, Australia

Open 7 days 12pm till 3pm for lunch, 5.30pm till late for dinner

Be prepared to pay at least AUD 20 per pax.... its worth it as the food is delicious!!!

Thats all for this post folks...

Coming up... Sydney 2012 Day 1 Part 2... Sydney Wildlife and Sydney Aquarium...