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Exploring Beyond Sydney Tamworth Dungog Port Macquarie
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Jerry Plains Hunter Booral
To the east, Sydney is bounded by the Pacific Ocean; l Singleton
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to the west, by the Great Dividing Range. To the l Warkworth Paterson Clarence Town
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north and south, within easy distance of the city, m Bulga Branxton Hawks Nest
are superb beaches and stretches of coastal scenery, i HUNTER VALLEY Williams
while inland, you will encounter waterfalls, deep valleys Broke Maitland Port Stephens

and fascinating flora and wildlife. On the Hawkesbury Howes Valley Raymond Nelson Bay
Terrace

River, to the north and west of the city, are settlements Cessnock Kurri Kurri

of historical as well as scenic interest while, further N Wollombi
north, the Hunter River meanders through sloping Three Sisters towering a Putty Yeng o Newcastle
vineyards. The excursions on pages 156–67 offer the over the Jamison Valley t Toronto
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visitor the chance to sample the rich variety of Sydney o National Belmont
landscapes from the exhilarating to the tranquil. Mudgee Capertree n Pa r k Bucketty Morisset
Glen Davis a Swansea
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Portland r Heights The Entrance
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Bathurst
Meadow Flats k Gosford
Walang Zig Zag HAWKESBURY TOUR Hawkesbury
Orange, Lithgow Railway
Dubbo Tarana Berambing Kurrajong Woy Woy
Mount Victoria
Richmond
Hampton Blackheath Windsor PITTWATER &
MOUNTAINS
KU-RING-
Oberon BLUE Springwood GAI CHASE
Façade of Hope Estate in the Hunter Valley Katoomba Penrith Hornsby Mona Vale
Black Springs Jenolan Wallacia Parramatta Manly
Caves
Sights at a Glance Sydney
Bankstown
1 Pittwater and Ku-ring-gai Chase Blue Mountains Lake Liverpool Maroubra
Burragorang
National Park Porters Retreat
2 Hawkesbury Tour Camden Cronulla
National Park
3 Hunter Valley Nattai
4 Blue Mountains Campbelltown
ROYAL
5 Southern Highlands Tour NATIONAL
6 Royal National Park Picton Appin PARK
0 kilometres 50 Nattai
Richlands
0 miles 25 Bullio
Getting Around Taralga Wollongong
All the areas covered in these Myrtleville
excursions can be easily reached Wollondilly Bowral Port Kembla
by road from Sydney. Freeways and Chatsbury Moss Vale Dapto
motorways take travellers part of the Robertson Shellharbour
way to the Southern Highlands, Blue Tarlo Brayton
Kiama
Mountains and Hunter Valley, while SOUTHERN HIGHLANDS TOUR
Kangaroo
the other areas are accessible on sealed, Valley
well-signposted major roads. A number Berry
of tour operators offer guided one-day, Canberra Seven Mile
or longer, tours to the Blue Mountains, Beach
Hunter Valley, Southern Highlands Bungonia Shoalhaven Mor ton Bomaderry
and South Coast, and parts of the National Nowra Culburra
Hawkes bury region. Sydney Trains
and NSW TrainLink have regular train Pa r k Currarong
services to the Blue Mountains, Royal Wandandian
National Park and to parts of the area Nerriga Sassafras
covered by the Southern Highlands Jervis Bay
Tour. Ferries offer access to some Grand old house in Kiama, Conjola
parts of the Hawkesbury River. near the Southern Highlands
Three Sisters at sunset, Blue Mountains Bega
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