Sydney Australia

Sydney (Australia) is the most spectacular harbour city in the world. It offers ideal climate, friendly atmosphere and amazing variety of leisure activities. The weather in Sydney is generally warm and sunny for most of the year, with temperatures over 30 degrees Celsius in summer, but rarely falling below 10 degrees in winter. Sydney has been voted the world's best city by leading international travel publication (Travel+Leisure) eight times in 10 years.

Aboriginal tribes have inhabited Sydney for more than 40000 years and its original name was Warrane. The first European who anchored in Botany Bay on 29 April in 1770 was Captain James Cook. Years later the British government decided to found a convict settlement in Australia. The first fleet, 11 ships with 730 convicts on board landed in January 1788 and started to establish a colony. The population increased by the.second and the third . fleet and later on ships with voluntary settlers were arriving on a weekly basis . The city was named after Lord Sydney, the British Secretary of State for Home Affairs, who had authorised the colonisation scheme.

Sydney is one of the largest cities in terms of area that is formally divided into more than 400 suburbs. It has 150+ hospitals, 1100+ hotels and motels, 4300+ parks and recreation reserves, 1300+ schools, 250+ shopping centres and 150+ wharves. Sydney Metropolitan area covers about 2000 square kilometers that is double the size of New York and more than 15 times bigger than Paris. The population is 4 million. Sydney is also one of the most multi cultural cities in the world with people from 180 nations, speaking 140 languages.