DESCRIPTION:

Day 1 -   Meet at Port Macquarie Airport for the Aussie Bike or Hike staff to transport you to start of hike (2 hour drive)
Day 2 -    20kms Hike   
Day 3 -    20kms Hike
Day 4 -    20kms Hike

Day 5 -    20kms Hike

Day 6 -     Transport back to Sydney Kingsford Smith International Airport 

 

 

An epic 80km coastal walk that links two of Australia’s best beaches and take in some of our most iconic landmarks in the Australia.

80km Bondi-Manly walk that will snake around Sydney’s picturesque foreshore on existing public land and has already been declared the best walk in the world.

 

The walk will take in the Sydney Opera House, the Harbour Bridge and Mrs Macquarie’s Chair, as well the dramatic views of North Head, Taronga Zoo and Clifton Gardens.

Walkers can pass Camp Cove, where Captain Arthur Phillip first landed in 1788; Nutcote, the home of artist May Gibbs; stunning Vaucluse House and Elizabeth Bay House; and Aboriginal engravings at Grotto Point.

The 80km trek could be the best urban walk in the world, not only because the locations are beautiful and historically important, but they’re right near the city. The walk sits on what is widely accepted to be the greatest natural harbour in the world and it takes in four of the six most iconic places in the nation.

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If you would like more information about booking this hike, please send us a message on the “Contact Us” page.

 

HIGHLIGHTS:

• BONDI BEACH

• Bondi is Australia’s most famous surf beach and is home to the world’s first lifesaving club. More than a million travellers visit Bondi every year for the quintessential Aussie experience of sun, surf and sand.

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• CAMP COVE & SOUTH HEAD

• Camp Cove is a popular harbour beach where Capt. Arthur Phillips first landed in Port Jackson in 1788. South Head offers magnificent harbour views, old harbour fortifications and lighthouse keeper’s cottages and the colourful Hornby Lighthouse.

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• HISTORIC HOUSES ON THE SOUTHERN HARBOUR SHORE

• Vaucluse House is a nineteenth century mansion with its substantial original gardens still intact. Elizabeth Bay House, built in the 1830’s, was considered the finest house in the Colony of NSW. 

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• MRS MACQUARIE’S CHAIR

• Mrs Macquarie’s Chair is a bench carved into sandstone by convicts in 1810. According to legend Mrs Macquarie, the Governor’s wife, would sit there waiting for ships to arrive from England. 

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• SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE

• The Sydney Opera House, with its white shell-shaped sail roof, is one of the world’s most famous buildings. 
   

• SYDNEY HARBOUR BRIDGE

• Since opening in 1932 the Harbour Bridge has shaped the City of Sydney. Its steel arch span and two pairs of granite pylons have become a symbol of Sydney and Australia. 
   

• MAY GIBBS’ NUTCOTE

• Nutcote was the home of children’s book illustrator and author, May Gibbs. Now a museum, it celebrates the life and work of the creator of the gumnut babies - Snugglepot and Cuddlepie.
   

• CURLEW CAMP ON LITTLE SIRIUS COVE

• For nearly twenty years Curlew Camp was a place where artists lived and worked on the Harbour shore, and it is where two of Australia’s most famous artists, Arthur Streeton and Tom Roberts, painted some of their best known works. 
   

• SIGNIFICANT SITES IN ABORIGINAL CULTURE

• The track goes through an aboriginal midden between Fisher Bay and Sandy Bay. At Grotto Point there is a large number of aboriginal engravings. Reef Beach is the home of an ancestral reburial site and rock art.
   

• MANLY BEACH

• Manly, so named by Capt. Arthur Phillip in 1788 because of the manly nature of its indigenous people, is famous for its ocean beach and the ferry service from Circular Quay which started in 1852.

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PRICE INCLUDES:

• Arrival Gift

• Accommodation (Twin Share)

• Breakfast 

• Lunch

• Dinner

• Support van and Trailer 

• Informed travel guide riding with the group

• Tour description, travel materials

• Detailed route planning

• Walking with group

• PRICE DOES NOT INCLUDE AIRFARES

 

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MEALS:

Breakfast, lunch and dinner is included on all tours.  No one goes hungry on these tours! If you have dietary restrictions, please contact us before booking, so we can find out and plan your options for the tour.

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DONT FORGET:

CAMERA:

Don't forget your camera, the ride path Aussie Bike OR Hike staff will take you on will be exceptional. rolling hills, wild life, it’s very common to see Kangaroos, birds, goannas and other wild life along the route.

 

ESSENTIAL GEAR:

 

• Booking

• Sturdy walking shoes which are good in water. Second pair for evenings if you don’t want wet feet

• Long trousers

• Warm clothes/ beanie

• Sleeping bag (supplied by Aussie Bike or Hike if requested)

• Head torch (supplied by Aussie Bike or Hike if requested)

• Emergency personal locator beacon (supplied and carried by Aussie Bike or Hike Crew)

• First Aid kit (supplied and carried by Aussie Bike or Hike Crew)

• Water purifying equipment (supplied and carried by Aussie Bike or Hike Crew)

• Dry/plastic bags for river crossing

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