For this full day tour, travel through Mittagong and Berrima beautiful little villages full of craft shops. Then to Canberra for a guided tour of the National Gallery of Australia and Parliament House. Visit the War Memorial Museum with its fascinating collections of war relics, sculptures and diorama displays. Return to Sydney approximately at 9.30 pm.

This area of southern new South Wales, bordered by the Illawara Coastline and the southern Highlands Plateau is a region of immense diversity and contrast. Pass the historic Botany Bay and traverse through the Royal National Park before stopping at Oxford Lookout, high on the clifftops at the Pacific Ocean’s edge. Pass the windswept villages of tiny miner’s cottages. Morning refreshments under the Norfolk Island pines. Climb through the rainforest of Macquarie Pass National Park into the Highlands Plateau to Robertson. Then to the quaint country village of Burrawang where time seems to have stood still. At Moss Vale you will see many wild eastern grey kangaroos grazing by a lake. At Briar’s Inn have a delicious lunch of local beef, lamb and trout or vegetarian. Then through the forests of scribble gums and giant ant hills via Jamboree Pass back to Sydney.

Featherdale is an extensive wildlife park, developed in a natural bush less than one hour from Sydney’s center. You can stroll along its shady level walkways; enter enclosures for face-to face, touch-to-touch meetings with friendly kangaroos and cuddly koalas.

Witnesses an Australian Miracle – some climb, some hop, crawl, slither, slide or fly – while others, looking cautiously around, simply perch and stare in big-eyed wonder.