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Self Guided Historical Walking Tour in Syndey

By afootwego
Price is $20 per traveler* *Get a lower price by selecting multiple travelers
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Overview

This self-guided adventure through The Rocks reveals the real Sydney, raw, rebellious, and absolutely fascinating.

Walk 3.3km through 18 historic sites where convicts, sailors, and survivors built a city from nothing. But you're not just seeing buildings, you're meeting the people who lived, loved, fought, and died here.

28 Captivating Audio Stories bring colonial Sydney to life. Hear about the families who thrived against impossible odds, the Green Bans, and of course the convicts

Discover what they ate, how they survived, and the legacies they left behind.

Total Freedom:

  • Explore at YOUR pace, linger or breeze through
  • Start anytime, morning, afternoon, or evening
  • Pause, reread, replay, customize your route
  • Experience history on your own terms

Perfect for:
Curious explorers wanting authentic stories, history lovers craving depth, really anyone who believes the best experiences reveal who made history, not just what happened.

Download the Guide, press play, and walk!

Activity location

  • Circular Quay
    • Circular Quay
    • 2000, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Circular Quay Wharf 2
    • 2000, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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Self Guided Historical Walking Tour in Syndey in English
  • Activity duration is 4 hours4h
    4h
  • Opening hours: Tue 12:00am-11:30pm
  • English
Language options: English
Price details
$20.00 x 1 Traveler$20.00
Total
Price is $20.00

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's included
    IMPORTANT: Download PDF walking route, notes and audios before your walk u start your walk

Know before you book

  • Service animals allowed
  • Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
  • Not recommended for pregnant travelers
  • Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
  • Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
  • Toilets are available on the route
  • Cafes are available on the route
  • Places to sit are available on the route
  • Not recommended if you have a walking disability

Activity itinerary

Circular Quay
  • 10m
The Gadigal people called this place Warrane. In 1788, eleven ships arrived carrying over a thousand desperate souls to an unknown land.
Customs House
  • 10m
Built in 1845 by workers who knew every stone. Despite the the opinion of some, the First Fleet didn't land here—but generations of Sydneysiders have passed through its doors.
First Fleet Park
  • 10m
Mary Reibey arrived in chains at age 13. Isaac Nicolas was transported for theft. Both became respected businesspeople. How did they rebuild their lives from nothing?
Fortune of War - Sydney's Oldest Pub
  • 10m
For a century (1820s-1920), sailors, convicts, and locals drank side by side. Get arrested? The Police Station was next door. But the police were often as crooked as the convicts themselves.
Suez Canal
  • 10m
The colony's first patients suffered here in canvas tents. Later, this narrow lane saw the colony's first street gangs clash.
Greenway Lane
  • 10m
Francis Greenway was transported for forgery, yet designed some of Sydney's most beautiful buildings. Can a criminal successfully return to his chosen profession?
Cambridge Street
  • 10m
Irish orphan girls, some as young as 14, arrived alone and terrified. Mary Driver was one. She made this street her home
Argyle Cut
  • 10m
Convicts chiseled through 140 metres of solid rock with hand tools. Every chip tells a story of backbreaking labor.
The Big Dig Archaeology Education Centre
  • 10m
Long's Lane, Cribb's Lane, and Caracher's Lane - Beneath your feet: 33 homes where real families lived, loved, and struggled. Archaeologists found their cups, their toys, their secrets.
Susannah Place
  • 10m
Edward Riley was an ex-convict. How did he afford these terrace houses? The answer might surprise you.
Globe Street
  • 10m
Jack Mundey mural - One union leader in the 1970s said "no." Without Jack Mundey's green bans, bulldozers would have erased all these stories.
Nurses Walk
  • 10m
Ann Smith, a convict nurse, ran away. For years, male convicts "nursed" the sick. Imagine being cared for by them.
Harrington Street
  • 10m
Behind Harrington Street is Well Courtyard - William O'Neal's child drowned in this well. A parent's worst nightmare, preserved in stone.
Harrington Street
  • 10m
Reynolds Cottages can be found here - 200 years old, built by convict hands, nearly demolished. The secrets of how they survived involve lies, luck, and determination.
The Rocks Centre
  • 10m
Rest, refresh, and reflect on the people whose struggles built this place.

Location

Activity location

  • LOB_ACTIVITIESLOB_ACTIVITIES
    Circular Quay
    • Circular Quay
    • 2000, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • PEOPLEPEOPLE
    Circular Quay Wharf 2
    • 2000, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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