The single best thing you can do with kids in Sydney is get out on the harbour, and the perfect excuse is a trip to Taronga Zoo. It combines two treats in one, a ferry ride across one of the world’s most beautiful harbours, and a hillside zoo full of Australian animals with a view that has to be seen to be believed.
Start at Circular Quay, where the ferries leave right beside the Opera House. The crossing to Taronga is short but spectacular, gliding past the Opera House sails and under the Harbour Bridge, with the whole city on show. Kids press to the rail the entire way.
At Taronga, the zoo climbs a hillside above the water, and a cable car carries you up over the enclosures to the top, so you walk gently downhill through it. Along the way you meet koalas, kangaroos, wombats, platypuses and more, plus giraffes that appear to graze against the Sydney skyline, which makes for the famous photo. There are keeper talks and animal encounters through the day.
Buy a combined ferry and zoo pass to save money and hassle, go early to beat the heat and see the animals active, and take the cable car up so the walk is downhill with tired legs. Between the ferry and the koalas, it is a guaranteed highlight of any Sydney trip.
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