Home to more than 26 million and increasingly popular with visitors who travel long distances to get there, Australia is the world’s smallest continent and sixth largest nation in area. Whether visitors have come to start or finish a cruise, are heading off to explore the Great Barrier Reef or look for encounters with unique flora and fauna, they‘ll also want to make time to explore Australia’s largest cities. They’ll find plenty of reasons to spend time and multiple types of experience.
Sydney, now home to some 6 million, was the arrival site in 1788 of a fleet of British convicts sentenced to “transportation.” While many were sentenced for crimes that included stealing loaves of bread, the punishment actually birthed a new option for people restarting their lives.
