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Lost and buried Sydney walking tour

Hyde Park South · Sydney

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🗓️Saturdays · to Sat 19 Jun
🎟️From $20
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Dates & times

Sat 29 Aug · 1pm – 3pm
Sat 12 Sep · 1pm – 3pm
Sat 26 Sep · 1pm – 3pm
Sat 10 Oct · 2pm – 4pm
Sat 24 Oct · 2pm – 4pm
and 17 more

About

This tour blends mystery, engineering, and social history — showing how Sydney’s past lies not only in its monuments but also in what has been buried, stolen, or erased.

What you’ll experience:

Hyde Park — From Aboriginal meeting place, then convict marching ground, to Sydney’s first public park: a place of leisure, protest, and memory.The Crystal Palace — Sydney’s own exhibition hall at the old Garden Palace site, a grand Victorian structure lost to fire but remembered for its ambition.Packer’s Stolen Gold — The sensational theft that shook Sydney’s elite, exposing the city’s underworld and its fragile fortunes.Busby’s Bore — The underground water channel built in the 1820s–30s that supplied Sydney with fresh water, a vital lifeline carved through sandstone.The Geographic Centre of Sydney — Stand at the true middle point of the city and explore how geography shaped its growth and identity.Before the Opera House — Discover Bennelong Point’s earlier life as a fort and tram depot before it became home to Sydney’s most iconic building.Martin Place — Once a narrow lane, transformed into Sydney’s civic heart, lined with banks, war memorials, and the pulse of public life.Underground Tunnels to the Conservatorium of Music — Learn about the hidden passages beneath Macquarie Street, where the darkness was used for both good and mischievous intentions.

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Getting there

Hyde Park South, Sydney

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