This is the Day Trips from Sydney chapter of Lonely Planet’s Sydney guidebook.Want to escape the city? This chapter includes the very best excursions from Sydney - and they can all be completed in a day. Must-sees include peering down from Sublime Point into the cliff-lined valleys of the Blue Mountains and surfing off Garie Beach in Royal National Park. For more than a century, the Blue Mountains has lured Sydneysiders up from the sweltering plains with promises of cool-climate relief, astounding scenery and brilliant bushwalks. A prime stretch of wilderness, Royal National Park encompasses se¬cluded beaches, vertiginous cliffs, rainforest, swamp wal¬labies, lyrebirds and raucous flocks of yellow-tailed black cockatoos. It requires a little effort to reach them (no trains run here and buses seem to take forever), but the Northern Beaches are some of Sydney’s very best suburbs. Coverage includes: The Blue Mountains, Royal National Park and Northern Beaches.. By {@@Lonely Planet.author}, {@@Lonely Planet.author1}, ISBN: 9781741798975 . 10th Edition. Click the banner to get it at ONLY: GBP2.99