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Sydney’s Significant Land-marks

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I was going to write Bye bye Air Asia X, when it stopped its X flights to Paris, London, Mumbai and Delhi. With that my visits to explore London and Paris also took a back seat, as the budgets in other airlines are not as competitive as Air Asia. Without much adieu, I flew to Sydney one of the much awaited destinations which Air Asia and I had been waiting for quite some-time. Sydney the state capital of New South Wales situated on the south east cost of Tasman Sea. Sydney was the first site of British Colony in Australia established in 1778. In 2010 Sydney was ranked 7 th in Asia and 28 th globally for economic innovation and ranked among the top ten most livable cities in the World. On 26 January 1788, six days after the First Fleet landed in nearby Botany Bay, captain Arthur Phillip decided to establish the new British penal colony here, at the Rocks in Sydney Cove. To contain a bubonic plague Sydney's government demolished parts of the area and with the construction