Today was the day the tour officially started and the day we met everyone in our tour group. I think there were around 38 of us in total, but a Contiki tour can sometimes have groups as large as 50! We met for breakfast at 7am pretty much every morning, so if you can't get up at 6am this tour probably isn't for you haha! Australia is a HUGE country, so to see everything you want to see and travel 1,500 miles up the East Coast in 2 weeks, early mornings were a necessity! I never found it a problem though. It's almost like going on a school trip! It was the height of summer and you were spending the day having fun with a huge group of friends... if that doesn't make you wanna get up at 6am then I don't know what will!
On the agenda today was a trip to the Blue Mountains and to see the 'Three Sisters' rock formation. We hopped on the coach and drove 2 hours out of Sydney, which gave us plenty of time to chat and get to know each other! I wasn't prepared for the amount of walking we were going to do today... I'm unfit at the best of times but hiking in 30 degree weather was seriously hard! Even so, I was hardly going to complain considering where the bloody hell I was! The scenery was absolutely beautiful, as always the photos do not do it justice! I brought my selfie stick with me so I guess you could say we all bonded over our first selfie together!
That afternoon, we headed back to Sydney for a coach tour of the city. I didn't realise at the time but our tour guide Mark was actually the same tour guide who did the same Contiki tour with 2 of my favourite Youtuber's FunForLouis and HeyNadine! It's probably a good thing I didn't know actually as I probably would have spent the whole time annoying Mark with questions about Louis (awks)!! If you wanna see the video of Louis and Nadine doing the same tour I did with my tour guide Mark, click here.
After our tour of Sydney, the coach took us to a lookout for the best view of the Opera House and Harbour Bridge where we all had a group photo and took some selfies. We headed back to the hotel later that afternoon and got ready for our first dinner as a group at a 'cook your own steak' restaurant. We all stood around this huge grill and cooked our steaks exactly how we wanted which was pretty cool. After dinner we went to the same bar we went to the night before and lets just say the wine and cocktail teapots were flowing! We continued on to a different bar across the road and everything else from that point is a blur! I can remember there being poles and all of us standing around watching one of the Canadian girls put on a show for us... you can't beat a bit of pole dancing to break the ice between strangers!! I can remember thinking pretty much the whole night, "Wow, I'm actually partying in Sydney. THIS. IS. INSANE."
Check out my next blog post for Day 3!
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