Sydney, Australia

There was one thing we discovered in Sydney that sort of messed up our senses and that was that the taxis there looked very much like police cars.

Trust me, this is a taxi...

Now this is a police car...

My brother drove all the way up from Canberra to meet us. With a car, we were able to visit the Opera House, The Rock's, and Star City Casino. However, we were unfamiliar with the roads and actually took a wrong turn while heading back to our hotel. We crossed the Harbour Bridge and almost got ourselves lost in northern Sydney. Thus we have a piece of advice (which a guy in our hotel gave us too but we didn't take) for tourists going to Sydney: never drive in the inner city. With its horrible layout of one-way streets and terrible traffic flows, walking was faster than driving at times.

More photos from our trip can be found here.