Fun & Informative 2hr Sydney Harbour Bridge Audio+Puzzle Tour
This self-guided audio tour of the Sydney Harbour Bridge has been carefully curated by a former Bridgeclimb climb leader/guide, who has climbed the bridge over 300 times. It explains the construction and history of the bridge, taking you from water level, through The Rocks and Dawes Point, and then up onto the pedestrian walkway.
At each stop there are interactive outdoor escape-room style puzzles that will challenge your problem-solving skills, and require you to decode, decipher, and solve them!
Audio and directions are delivered through our app, providing audiobook-quality commentary that explains all the details of the bridge, while our physical tour booklets and puzzle tools will provide diagrams, illustrations, and information required to solve the puzzles, as well as a pen/pencil to help you along the way.
Options
1 person; Circular Quay 9.30am
Starting point:
Customs House Square, 31 Alfred St, Sydney NSW 2000, Australia
What's included in Fun & Informative 2hr Sydney Harbour Bridge Audio+Puzzle Tour
(Subject to Option Inclusions)Itinerary
Sydney Harbour
This tour will start beneath the bridge, and looking up and underneath the bridge you will hear about the construction, engineering, and the momentous occasion of when the two half arches met in the middle above the water. Our audiobook quality commentary will explain the details of how people used to cross the harbour prior to the bridges construction, the work, the impacts on the city, and the cost of building this critical piece of Australian history. This stop has puzzles to be solved.
Dawes Point Park
Standing at the base of the pylon on the southern side, you will hear how the pylons were constructed and huge tunnels were dug in order to support the weight of the arch before the bridge was finished. You'll learn how the granite came from the South Coast of NSW, and was transported by ship and carefully put in place on the facades of the pylons. This location gives a sense of how much effort went into building this truly incredible structure. This tour stop has puzzles to be solved.
The Rocks
We take a step back in time, and wander down cobblestone streets to understand what this area was like before the bridge was built. Hear the stories of how Sydney was "a city of beggers", making it almost impossible to get a job at the time, yet the bridge provided employment, and food on the table, for hundreds of families. We also look into the impact the bridge had on this area, knowing that 800 homes and businesses were cleared in order to make way for the bridges huge footprint. This stop has puzzles to solve.
Inclusions
- Escape-room style puzzles - You'll need your best problem solving skills!
- Mobile App Access - Listen to commentary and enter puzzle answers
- Professional Audiobook Quality Commentary
- Puzzle Tools & Pen/Pencil - You'll need this to solve the puzzles
- Tour Booklet - Incl map, puzzles, and tour info
- Mobile Phone - An Apple or Android device to download the app
- Earphones/Headphones - Recommended hear the audio commentary better
- Entry to the Pylon Lookout Museum (optional ) 25 AUD - Adult /12 AUD - Child
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Service animals allowed
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Meet
Pickup and Dropoff
You will make your own way to the meeting points
Meeting Points
- Circular Quay: Customs House (9.30-10am) Meet in front of the Customs House at Circular Quay, just beside McDonalds. Look out for the unlocked Tours staff - you won't be able to miss us.
- Milsons Point: Bridge Stairs (10.30-11am) Meet at the bottom of the bridge stairs at Milsons Point, just beside 47 Broughton St, Kirribilli. Look out for the unlocked Tours staff - you won't be able to miss us.
End Points
- This tour ends at the Bridge Pylon Lookout on the pedestrian walkway of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. We recommend after the tour going up the Pylon and looking out over the harbour (not included as part of this tour).
