Sinclair Tour and Travel 5494 5083

Sydney’s Vivid – 4 days

Departs Monday 3rd June

$1999 p p twin share. Single $390

Day One. Monday 3rd June

After pick up from your door as usual, you’ll be transferred to the airport for your flight to

Sydney. We’ll be transferred to our Hotel – the IBIS Darling Harbour – right in the centre of

the VIVID magic. After check in, you have some free time to get your bearings before we head

off on the start of our VIVD adventure. Vivid Sydney is an annual lights festival that

illuminates the city with a dazzling spectacle of colour, music and creativity. It’s quite a marvel

to witness the spectacular transformation of Sydney Harbour into a glittering haven of

extravagant lights. As you can imagine, everything VIVID happens at night, so we’ve tailored

our tour to include as many night time activities as it’s possible to walk!

We’ll walk to the ferry terminal for our early dinner VIVID cruise to enjoy premium views,

photo opportunities galore and a drinks package and dinner. The light projections on the sails

of the Sydney Opera House is one of Vivid’s most iconic events. This magnificent piece of

architecture comes alive with the most amazing three-dimensional light displays and is

guaranteed to take your breath away. After our 2 hour dinner cruise, we can turn our walk

through Darling Harbour into a dream-like dive under the ocean with The Art-Meets-

Technology water fountain, light and laser experience.

Oracle Liquid creates Fantastic Oceans, bringing to the surface of Cockle Bay a story from

deep beneath the ocean, where bioluminescent creatures live. Water features come to life as

jellyfish in a fantastic display of colour. Feature fountains emulate corals and deep sea flora

and lasers ripple like ocean waves.

Another free light show happens at the Australian National Maritime Museum. Projected onto

its iconic rooftop, BBC Earth and Sir David Attenborough’s Blue Planet II takes us into the

fascinating world beneath the waves. This spectacular projection guides us on a journey to the

deep at the most crucial time in our ocean’s history. There is so much to see and do during

VIVID, so take off any time you want to go exploring.

Skylark is a vast play of light stretching from the Sydney Harbour Bridge and Circular Quay to

the outer areas of Sydney Harbour and incorporates interactive lighting of the bridge and

Circular Quay skyscrapers. Titled Bradfield’s Beacon, the laser is positioned on top of the

Sydney Harbour Bridge Now Bradfield’s Beacon with its full-colour laser beams reaches right

around Sydney Harbour, resting on famous sites and moving from the inner harbour to its

headlands. In addition to the beacon, Skylark has 40 interactive pillars of light located above

the Overseas Passenger Terminal and Bennelong Apartments and controlled from a retro-

control deck located near Pier 8. Every 30 minutes the beacon, skyscrapers, pillars of light and

the bridge, combine to create a spectacular two-minute sky show. (D)

Ibis Darling Harbour (02) 9288 7113

Day Two Tuesday 4th June.

After a delicious buffet breakfast at our Hotel, you’re welcome to explore Sydney at your

leisure. We plan to keep you busy at night time and leave you in peace during the day. We are

so close to Sydney’s CBD, Paddy’s Markets and just a short ferry ride to Circular Quay, there

are bound to be loads of things you’d like to do. But in the afternoon, we’re in for a real treat

as we un-cover the stories, history and magic of the Sydney Opera House with an incredible

guided tour, taking you underneath the world-famous sails. Fusing ancient and modernist

influences, and situated on a site sacred to the Gadigal people for thousands of years, the

sculptural elegance of the Sydney Opera House has made it one of the symbols of twentieth

century architecture - a building that, to quote US architect Frank Gehry, “changed the image

of an entire country.”

After our Opera House Tour, we’ll enjoy an early dinner on the edge of the stunning Sydney

Harbour. Then we’ll take a short walk to the Royal Botanic Gardens where there are 22

fabulous light artworks to witness. Pass through the QE11 gates of the Garden and follow a

pathway that weaves through an exciting nocturnal enviroment, revealing wonders created by

artists and inspired by nature. You’ll see within the garden the colourful, turreted façade of

Government House Sydney, which TAFE students have transformed with their own brand of

brilliance. Just a few of the artworks are mentioned below. (BASED ON INFO FROM 2018)

He’e nalu is inspired by the art of surfing and delivers to all who experience it, the joyous

sensation of riding a wave. The name of this mesmeric artwork derives from the Hawaiian

word for the revered art of surfing, he’e nalu, which in English translates evocatively as ‘wave

sliding’. The installation is formed by two walls of light-filled columns that create a

passageway washed in changing shades of blue and orange, reflecting the colours of the ocean

at different times of the day. Coastal sounds are bounced from wall to wall, creating the

enclosed sense of a wave tunnel.

The Bloom is a giant, electric, metallic flower, its petals adorned with mirrored spirals that

refract and reflect light in all directions. And there, at the centre of this shimmering beauty, is

— you. The installation is almost five metres wide enabling visitors to enter to the very centre

of the flower to pose for photos, framed by petals of light, their faces fully in bloom.

Aqueous is an interactive landscape of meandering pathways of light. Reflection and shifting

colour and light react to audience participants as they run and walk along the pathway. The

design of Aqueous is based on three different shaped modular platforms that connect like puzzle

pieces in endless combinations of layouts.

The Nautilus Forest draws from both nature and precise geometry to create an illuminated

forest of spiralling trees. The branches of the forest ripple and pulse with colour. Sometimes

shooting off in independent patterns, sometimes rippling as one unified tree and sometimes

sweeping magnificent hues of light across the whole forest. With more than 40,000 individually

controlled RGB pixels at their disposal, the forest’s programmers can take full advantage of its

intrinsic forms. Each of the 24 trees stands up to 4.5m tall; together they merge into a

meandering forest that entices visitors to enter and perhaps lose themselves within.

This is just a taste of the exotic, the beautiful, the intriguing and the downright strange works

of light that will lure you through the Garden. As you meander past the last of the colour, light

and movement and find yourself out on Macquarie Street, you may ask yourself, “What just

happened?” (B)(D)

Ibis Darling Harbour (02) 9288 7113

Day Three Wednesday 5th June.

Another day to explore on your own or get together with some others to explore the galleries,

museums or shops. Late this afternoon, we’ll catch a ferry around to Circular Quay for our

ferry ride to the Taronga Zoo. (The Zoo is not open to exhibit animals – just lights!) Here

we’ll step inside a world of scientific discovery at Taronga Zoo’s Lights for the Wild (5.30pm

entry), where we’ll find spectacular animal light sculptures. Walk through the mouth of a shark

as it splashes through the façade of Taronga’s heritage entry building, to meet magnificent

aquatic life. Next, tread quietly through the Sumatran jungle, finding rare and ferocious

creatures along the way. Step into the Taronga Centenary Theatre and be immersed in

cinematic light and sound spectacle, then grab a bite (own expense) at the Taronga Food Market

beneath a canopy of stars and a glowing planet earth. You’ll love this inviting trail through an

illuminated bushscape. Plenty of time to find some dinner (own expense). (B)

Day Four Thursday 6th June.

After another delicious breakfast, the morning is yours – to recover, explore, shop – the choice

is yours. Go shopping in the City or perhaps you’d like to join us for a ferry ride to Manly.

Walk the mall, have an ice cream, walk along the beach – so many things to choose from. We

will be collected in the afternoon for our transfer to the airport for our flight home. Here we’ll

be met by a representative of Sinclair Tour and Travel who’ll drive you back to your home.

We do hope you’ve enjoyed your tour with Sinclair Tour and Travel. Please tell your friends.

That’s how our business grows. We look forward to traveling with you again really soon. (B)

INCLUDED IN TOUR

❖ Air conditioned bus

❖ Door to door airport transfers.

❖ Ferry pass

❖ Return Air travel Sydney

❖ Motel accommodation on a twin share basis.

❖ Breakfast (B), Lunch (L) and Dinner (D) as indicated.

❖ All entries as listed.

❖ Name badge, luggage labels & water bottle

GENERAL INFORMATION

BOOKINGS

Please phone 5494 5083 for bookings. A Tour Booking Form will be sent to you

for completion and return with a deposit of $700.00 per person within 7 days to

secure your booking. This will also cover your airfares which must be paid for

as soon as you book.

BALANCE PAYMENT

Balance of payment is to be received at least 60 days prior to Tour Departure

Date. For Tour Bookings made within 60 days of Tour Departure Date full

payment is required on booking. FINAL PAYMENT DUE NOW

CHANGES TO ITINERARY

Sinclair Tour and Travel reserves the right to alter any itinerary due to unforeseen

circumstances beyond its control and to cancel any tour due to insufficient

bookings. A full refund of fare will be made if tour is cancelled by Sinclair Tour

and Travel.

CANCELLATION FEES

Number of days’ notice given Fee payable

More than 60 days Nil

15 – 60 days 50% of Tour Price

8 - 14 days 75% of Tour Price

Less than 8 days 100% of Tour Price

Day of Departure or during tour 100% of Tour Price

In addition to the above fee any moneys paid in respect of bookings with other

tour operators, airfares, attractions, etc. on your behalf and which cannot be

recouped will also be payable. A $50 administration fee (per person) will be

charged on ALL cancellations regardless of the number of days’ notice given.

To cover cancellations due to illness or for loss of baggage we strongly

encourage passengers to arrange travel insurance. We can arrange Travel

insurance for you as we now sell COVERMORE TRAVEL INSURANCE.

Phone us today 5494 5083 for a quote. We just need your date of birth. Prices

are very reasonable.