What most people call "The Rocks" is actually two distinct neighbourhoods: The Rocks and Millers Point.
We are going to explore both of them.

  • 1.5-hour historical walking tour

  • Experienced tour guides

  • Free booking and cancellation

The Rocks
Free Walking Tour

10.40am from Museum of Contemporary Art (waterside)

tour guides in orange 'Free Tours' uniforms

Booking is essential

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The Rocks free walking
tour will cover:

A group of tourists on a Free Sydney walking tour are gazing the iconic Sydney Opera House in the background. A tour guide in a bright orange 'free tours' uniform.
  • Cadmans Cottage
  • Argyle Cut
  • Foundation Park
  • Hidden pathways and cobbled laneways
  • Observatory Hill
  • Oldest Pubs
  • How The Rocks started
Tourists at the West Circular Quay listening to a tour guide in orange free tours uniform.
  • Who were those convicts?
  • Which pub is really the oldest?
  • Street gangs
  • Rum rebellion
  • Hidden passages
  • Black plague
  • The first hospital
A group of tourists listening stories of early colony
  • Bank robbery
  • The first hanging
  • How time was measured
  • Sydney Observatory
  • How the colony survived
  • Interactions with native Aboriginal people
  • Infamous characters
A group of travelers on a Rocks walking tour gather around the tour guide uncovering local history.
  • Wharfs and warehouses
  • Garrison church
  • Walsh Bay
  • Dawes Point
  • Campbells Cove
  • Signalling Station
  • Time Ball
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  • Green bans
  • Suez Canal
  • The first chinatown
  • The first fleet
  • How the colony started
  • Convicts, governors and larrikens
  • Gold Rush

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Locl Tour Sydney is an independent tour provider not paid or sponsored by any organization.

We rely entirely on contribution offered to us by those who have enjoyed the day.

Our meeting location:

Museum of Contemporary Art (waterside),
Circular Quay

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Museum of Contemporary Art, Circular Quay, Sydney - the meeting location of The Rocks free walking tour.
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T&C

* Due to the nature of The Rocks area our walking tour is not wheelchair accessible.

* Free walking tours are ONLY for individuals, couples and small families under 5 people.

* Organized groups are not permitted to join free walking tours. Groups booked as individuals will not be accepted.

* Our tour guides reserve the right to deny participation of any group.

Q&A

"Do you ever cancel walking tours?"

When a Severe Weather Warning is issued by authorities and being outside is deemed to be unsafe the walking tour will be cancelled on short notice.

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