Cultural and Theme Tours

Journey Walks are crime and history tours that reveal Sydney’s secrets and bring to life its stories. Operating since 2016, Journey Walks offers handcrafted adventures through Sydneys colourful past and historic locations. Their walks have been carefully researched, written and curated by historians and script-writers to scratch below the city’s surface and uncover the quirky characters, hidden histories and underworld aspects of Sydney’s notorious heritage.

Join Journey Walks in The Rocks and Circular Quay for a journey into Sydney’s original Convict Colony. In Kings Cross and Potts Point to uncover its infamous golden-age of crime and bohemia. In Surry Hills to bring to life the former haunts and hide-outs of Sydney’s underworld. And in Paddington to explore the rags before the riches. Their young and vibrant team of local guides are history and heritage professionals with tertiary training and fantastic storytelling skills. They offer small group experiences (both public and private tours) that engage, entertain and educate.

Services

Sydney's Convict Colony - The Rocks Walking Story

From $44 to $49

Fascinating history, delivered with energy and insight on a walking exploration of Sydney’s original settlement: The Rocks. Together they will uncover the scallywag stories of convicts, soldiers, rum and rebellions.

Tour Taster: Once upon a time a bizarre colonial experiment took place on the rocky shores of a forested cove. Thousands of miles from home, Britain’s banished thieves would be locked in a jail whose walls were made of ocean, hunger, fear and bush.

Defying the odds, this shanty camp would clutch to life on the banks of a tiny stream. Gardens were grown, rum was traded and homes were carved into the sandstone cliffs.

Centuries changed, legends grew, scallywag Sydney was born. Her squalid secrets etched into the very rocks from which she was built.

Journey Walks invites you to share a part in this story. This tour will keep your eyes wide open, your ears pricked and your imagination ignited.

This tour is led by a local historian who specialises in contemporary storytelling. An interactive and playful atmosphere is created that makes all feel welcome and involved.

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