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Sidney

Australia · 12 quests

History

2 quests
Sydney Harbour Bridge, Sidney🇦🇺 Sidney
Sydney Harbour Bridge
Its steel arch earned it a clothing nickname
Paddington Reservoir, Sidney🇦🇺 Sidney
Paddington Reservoir
Water once filled these brick garden arches

Nature

2 quests
Secret Garden, Sidney🇦🇺 Sidney
Secret Garden
A harbour garden grew on abandoned railway land
Botanic Gardens, Sidney🇦🇺 Sidney
Botanic Gardens
The colony's first farm failed on this shore

Art

1 quest
Forgotten Songs, Sidney🇦🇺 Sidney
Forgotten Songs
Why do empty cages still sing?

Food

3 quests
Chicken Fricassée, Sidney🇦🇺 Sidney
Chicken Fricassée
The chicken is cooked in sauce, not roasted whole
Sydney Rock Oysters, Sidney🇦🇺 Sidney
Sydney Rock Oysters
These oysters grow along Australia's east coast
Fish and Chips, Sidney🇦🇺 Sidney
Fish and Chips
The fish wears a crisp batter coat

Beach

1 quest
Bondi Beach, Sidney🇦🇺 Sidney
Bondi Beach
The sea fills a pool at its southern edge

Sport

1 quest
SCG, Sidney🇦🇺 Sidney
SCG
A grassy hill still faces the pitch

Party

2 quests
Baxter Inn, Sidney🇦🇺 Sidney
Baxter Inn
Its whisky bottles fill the walls underground
Old Mate's Place, Sidney🇦🇺 Sidney
Old Mate's Place
The workday ends on a hidden rooftop

Australia

Photo quests in Sidney

What the catalogue actually holds here, and which of it is worth rearranging a day around.

Sidney holds twelve quests across every category the catalogue keeps, led by Food with three — though only just, with two in History behind it.

One is tier 1, the tier kept for what a visitor would not have found on their own: Forgotten Songs. It is also the only quest here whose check-in asks for PRO; the other eleven are open on any plan. Tier 3 covers nine of them, which is the label for what a visitor would expect a travel app to have anyway.

A food quest names the dish rather than the restaurant: the pin sits on the room that serves it, but what you are going for is the plate. History here means places where something happened and the ground still shows it, which is also where the famous version and the standing version most often part company. Every check-in works the same way: the geotag your camera wrote into the photo has to land within 200 m of the quest's own point.

By category

Each of these opens the whole category across every city, with the Sidney quests among them.

Tier 1

The unexpected ones

The one quests in Sidney the catalogue files as finds rather than fixtures — the half of a city a guidebook has no room for.

Nearby

Cities near Sidney

Ranked by distance rather than by border, because from here the next useful stop is often the one in the next country.

Questions

About quests in Sidney

How many photo quests are there in Sidney?
12, across all seven categories the catalogue uses. The deepest groups are Food (3), History (2) and Nature (2). Among them: Sydney Harbour Bridge, Secret Garden and Forgotten Songs.
What is there to do in Sidney beyond the obvious?
One of the 12 quests in Sidney is tier 1, which is the catalogue's own mark for a find rather than a landmark: the pipeline that writes it is told that tier 3 is "everything a visitor would expect a travel app to have", and that tiers 1 and 2 are "only the unexpected finds". Sidney holds one at tier 1, two at tier 2 and nine at tier 3. The tier 1 quest here is Forgotten Songs, in Art.
Can you do all the Sidney quests on one trip?
Yes, given a few days. Every one of the 12 falls within 6.6 km of the middle of the Sidney list — walking and local transport, not day trips — so this is a list to plan a visit around rather than a reason to extend one.
Which Sidney quests can you do for free?
11 of the 12 can be checked in on the free plan, and all 12 can be read and travelled to without paying anything — the catalogue is open signed out, on every plan. PRO covers the check-in on the hardest tier, which in Sidney means one quest: Forgotten Songs.
How do I prove I visited a place in Sidney?
Take the photo at the place and upload it. Your browser reads the location the camera wrote into that file and measures it against the quest's own coordinates; inside 200 m the check-in counts. The distance is measured to the point, not to the city: being in Sidney is not what is checked, and a photo taken across town from Sydney Harbour Bridge fails exactly the way one taken at home does. A file with no location in it cannot be checked at all, and a photo that has been through a messaging app usually arrives that way — upload the original out of the camera roll rather than a copy someone sent back to you. The Food quests in Sidney sit on the room where the dish is served rather than on the dish, so that address is what the 200 m is measured from.