Exploring Parramatta Park 🌳 – A Walk Through History in the Middle of Sydney! #JourneyThePath #TravelLikeAPro

I finally convinced my husband to go on an excursion to Parramatta Park. Let's go! My husband and I had a rare day off together so we decided to do something So I found a self-guided tour at Parramatta Park and here we are. We're finally at Parramatta Park and they are setting up for the New Year fireworks tomorrow. Parramatta is one of the biggest cities in Sydney and Parramatta Park is a huge green space right in the middle of it. It's a World Heritage listed site meaning it's an important historical place. The park is full of nature, old buildings and interesting stories from Australia's early days. First step, the old government house. This is the oldest public building in New South Wales, built over 200 years ago. This is the old government house. Imagine living here in the 1970s. But when we got there it was closed so we could only walk around the outside. I also found out that they have a ghost tour here. No thanks! Moving right along to the next destination. It was a hot summer day and people were setting up for New Year's Eve. Look at the river. Yeah. Parramatta is one of the best places to watch Sydney's fireworks but I've never gone. I don't like big crowds. It's funny because I'm from Bangkok, one of the busiest cities in the world. This is the old cannon. I guess they used this in the past. So let's go to that way. This way. Where is this? The Dairy. Turn right towards the dairy. Salted Fields, Little Coogdee and Picnic Ground. Yay! There's a little creek down there. Then we reached the river. The view was amazing. Central Park. It reminded me of Central Park in New York. It's hard to believe we were still in the city. There's two little birds in the middle of the river. It looks so strange from that way. It looks like a pine tree. I don't know what it's called in English. Look at that. The way to a good time cafe. So many people. We were waiting for a table. We can come back later. I'm getting packaged. I guess I'll come later with my friends. There's also somewhere with the air con as well. It's a really big view. It's less than an hour. We saw a cafe but it was too busy and my husband didn't want to wait. I was a bit annoyed so I walked ahead and found a cute little bridge. I crossed it while he walked on the road. Then I suddenly hear him say, Oh. I looked up and got a shock. The trees were full of huge bats. Called grey-headed flying foxes. Lots of bats. No wonder it's kind of spooky actually. Along this curve. My husband is really there. Taking photos. They are one of the largest bats in the world. With a wingspan up to 1 meter. It felt like a scene from a horror movie. Not only this. It's along the whole river. I just noticed. Oh my gosh. Too spooky. Next, we found some very old houses called the dairy and ranger's cottages. Follow the path to the top of the hill and discover the dairy precinct located on the traditional land of the Raruk people. Home to the convicts. The dairy precinct has been home to the convicts, dairy maids, park rangers and their families. Be enchanted by one of Australia's oldest colonial cottages. George Salters House. Also known as the dairy cottage. That still stands there today. The public of Parramatta have one of the grandest heritage in this park. And no other park in the Commonwealth can compare with it in historic association. Parramatta Park. Okay, 1887. The title plan of Parramatta Park. New South Wales property information. Interesting. So these two are 300 years old. That's an air con. Look at the old basin. In 1813, Salters moved to Van der Meersland or Tasmania to take up the position of Superintendent of Government Stock. By 1819, he was settled in Hobart, holding a 260 acre grant and had one horse, 400 cattle, 80 sheep, 9 convicts and no wife or de facto. The dairy cottage was built in 1796 and is one of the oldest farm buildings in Australia. It felt like we were on a history tour, not just a walk in the park. We walked along the shady river path. It was a peaceful and great place for a walk or a run. There's three of them. The squirrel like this. Yeah, in the Ice Age. And at first I thought it was a walnut. But my husband is not sure. So we took a photo and check it out to see what it is using Google Lens. It's actually English oak. This one is not too high. Look at this view. and imagined what life was like in the old days. It feels like a scene from Gone with the Wind or Australia. Near the car park, I saw a cute old house near the park's entrance. It looked like a closed cafe, but I could picture myself living here. Our day ended with my husband taking me to Parramatta's shopping centre but just 5 minutes away. The contrast between historic Parramatta Park and the modern shopping mall was huge. It felt like we had travelled through time from early Australia to nature documentary with bats and then back to 2025. Oh well, that was 2024 when I filmed this video. I hope you enjoyed the journey with us. If you're ever in Sydney, give Parramatta Park a visit!