The Royal National Park is located 29 kilometers south of Sydney. Officially established in April 1879, he is the second oldest national park in the world after the "Yellowstone" in the United States. Initially, this specially protected natural area known as a "National Park", but in 1955 the name was added to the word "Royal" in honor of Queen Elizabeth II, who traveled to these places a year earlier during a visit to Australia. In 2006, the park was declared a national heritage of Australia.

In the park there are several settlements - Audley Mayanbar and Bandini, which you can reach by road.

As in any other national park in the Royal laid a lot of hiking trails, set up areas for barbecues and picnics. On the specially marked lanes allowed to mountain biking, and the traffic on these paths right. One of the most popular routes is a two-day journey along the sea shore from the town Bandini to North Era with an overnight stay in a tent.

Landscape Royal National Park is very diverse - from coastal cliffs eroding sea waves, and small cozy bay to the ancient high plateaus and deep river valleys. The rivers flowing from south to north, fall into a wide but shallow bay of Port Hacking, which is the northern boundary of the park. Sandy beaches, open ocean - the perfect place for swimming and surfing. To some beaches can be reached on the road to the other - after only a few hours of walking paths.

Flora Park as diverse as its topography. On the bare wasteland and coastal areas can be seen rosemary, Darwin Casuarina, sundew and others. On the tops of ancient sand dunes are found silver banksia, macrocarpa oak and heather. Among these thickets scurry medososy, ognennohvostye finches and southern myagkohvostye malyury. In the coastal rainforest, post-human invasion of the 19th and 20th centuries, dominate the Australian tea tree and lomandra longifolia.

On the slopes of the river valleys grow mainly eucalyptus, pine, red blood trees and shrubs - Banks, Aralia, peppermint. There are here and orchids, wild lilies, irises and hundreds of other amazingly beautiful flowers. River Valley was chosen by many representatives of the birds - golden whistlers, yellowtail cockatoos, laughing Kookaburra, medososy and others. The animals you can see the mountain vallaru kangaroos, echidnas, koalas, dingoes wild dogs.

On the territory of the Royal National Park, survived a few buildings of the late 19th - early 20th century, for example, in the village of Audley still operates a wooden dance hall was built about a hundred years ago, and on the western edge of the dam is a huge wooden slipway for boats, listed as a national heritage . At Cape Gibbon, with a beautiful view of the peninsula Sutherland, found rock paintings Aboriginal - this place was once performed rites of initiation. And not far from the town Karrakarong, right on the beach, a huge rock is visible in the form of an eagle.