Royal national Park is located 29 km South of Sydney. Formally established in April, 1879, he is the second oldest national Park in the world after Yellowstone in the USA. Initially, this protected nature area was called the "national Park", but in 1955 the name added the word "Royal" in honor of Queen Elizabeth II, who traveled to these places a year earlier during his visit to Australia. In 2006, the Park was declared a National Treasure of Australia.

The Park comprises several settlements – Audley, Maianbar and Bandini, accessible by highway.

As in any other national Park in the Royal there are many Hiking trails, areas for barbecues and picnics. On specially marked tracks allowed mountain Biking, and movement on these tracks bilateral. One of the most popular routes is a two-day journey along the sea coast from Bandini to a place North Era overnight in tent.

The landscape of the Royal National Park is very diverse – from coastal cliffs, gnawing away by sea waves, and small intimate coves to the ancient highland plateaus and deep river valleys. Rivers that flow from South to North, flowing into a wide but shallow Bay, Port Hacking, which is the Northern boundary of the Park. Sandy beaches, open ocean, is a great place for swimming and surfing. Some of the beaches can be reached by road, to others only after several hours of Hiking paths.

Flora of the Park is as varied as its topography. On naked heaths and coastal areas, you can see rosemary, Darwinia, Casuarina, crabgrass, etc. On the peaks of the sand dunes meet the silver banksia macrocarpa oak and Heather. Among these thickets scurry in the present time, ognenovski finches and South magmahost malurids. In the coastal rain forest, human survivors of the invasion of the 19th and 20th centuries, dominate the Australian tea tree longifolia and lomandra.

On the slopes of river valleys grow mainly eucalyptus, pine, red blood trees and shrubs – the banksias, aralia, peppermint. Meet here and orchids, wild lilies, irises and hundreds of other amazingly beautiful colors. The river valley was chosen by many representatives of the birds – Golden swisstony, yellowtail cockatoo, laughing Kookaburra, in the present time, etc. Of the animals here you can see the mountain kangaroo wallaroo, echidnas, koalas, wild dog Dingo.

In the Royal National Park has preserved several buildings of the late 19th – early 20th century: for example, in the village of Audley is still in effect wooden dance hall, built about a hundred years ago, and on the Western edge of the dam is a huge wooden boathouse, listed as a national heritage. On Cape Gibbon, which offers beautiful views of the Peninsula Sutherland, rock carvings of the aborigines at this place once performed rites of initiation. And not far from the town of Karakelong, right on the beach, seen a huge rock in the form of eagle head.