Pack your cossies, grab the camera, load up the Holden and the kids and set off during the upcoming Christmas school holidays for a good ol� classic Aussie family getaway.

From Brisbane to Sydney or Melbourne to Sydney, relive the fond memories of a family driving holiday, where the journey can be just as much fun as the destination.

Along the way, discover the beauty of New South Wales and a smorgasbord of cool kids attractions that offer some serious fun for the whole family.

From Brisbane heading south to Sydney, plan a pit-stop at Tropical Fruit World or Catch a Crab on tour at Tweed Heads. Take the ride of your life and slide down a toboggan or an indoor ski slope at The Big Banana at Coffs Harbour or tackle the sand dunes at Port Stephens on a quad bike with Sand Safaris. At Gosford, step back in time to life in Sydney 200 years ago at Old Sydney Town or shake hands with a spider at Australian Reptile Park nearby.

From Melbourne to Sydney, take a dolphin and whale-watching cruise at Eden on the Sapphire Coast or hop aboard a boat tour to Montague Island from Narooma. Pop in and say hello to John Howard at Parliament House in Canberra or visit the National Museum and play in the cubby house there. You can always bring out your animal instincts at Mogo Zoo at Batemans Bay or take to the skies hang gliding at Stanwell Tops near Wollongong.

Whether you�re from the Back O� Bourke or Broken Hill, the Outback offers kids a great rural experience on the way to Sydney as well. Kids can shear sheep in Hay at the new �Shear Outback� The Australian Shearer�s Hall of Fame or take to the bush closer to Sydney and see the Three Sisters in the Blue Mountains. If you�re driving in from way out west, kids can don a hard hat and boots and head 100 metres down into the Earth on an underground mine tour in Broken Hill, take a paddlesteamer cruise from Bourke or pan for gold at nearby Lightning Ridge.

Whether you�re heading north, south or east towards Sydney, click on www.visitnsw.com.au for some terrific ideas and suggestions of great stuff to see and do on your way to Sydney.

For media information and images only, please contact Gretta Lie on 02 9931 1498 or gretta.lie@tourism.nsw.gov.au.