Not even the heavy rain can dampen the high spirits of the world's tallest man.
Sultan Kosen, who clocks in as the world's tallest living man at 251 cm (8ft 3in) is in Sydney for the Anatolian Turkish Festival.
"Even though it's raining, it's still warm. We don't get that back home," he told AAP on Saturday.
"The air, the water - everything is just perfect."
Mr Kosen, who arrived in Australia last week, says he enjoys his status as the world's tallest man but says it has dozens of disadvantages.
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"I can't fit many places, all doors are too low for me so I have to bend all the time," he said.
A popular sight at the festival, he regularly stood for photos, using crutches to assist his movement.
At times he appeared unsteady, sighing heavily as a group of admirers cramped into the small white tent in Darling Harbour to see him.
"His joints are weak," says his interpreter Fatih, before apologising to Mr Kosen.
"Just one more (photo)," says Fatih.
His incredible growth began at the age of ten, the result of pituitary gigantism, the result of on over production of growth hormones.
Mr Kosen was named the tallest man in the world by the Guinness book of Records in 2009, when he measured a more modest 8.1 feet (243 cm).
He also holds the title for the largest hands in the world , with each one measuring 28.5cm from the wrist to the middle finger.
In August 2010 a tumour affecting the gland was removed and he stopped growing.
But he's aware of competitors nipping at his heels.
"The closest I know is someone who is 2.46 metres but he has stopped growing," he said.
Mr Kosen lives in a town called Mardin, close to the Turkish/Syrian border.
He works on one of his parents cotton and corn farms, driving a tractor and lives with his wife of two and a half months, Merve Dibo, a Syrian refugee he met through family friends.
Mr Kosen will leave Sydney for Turkey on Tuesday.
