Campervan in Melbourne is best for budget traveler.

Some of Australia’s most beautiful and interesting tours start from Melbourne and include historic towns and stunning scenery. Many require an overnight stop to do them justice and in such cases booking ahead is strongly recommended.

Ballarat and Sovereign Hill
110 km from Melbourne via the Western Freeway
A must for the tourist if only to visit Sov¬ereign Hill, arguably the most authentic reconstruction of a nineteenth-century goldmining township in the world. See: Ballarat entry in A-Z listing; and the Golden Age.

Werribee Park
35 km from Melbourne via the Princes Highway
Just outside Werribee,
mansion of some sixty rooms, built in the 1870s for the Chirnside brothers, who had established a pastoral empire in the western district. Now owned by the Victorian Government, Werribee Park is open daily. There are extensive formal gardens, a restaurant and kiosk. Nearby are the Victorian State Rose Garden, an open range zoo, an equestrian centre, picnic and barbecue facilities and a golf course. Nearby Point Cook RAAF Museum (open Sun.—Fri.) has adjacent picnic and barbecue facilities; the new National Air and Space Museum is being constructed here. There is nude bathing nearby at Campbell’s Cove.

Geelong, Queensdiff and Point Lonsdale
107 km from Melbourne lie
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Queenscliff and Point Lonsdale. Stay overnight at a classic nineteenth-century hotel; try the Vue Grand, Ozone or the Queenscliff, each located in Queenscliff. See: Individual town entries for Geelong and Queenscliff in A-Z listing.
The Great Ocean Road and the Otway Range
140 km from Melbourne along the south-west coast
See: The Great Ocean Road.

Yarra Valley wineries
40-60 km from Melbourne via the feftaroondah and Melba highways, or via Heidelberg, Greensborough and the Diamond Valley
Throughout the Yarra Valley, there are numerous vineyards and wineries, from Cottlesbridge in the north to War- burton in the south (centred on Coldstream/Yarra Glen), that produce

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Melbourne's city streets

From the traditional meeting place of Melburnians - “under the clocks" at Finders Street station - to grandiose Parliament House, this walk (about 2km) covers civic and commercial aspects of Melbourne.

The station steps open on to the bustle of the city centre. Across the road is the new Federation Square development, featuring the Ian Potter Centre (see page 100). then Swanson Street and the Gothic grandeur of St Paul’s Cathedral. Modern City Square marks the junction with Collins Street, dominated by the splendid Town Hall.

In Queen Street the elaborate Safe Deposit Building (No 90) is dwarfed by tune soaring AJNZ Tower. Trams and shoppers throng Bourke Street Mail. 'Off which runs the city’s oldest shopping gallery . Royal Arcade. Colourful archways signal the entry to Chinatown.

The god of city streets ends where Little Bourke Street emerges into Spring Street, overlooked by the imposing colonnade of Victoria’s Parliament House, and the Windsor Hotel of 1883. Near by stands the Old Treasury Building, completed in 1862. which contains the Gold Treasury Museum, dealing with Melbourne's history, architecture and comtemporary life.

Return to Flinders Street station via the eastern end of Collins Street.
Along the Yarra
A 5km walk along Melbourne’s River Yarra into the green spaces of Kings Domain and the Botanic Gardens.

Downstream from Princes Bridge, the Yarra is crossed by a footbridge.
Avoiding the tempting riverside cafes of the Southgate Precinct, you are rewarded with a stunning view of the city skyline from Southbank Promen¬ade on the far side of Princes Bridge.
Negotiate the crossing of Alexandra Avenue with care and enjoy the calm of Kings Domain, with its various focal j points like the Sidney Myer Music Bowl and the Pioneer Women’s Memorial Garden. The far bank of the lake in the Royal Botanic Gardens marks the outermost point of thewalk, excuse enough for a pause at the lakeside cafe.

Beyond the Herbarium and Visitor Centre is the Shrine of Remembrance. whose outside gallery gives a wonderful vista back towards the centre of Melbourne.
The return to Finders Street station can be made on foot or by tram along St Kilda Road.

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