Shore Excursions -
Melbourne Sightseeing Tours
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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - MELBOURNE TOURS
Melbourne City Sights and Healesville Sanctuary or Warook Farm
Duration 7 hrs / flexible
Departs Port 0830
VEHICLE RATE
$ 150 per person min 4 people
$ 69 per person min 10 people
Includes Transfer, driver/guide and commentary
Port pick-up and drop-off
EXTRAS
Entries - Healesville Sanctuary $ 19 per person
Lunch - Allow $18 p/person
Tours in foreign languages
Meridian Tours welcomes visitors to Melbourne and we look forward to showing you the best of Melbourne.
Melbourne is an elegant city with numerous parks and gardens and cosmopolitan precincts. It is a city of contrasts with grand public buildings and stylish terrace homes from the gold rush era 1850’s – 1880. It was perfectly described by America’s Mark Twain as ‘Marvellous Melbourne’ when he visited the international exhibition of 1888.
The city is regaled for its fashion, theatre, and live music venues (it is Australia’s Jazz capital); for its sporting events, cultural festivals and because its people enthusiastically embrace all things that are fun, avant garde and enriching!
The tour travels the inner city historic land modern precincts and into neighbourhoods. Your guide is a local with an in-depth knowledge and who gives an entertaining commentary with insights into all aspects of the life here in Australia’s second largest city.
Special Interest Inclusions
See famous precincts of St Kilda Beach, Chapel Street, Lygon Street; Lanes and arcades, Royal Botanic Gardens, Queen Victoria Market, State Theatres.
Indigenous Art
** By appointment, visit a private Art Gallery to see modern and traditional fine art. Aboriginal art is acknowledged as the greatest art movement of the 20th Century! And Melbourne is the centre of FINE ART. This is a unique opportunity to see genuine art by traditional masters!
Healesville Township & Healesville Sanctuary
HEALESVILLE SANCTUARY
Just one hour from Melbourne your tour arrives at the beautiful Yarra Valley with its vineyards, horse studs and farmlands. Healesville Sanctuary is home to over 200 species of Australian Birds and mammals. This is the best place to see kangaroos, wallabies, colourful parrots and cuddly koalas up close.
Other: Platypus, Dingoes, Tasmanian Devil, Colourful Parrots and miniscule mammals. A specialist guide will host your visit and answer any questions.
Photo opportunities:
- Hop with a Kangaroo
- Peer at a Platypus (rare animal)
- Tame a ‘Tassie Devil‘
‘Warook’ SHEEP FARM
See the much loved and admired Australian Kelpie working dog.
Experiences at the farm include:
Travel on a hayride around the farm to see the working sheep dogs ‘round-up’ a group of sheep and deliver them to their handler. The handler will also display skill in whip cracking.
See an Aussie shearer at work, hand shearing of sheep using large clippers that requires great skills and physical strength. After the sheep is shorn, visitors see how a fleece is cropped and classed and packed ready for shipping.
At the lake there are a friendly kangaroos to see also wild birds, ducks, geese, emus and ‘Wally’ the wombat.
Meet Cindy an Australian Kelpie
(Her owner is the Director of Meridian Tours)
Once when a customer was booking a tour to Warook, our tour coordinator jokingly asked if they’d like a Kelpie dog companion for the day. Yes they answered- well since then Cindy has been often ‘booked’ by visitors and enjoys going on tours. There’s no extra charge but Cindy can only travel if there’s enough space in the vehicle. Just let us know when you make your enquiry.
More About Kelpies
These are Australia’s much admired and loved working dogs. They are short coated, prick eared dogs, originally from Scotland, and brought to Australia by early settlers. There are various lines of breeds and some with Dingo strains.
There are two types
- The Bench Dog – medium size, solid colour, red
- The Farm Kelpie – slightly larger, black and tan colours, some white.
Kelpies have an innate instinct to herd. A well trained Kelpie is highly prized by farmers to manage their cattle and sheep and cope with very hot and cold weather conditions. They are loyal and willing workers and will run all day to the point of exhaustion. Farmers therefore will take a number of dogs for a days mustering so as to rest and work the dogs.
They are usually trained to bring a herd towards the farmer and respond to eight commands (combinations of whistle, hand signs and words.)
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