Shore Excursions - Melbourne Sightseeing Tour
TOUR ONE: Melbourne City Sights and Aboriginal Culture
TOUR TWO: Melbourne City Sights and ‘Warook’ Farm
TOUR THREE: Melbourne City Sights and Healesville Sanctuary
ABOUT MELBOURNE
MELBOURNE TOUR ONE
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Melbourne City Sights and Aboriginal Culture
Melbourne City Sights Tour Program:
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Aboriginal Culture and Heritage:
Meridian Tours is the only operator to offer this customized tour.
To experience Aboriginal Culture and Heritage, visitors believe they must travel 3000 miles to Outback Australia. However, Melbourne has sites of interest and indigenous collections of a scale and variety that cannot be found elsewhere.
Australian Aborigines have the oldest continually maintained culture in the world spanning possibly 50,000 years. Indigenous art, stories and systems of beliefs are undoubtedly the oldest on earth.
Your Customized Tour Visits:
1. An Aboriginal Cultural Centre
Learn how Aborigines lived on the land, hear the ancient digeridoo and see boomerang throwing.
2. Bunjilaka at Melbourne Museum
See Indigenous artefacts from Australia’s largest ethnological collection.
3. It visits a private Art Gallery to see modern and contemporary fine art.
Aboriginal Contemporary Art is regarded as one of the greatest art movements of the 20th Century and this is a unique opportunity to view the Art and gain an understanding of its origins.
Specialist guides are engaged at each venue to provide information tailored to your specific interest.
MELBOURNE TOUR TWO
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Melbourne City Sights and ‘Warook’ Farm
Melbourne City Sights Tour Program:
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‘Warook’ Sheep Farm:
Just one hour from Melbourne the tour travels into the southern Australian countryside.
FARM TOUR - 1 hour duration
Experiences at the farm include:
1. Working Sheep Dogs
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.
2. Sheep Shearing
Hand shearing of sheep using large clippers is requires great skills and physical strength. It is the best way to cut the sheep’s wool. Visitors to will see an Aussie shearer at work.
3. Wool Classing
After the sheep is shorn, visitor learn how the fleece is cropped and classed and packed for shipping.
4. Kangaroos
At he lake there are a friendly kangaroos to see also of wild birds, ducks, geese, emus and ‘Wally’ the wombat.
MELBOURNE TOUR THREE
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Melbourne City Sights and Healesville Sanctuary
Melbourne City Sights Tour Program:
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Healesville Sanctuary – approx 1 hour duration
Located in the picturesque Yarra Valley, and just one hour north of Melbourne. This tour provides visitors with the opportunity to see unique Australian wildlife in a natural bush land setting.
The sanctuary features the largest collection of indigenous Australian wildlife in the world. 200 species of native animals displayed in a bush land setting.
Special Interest:
- Kangaroos
- Cuddly koalas
- Platypus
- Dingoes
- Tasmanian Devil
- Colourful Parrots
- Little Mammals
A specialist guide will host your visit and answer any questions.
ABOUT MELBOURNE
Background:
Federation Square - Melbourne's newest
public building
Aborigines originally inhabited the region for 50,000 years. In 1835 European settlers arrived and took over the land for farming and trade. In the 1850s gold was found and the population grew quickly.
By the 1880s Melbourne was a city of grand buildings with an international reputation in trade and culture. It had more millionaires than New York, and members of its society indulged themselves in a lavish lifestyle and building elegant city mansions.
Today Melbourne is a city of 3.5 million people - a blend of 60 nationalities that has contributed to its colourful cosmopolitan culture. Melbourne is a vibrant international city with contemporary and historic architecture. It has wide tree-lined boulevards and a public transport system that makes journeys easy and places readily accessible.
Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne built in 1880
Melbourne, Culture Capital of Australia
- Theatre
- Opera
- Ballet
- Symphony Concerts
- Cabaret
- and host to international festivals.
Melbourne, Sports Capital of Australia
- The Australian Tennis Open
- The Australian Grand Prix
- The Australian Masters Golf Championship
- The Melbourne Cup – Horse Racing Event
- Home of the Australian Football League
Melbourne's Coffee Culture has a life
and language of its own
Melbourne, Wine and Food Capital of Australia
A thriving local agricultural industry provides the finest Australian meats, Australian seafoods, The famous Queen Victoria Market is the largest undercover fresh produce market in Australia and a popular tourist attraction.
Melbourne’s Coffee Culture
In Melbourne you can experience a distinctive coffee culture. Coffee in Melbourne is an occasion and during your shore excursion, there will be time to try the various styles and blends. Your barrista will patiently explain the combination to be sure you get exactly what you want!
Melbourne, Fashion and Shopping Capital of Australia
The centre of Australia’s fashion retail and textile industry - Melbourne designer stores and large department stores. During your shore excursion we can stop at shops or markets to buy Australian fashion items.
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