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SOVEREIGN HILL CRESWICK Sovereign Hill Creswick Woolen Mills Geelong Gallery Bradshaw Street Railway Parade Little Malop Street www.sovereign hill.com.au www.cresswickwool.com.au www.geelonggallery.org.au

Strike gold at Sovereign Hill. By day, experience the gold Creswick Woollen Mills is the home of luxurious, natural Geelong Gallery is one of Australia’s leading and oldest fever that gripped Australia in the 1850s brought to life in fiber products designed in Australia. Founded in 1947 by regional art galleries. The Gallery’s nationally-significant our outdoor living museum. By night, see ‘Blood on the Polish migrant Paul Ryzowy, the Mills is now the only colored collection spans the art of Australia from the colonial period Southern Cross’, a spectacular sound and light show, and woolen spinning mill of its type in Australia. Some of the to the present day and includes Australian and international stay on-site at Comfort Inn Sovereign Hill. luxurious products manufactured at the mills include Alpaca paintings, works on paper, sculpture and decorative arts. throws, blankets and accessories. Gallery is open daily from 10am to 5pm. Admission is free.

BALLARAT HEPBURN SPRINGS BEECH FOREST Arts Gallery of Ballarat Hepburn Bathhouse & Spa Otway Fly Tree Top Adventures 40 Lydiard St North Mineral Springs Reserve Road Phillips Track, Weeaproinah www.artgalleryballarat.com.au www.hepburnbathhouse.com www.otwayfly.com.au

Experience the country’s oldest and largest regional gallery, Since 1895 the historic Hepburn Bathhouse & Spa has offered Otway Fly Treetop Adventures is a nature based rain forest with its amazing permanent collection and busy program of bathing in the region’s mineral waters, drawn directly from walk and Zip Line Tour located just off the Great Ocean Road. temporary exhibitions. Take a tour or walk at your own pace the spring. This mineral water has long been renowned for This 600m long, 25m high elevated Treetop walk gradually with the free iPod tour. Buy local jewelry and ceramics in the its beneficial qualities. takes you above ground level gaining a bird’s-eye view of the shop and enjoy handmade chocolates in the café. Otway’s beautiful forests. TORQUAY Kryal Castle Surf World Surfing Museum APOLLO BAY 121 Forbes Road, Leigh Creek Surf City Plaza Cape Otway www.kryalcastle.com.au http://www.surfworld.com.au Cape Otway Lightstation http://www.lightstation.com

Kryal Castle is a 40 year old theme park, but it is a well- Experience the world’s largest surfing and beach culture Experience the view from Australia’s most significant executed one following a multi-million dollar redevelopment. museum which houses the Australian Surfing Hall of Fame lighthouse (1848), 91 meters above the surging waters of Reopening in March 2013 as Kryal Castle Adventure Park and as part of its comprehensive surfing displays. Surf World Bass Strait and the Southern Ocean. Tour the 1859 Telegraph Resort, this is Australia’ only medieval adventure park, and features a live surfboard shaping bay, an exciting ‘board Station and other historic buildings. Enjoy the Lightkeeper’s recreates a legendary land of myths and medieval adventure room’ and a theatre that screens some of the world’s 4WD Shipwreck tour, discover the Aboriginal cultural site, with knights, dragons, wizards, kings, queens, princesses and best surf and travel films. Recognized as one of “the most and see koalas and kangaroos in the bush of nearby Great fairies. significant centres of world surfing heritage”, by the Otway National Park. Whale watching May to October. International Surfing Association.

Book now: [email protected] 800.788.6685 www.duatravel.com MORE GREAT ATTRACTIONS ON THE GREAT SOUTHERN TOURING ROUTE GREAT OCEAN ROAD - GRAMPIANS - BALLARAT QUEENSCLIFF HAMILTON WERRIBEE South Bay Eco Adventures Hamilton Art Gallery Werribee Open Range Zoo Shop 1B, 4 Wharf East 107 Brown Street K Road www.southbayecoadventures.com http://www.hamiltongallery.org www.zoo.org.au

South Bay Eco Adventures specializes in sightseeing boat A local treasure for over 50 years, Hamilton Art Gallery Get on board for your guided safari tour across the unique tours of Southern Port Phillip Bay. Explore areas only presents a range of exhibitions, programs and events that savannah landscape and discover rhinos, giraffes, zebras and accessible by boat on an up close nature-based adventure stimulate understanding, awareness, and enjoyment of more. Visit our three male Western Lowland Gorillas in one highlighting the unique history, wildlife and coastal the visual arts. Enjoy exhibitions selected from over 7,000 of the world’s largest gorilla exhibits. Come face to face with landscape. View the spectacular Rip, the stretch of water items in the collection covering silver, porcelain, glass, Asian a pride of lions on the African walking trail, visit our family connecting the Bay and Bass Strait, as well as dolphins, seals, ceramics, European and Australian paintings and prints. of hippos at home in the award-winning Kubu River Hippo whales, penguins and sea birds. The purpose-built eco exhibit or experience some of Australia’s very own wildlife boat offers exceptional visibility and a design that ensures a along the Volcanic Plains Walk. smooth, stable and comfortable ride.

ARARAT TOWER HILL PRINCETOWN Gum San Chinese Heritage Centre Worn Gundidj 12 Apostles Helicopters 31-33 Lambert St Princes Highway Glenample, Princetown www.gumsan.com.au www.worngundidj.org.au http://www.12apostleshelicopters.com.au

The dramatic two-storied Gum San Chinese Heritage Centre, Come inside ’s first National Park, a volcanic crater Experience a breathtaking flight over some ofthe most with its authentic Chinese tiled roof, houses a fascinating and international site of geological significance with ash spectacular coastal scenery in Australia. See the entire selection of interactive audio-visual and static displays in layers showing Aboriginal people existed at the time of Shipwreck Coast and Port Campbell NP in style. Journey English and Mandarin. It tells the story of the alluvial gold eruption some 30,000 years ago. Experienced local guides over the Twelve Apostles take a flight to the Bay of Islands discovery at Ararat by prospectors from Southern China. help you engage with Australian wildlife in their natural via London Bridge, or experience the beauty of the entire Discover the fun and delight of gold panning, try your hand habitat whilst gaining a better understanding of native Shipwreck Coast all the way to the Cape Otway Lighthouse. at calligraphy, learn about the Chinese language and play vegetation, Aboriginal lifestyles, food and medicine. traditional Chinese games.

HALLS GAP WARRNAMBOOL Brambuk Flagstaff Hill Great Ocean Road Wildlife Park 277 Grampians Rd Merri Street 29 The Boulevarde www.brambuk.com.au www.flagstaffhill.com www.greatoceanroadwildlifepark.com

This impressive center brings to life the history and culture By day - an interactive 1870s maritime village and museum. Located just 15 minutes away from the famous Twelve of the Jardwadjali and Djab Wurrung Aboriginal communities It offers a glimpse of the time when the seas were the super Apostles, the Great Ocean Road Wildlife Park offers a of south-western Victoria, and offers visitors a range of highway and the coast became known as the Shipwreck unique experience with native Australian Wildlife. Try hand activities and tours as well as information on Aboriginal Coast. By night - world-class sound and laser show feeding the kangaroos, wallabies, emu and deer in the large cultural heritage, local rock art sites and the Grampians ‘Shipwrecked’ which relives the tragedy and triumph of the petting area. The animal sanctuary, with a lake surrounded National Park. ill-fated clipper ‘Loch Ard’ and the dramatic history of the by red gum eucalyptus trees, supports a mob of free range Great Ocean Road. Accommodation available in Lighthouse kangaroos, wallabies and emu. The grazing fields house herd Lodge. animals including deer, sheep and alpacas. Book now: [email protected] 800.788.6685 www.duatravel.com