Tassie's Parks and Nature Your itinerary Start Location Visited Location Plane End Location Cruise Train Over night Ferry Day 1 beauty you’ve seen today with local beer and wine or continue your exploration Welcome to Hobart on the property’s wilderness boardwalk. Be sure to check out the hotel’s art gallery that showcases the Cradle Mountain wilderness through the works of Hello Hobart! Settle into your hotel opposite Constitution Dock - minutes from Tasmanian artists. the city centre and the perfect base for adventure (flights to arrive prior to 3pm). Then choose how you’d like to spend your first day in the capital of Australia’s Hotel - Cradle Mountain smallest state. Take an easy stroll along the Derwent River or explore Constitution Dock’s many yachts, boats, and fishing trawlers. This lively area, also the finishing Included Meals - Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner line for the annual Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race, is an energizing kick off to your Day 5 Tassie adventures. After getting acquainted with the city, join your Travel Director and group for a Welcome Reception including Tasmanian cuisine such as fresh Explore Dramatic Cradle Mountain Pacific oysters, catch of the day, and grain-fed beef paired with local wines and Waking in the heart of Cradle Mountain National Park, get ready to explore more beer. It’s a fresh and delicious start to your adventures in beautiful Tassie. of this beautiful, protected landscape. You’ll begin at Waldheim Chalet for a bit of history. Learn how after summiting the peak, Gustav Weindorfer and his wife Kate Hotel - Grand Chancellor were compelled to build Waldheim (meaning “home in the forest”) Chalet to give tourists the opportunity to enjoy the natural surroundings. Get better acquainted Included Meals - Welcome Reception with the land on a boardwalk stroll with your Travel Director through the forest Day 2 on the shores of Dove Lake, gazing up at the towering, jagged peaks of Cradle Salamanca Market and More Mountain and perhaps dolerite peak on a clear day. Look around nearby too, as Bennetts wallabies, echidnas, and pademelons also make their home here. Want Your first full day in Tasmania gets off to the perfect start grazing its food scene at to see more unique Tasmanian wildlife? Consider joining an optional experience the famous Salamanca Market. In this feast for the senses, smell and taste local learning about and getting close (but not too close!) to the Tasmanian Devil. Or cheeses, pickles, crepes, oysters, truffles, cider, and more. Meander through the join an evening animal spotting experience viewing nocturnal mammals and market - learning the local secrets of the market from your Travel Director - marsupials including wallabies, wombats, and possums in their native night-time discovering its stalls and sandstone warehouse of galleries and unique arts and habitat. A creature is always stirring in fascinating Tasmania. crafts shops. Anytime you’re ready for a break, grab a coffee or cool drink in one of the market’s many cafes. Senses awake, you’re ready for a sightseeing tour of this Included Meals - Breakfast, Dinner capital city. You’ll stroll through the Royal Botanical Gardens, a MAKE TRAVEL Day 6 MATTER® Experience, before learning a bit of history at Battery Point - a maritime village built in 1804. See Hobart’s famous Cascade Brewery before driving up to Charming Launceston Mt. Nelson Lookout to soak in views of the city. After a big first day, ask your Today is a big day for Tassie’s food and flavours and you’ll kick it off at Hellyers Travel Director for restaurant recommendations and raise a glass to the end of Road Whisky Distillery in Burnie, home to one of Australia's best single malt your first day. Cheers! distilled whiskies. Get an inside peek as you see what’s distilling, learn how to taste with a Local Specialist, and even choose to pour and wax seal your very own Included Meals - Breakfast bottle to take home - a totally unique and tasty souvenir. Next up, get acquainted Day 3 with rural life at Mount Gnomon Farm on a MAKE TRAVEL MATTER® Experience. Harbourside Village of Strahan Hidden high in the hills, here you’ll Connect with Locals meeting passionate fifth- generation farmer Guy who’ll share his story and give you a tour of his apple Head out of Hobart today for your first taste of dramatic landscapes to the orchard. Then sit down to a farm-to-fork, cider-paired Be My Guest lunch served in cascading waterfalls of Russell Falls in Mt. Field National Park. Then wind your way his beautiful barn overlooking his well-stocked veggie garden. Save room for more to Australia’s deepest lake, Lake St. Clair at 160 metres deep. Pause at the peaceful delicious tastes, after a quick stop in Sheffield, the ‘Town of Murals,’ visit the water of this lake whose aboriginal name means “sleeping water” and snap a few award-winning Ashgrove Tasmanian Farm joining a Local Specialist to sample local photos to remember the moment. You’ll then continue your scenic journey cheeses including cheddar, blue, and English country. After a full and filling day through the rainforest bordered road of World Heritage protected Franklin- you, you’ll head through the Meander Valley to the historic city of Launceston for Gordon Wild Rivers National Park, passing through the old mining town of a good night’s rest. Queenstown, before arriving in the seaside township of Strahan. After a day in nature, you’ll be dazzled by Strahan’s massive Macquarie Harbour, seven times Hotel - Grand Chancellor the size of Sydney Harbour, as you arrive at your hillside hotel. Here we’ll toast to a big day over dinner at Strahan Village’s View 42 Restaurant and Bar diving into a Included Meals - Breakfast, Be My Guest seafood feast of oysters, prawns, mussels, and more that you’ve already come to Day 7 love on your Tasmania tour. Farewell Launceston Hotel - Strahan Village It’s your last day in Tasmania and there’s still plenty to see. You’ll begin with a MAKE TRAVEL MATTER® Experience exploring the natural beauty of Launceston's Included Meals - Breakfast, Dinner Cataract Gorge with insights from an Elder and Aboriginal Local Specialist. Day 4 Experience this river gorge through their eyes as you learn about the flora and Cruise into the Wilderness fauna and the significance the gorge played in their history. Then it's time for a scenic and yummy stop at Josef Chromy Wines. We can't think of a better way to Jump into the wilderness and take to the river this morning on a guided cruise on end your time in Tassie than raising a glass or two sampling the specialties of the the Gordon River Local Specialist. Look out the floor-to-ceiling windows to the region including Pinot Gris, Riesling, Pinot Noir, and Chardonnay. Once you’ve dark waters, stained amber by Button-grass tannins, reflecting this untouched been treated to a few pours, sit down to a meat and cheese platter and your main wilderness. Stop for a bit of history and Dive Into Culture at the isolated Sarah course paired with Pepik Pinot Noir and views of the winery’s English gardens, Island, once a site of a penal colony, and gain insights into Tasmania’s convict picturesque lake and vineyards. Feeling full and happy, all good things must come history. Hear the stories and learn about the natural environment, the flora and to an end. After experiencing so many beautiful places together, bid your travel fauna as you stroll among the 3,000-year-old pine once used in shipbuilding. Visit companions a warm farewell before your transfer to Launceston Airport (flights to the Hells Gates the notoriously treacherous entrance to the harbour before depart after 5pm). docking and going on your way, passing through the mining towns of Rosebery and Tullah. You’ll travel deep into the alpine forest of Cradle Mountain National Included Meals - Breakfast, Lunch Park arriving at your Stays With Stories accommodation. Celebrate the natural All optional experiences for this trip Book with your travel director when you travel from the historic Henry Jones IXL jam factory to Australia's only Georgian corner, and on through town to beautiful Salamanca, taking in the wonders of a convict-built city, with well-preserved Georgian and Victorian AVAILABLE ON DAY 1 architecture. You’ll cover the story of the birth of a new British colony, and Bruny Island Traveller the growth of a lovely city, recalling the good, the bad and the scandalous Savour a delicious al fresco morning tea and a cellar door lunch of specialty characters that set the tone for the early days of Hobart. Things have local produce including Bruny Island Cheese, oysters, salmon, wine, bread changed! See and hear about stories of endurance, business empires, and berries - all grown, made or harvested on Bruny. At The Neck, see the tycoons, adventurers, convicts, women, mothers, villains and heroes. narrow isthmus stretch away south in graceful curves. Enjoy short walks in Discover the marvelous legacy left by the resilience of our convict and free- the South Bruny National Park and see white wallabies, native wildlife and settler ancestors. birds in their natural habitat. Hear the stories of the people who have shaped Bruny Island, from the whalers who used to camp at Adventure Adult Price: $38.00* Bay, to the lighthouse keepers and their families who braved difficult * The Optionals and pricing listed here are a guideline only and conditions to keep the light burning at Cape Bruny.