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® Your Free Guide to: Attractions Shopping Dining EXPLORE PERTH! Fremantle • Rottnest Island Events Swan Valley • Perth Hills Tours Rockingham • Mandurah Scarborough EXCLUSIVE DISCOUNTS Helping your holiday dollar go further SPRING | 2018 WESTERN AUSTRALIA They have Big Ben. We have Big Bells. DAY TOURS Visit The Bell Tower, Perth city’s must AND SHORT BREAKS see tourist attraction. Have a go at chiming a bell yourself in our Bell Tower Experience Tour, an experience offered nowhere else on the planet! See the oldest bell in Australia dating back to 1550! Open from 10am Daily (Closed Christmas Day & Good Friday) Barrack Square, Intersection of Barrack St. & Riverside Dr. Perth Tel: (08) 6210 0444 www.thebelltower.com.au COMPLIMENTARY PERTH CBD HOTEL PICKUP AVAILABLE Tel: 1300 551 687 www.ADAMSpinnacletours.com.au See your Hotel Concierge or call into our Sightseeing Office at Shop 1, Barrack Street Jetty, Perth for more information and to book. Adams_Hello.indd 1 17/02/2017 9:19 am WHITEMAN PARK: SO MUCH Hello and MORE THAN JUST A PARK Welcome! Wonderful Perth is bursting at the seams with cultural events, concerts, festivals, art and a burgeoning bar, cafe and restaurant scene that can rival any capital city in Australia. Wherever you have come from and DISCOVER ALL whatever you look for in a holiday, THE SECRETS OF you are sure to find it in Perth. I WHITEMAN PARK, know you will leave full of heart Welcome to Perth, Western FROM BUSH WALKS warming experiences and many Australia’s beautiful capital city; fond memories. TO BUS RIDES AND voted one of the world’s most EVERYTHING IN liveable cities with an enviable Let us help guide you with this BETWEEN. lifestyle. useful publication packed full of • Vintage bus, train and things to see and do. You can tram rides Visitors can expect plenty of also visit our website, download sunshine, friendly locals, world our Apps and follow us on social Playgrounds, barbeques • class cuisine from all corners of media; see page 9. We’d love to and shady picnic areas the globe, magnificent wineries hear from you; please fill out out • 14 kilometres of so close to the city, plenty of Visitor Survey on the website! shared-use paths cultural activities to choose from Wishing you a wonderful holiday! • A range of speciality shops and stunning beaches, coastline, wildlife and parks. Sarah Clozza • Pedal kart hire Publisher • Caversham Wildlife Park www.helloperth.com.au • Motor Museum of WA • Tractor Museum of WA • Revolutions Transport Museum • Nocturnal Woylie Walks of Woodland Reserve Hop On Hop Off Bus Tours 24hr & 48hr Tickets Available Perth’s Favourite tour! FREQUENT DEPARTURES 7 DAYS A WEEK For more information on this diverse tourist attraction contact 08 9209 6000 or visit www.whitemanpark.com.au Follow us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/whitemanpark T: (08) 9370 1000 | www.perthexplorer.com.au 3 Explore the beauty of Western Australia EXPLORE THE PINNACLES EXPLORE PENGUIN ISLAND OPEN 7 DAYS 46 MEWS ROAD, FISHING BOAT HARBOUR, FREMANTLE, WA 6160 (08) 9335 7755 [email protected] www.kailis.com EXPLORE THE SWAN VALLEY OR MARGARET RIVER Contents A Brief History....................................................6 General Info .......................................................8 Getting Around..................................................12 EXPLORE CAVERSHAM WILDLIFE PARK See & Do Perth City..........................................18 City Fold Out Map.............................................27 Greater Perth Map............................................32 See & Do Fremantle.........................................38 Fishing Boat Harbour.......................................44 Use code HELLOPERTH when booking. Shopping.............................................................50 10% OFF See the Discount Section for more information. Discount Vouchers...........................................55 Dining & Nightlife..............................................60 Rottnest Island...................................................74 Greater Perth......................................................80 Exclusive day trips exploring the beauty of Western Australia led by Including Scarborough, Swan Valley, Perth Hills our friendly experienced Chief Explorers. We pick up from all central Perth accommodation free of charge. Specialists in intimate bespoke Rockingham, Mandurah and the Pinnacles experiences for groups of up to 18 people. Swan Valley Map...............................................97 All tour buses feature complimentary wifi. Events...................................................................106 Book online or phone 1300 135 752 4 5 The Noongar people have a rich cultural heritage that offer Fremantle The Indigenous visitors an experience found Prison no where else in the world, and Cultures of Australia have forged a strong identity that are the oldest living resonates throughout the state. View the Indigenous art at the Art culture in the Gallery of WA, the WA Museum and the Aboriginal Art Gallery in world. Indigenous Kings Park. Visit the Charnock communities kept Woman, a 25 metre pavement mosiac in Victoria Gardens, East their cultural heritage Perth, or the Yagan statue on alive by passing Heirisson Island. their knowledge, It took until the turn of the century to explore most of the state. In arts, rituals and 1890, gold was discovered in the performances from Kimberley and Kalgoorlie. This led to a population explosion and one generation to established Perth as the colony’s trade capital, with Fremantle another, through having to upgrade the harbour storytelling, painting A Brief History to cope with increased demand. Most of Fremantle’s original and dance. architecture can still be seen The first inhabitants subsequent report by Stirling to today lovingly restored. With His Majesty’s Government back the advent of the Second World gas; some of the biggest mining of Australia arrived in England, led to the foundation from the north War, the 1940s initiated a huge and exploration companies in the of the Swan River Settlement in demand for minerals and WA had world have offices in Perth. WA’s approximately 40,000 June 1829. plenty. Lead, iron ore, diamonds, economy still relies heavily upon to 60,000 years Using the Swan River for transport, nickel, mineral sands, oil and the natural resources sector. ago. Prior to the three towns were formed, arrival of Europeans, Perth, Fremantle and Guildford. Western Australia Fremantle, 20 kilometres downstream on the coast served was occupied solely as the colony’s functional port by Indigenous and Guildford, 20 kilometres to Australians who had the east was chosen to supply lived peacefully and in produce to the surrounding region harmony with the land because of the rich, fertile soil for tens of thousands found in the Swan Valley. of years. Experiencing severe labour shortages, the British sent Indigenous Australians have a convicts to Western Australia rich history and culture that is well between 1850 and 1868 to help worth exploring. Like so many establish settlements. 9721 Indigenous cultures of the 18th convicts were transported to WA and 19th centuries, things were on 43 convict voyages. Between about to change. 1850 and 1868 Western Australia was a Penal Colony. The convicts In March 1827, Captain James were involved in a significant Stirling of the Royal Navy arrived amount of infrastructure such as in the Swan River and discovered the Fremantle Prison, Government a land that possessed great House, The Cloisters, the Swan natural attractions, in contrast to River Mechanics’ Institute and the the previous Dutch and French Perth Town Hall. navigators who described New Holland (a name given to Australia by the Dutch) as sterile, forbidding and inhospitable. This landing and www.helloperth.com.au 6 7 Celebrating 25 years i-City Visitor Visit our website to download our Published by: Information Booth Hello Perth Android and Apple Apps, Travelwest Publications to download a PDF of the publication ABN: 48 504 029 210 and to follow us on social media. 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Photos courtesy of: General Info Tourism WA, City of Swan, Fremantle Prison, Facebook “f” Logo CMYK / .eps Facebook “f” Logo CMYK / .eps Visitor Centres in Fremantle also has a helpful City of Stirling, Sarah Clozza, and informative Visitor Centre in City of Armadale Western Australia can & Whale Watch WA. assist with everything Kings Square, at the front of the Town Hall. See the Fremantle Please read & recycle you need to know to Story section on page 46 and enjoy your holiday. the Fremantle Map on page 45. They can book CLIMATE BANKING WIFI accommodation or Banks are open Monday to The City of Perth is proud tours and also have Perth has a sunny Mediterranean Thursday 9.30am to 4pm and to become