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Explore Perth! YOUR FREE GUIDE TO: Attractions Shopping EXPLORE Dining PERTH! Events Fremantle Tours Rottnest Island Swan Valley Mandurah & Peel Perth Hills Scarborough EXCLUSIVE DISCOUNTS Helping your holiday dollar go further Fold Out Maps! SUMMER | 2019/20 They have Big Ben. We have Big Bells. Visit The Bell Tower, Perth city’s must PERTH see tourist attraction. WESTERN AUSTRALIA Have a go at chiming a bell yourself DAY TOURS & SHORT BREAKS in our Bell Tower Experience Tour, an experience offered nowhere else on the planet! See the oldest bell in Australia dating back to 1550, and the giant 6.5 tonne ANZAC Bell, the largest bell in Australia! 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 Perth’s BIGGEST Hello and day out is just Welcome! 25 minutes away 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 Ride the vintage train and heritage tram… and whatever you look for in a holiday, you are sure to find it in Perth. I know you will leave full of Welcome to Perth, Western heart warming experiences and Australia’s beautiful capital city; many fond memories. voted one of the world’s most liveable cities with an enviable Let us help guide you with this lifestyle. useful publication packed full of things to see and do. You can Visitors can expect plenty of also visit our website, download Meet a woylie after dark... sunshine, friendly locals, world our Apps and follow us on class cuisine from all corners of social media; don’t forget to tag the globe, magnificent wineries us - #helloperth - we’d love to so close to the city, plenty of hear from you! Wishing you a cultural activities to choose from wonderful holiday! and stunning beaches, coastline, wildlife and parks. Sarah Clozza Publisher www.helloperth.com.au [email protected] Hand feed the kangaroos... Come and play. ALL. DAY. LONG. Hop On Hop Off Bus Tours Entry off Beechboro Road and Drumpellier Drive (formerly Lord Street) Perth’s Favourite Tour! @whitemanpark EXPERT COMMENTARY Frequent Departures 7 Days-A-Week 08 9209 6000 | www.whitemanpark.com.au BUY TICKETS ONLINE OR ON BOARD FROM THE BUS DRIVER T: (08) 9370 1000 | www.perthexplorer.com.au 3 40435 WHIT Whiteman Park – Hello Perth (99mmWx210mmH) Ad_FNL.indd 1 20/9/19 9:42 am Explore the beauty OPEN 11AM — LATE of Western Australia 7 days EXPLORE THE PINNACLES HARBOURSIDE FREMANTLE • SINCE 1926 EXPLORE PENGUIN ISLAND 46 Mews Road, Fishing Boat Harbour, Fremantle, WA 6160 EXPLORE THE SWAN VALLEY OR MARGARET RIVER P (08) 9335 7755 E [email protected] W www.kailis.com Contents A Brief History...................................................................8 General Info ....................................................................10 Living in Perth..................................................................14 EXPLORE PERTH ON A CITY WALKING TOUR Tours & Transport............................................................16 See & Do Perth City........................................................24 City Fold Out Map...........................................................31 Greater Perth Map..........................................................35 See & Do Fremantle.......................................................43 Fishing Boat Harbour.....................................................48 Fremantle Map................................................................49 Use code HELLOPERTH when booking. See & Do Greater Perth.................................................54 10% OFF See the Discount section for more information. Including Scarborough, Swan Valley, Perth Hills, Pinnacles, Rockingham, Mandurah & the Peel Region Road Rules in WA...........................................................59 Swan Valley Map.............................................................75 Rottnest Explore the beauty of Western Australia on a small group tour to Island...............................................................................82 destinations around Perth, Western Australia. Enjoy friendly, personal Wine & Dine....................................................................92 service with passionate knowledgeable tour guides. Free hotel pick- Shopping........................................................................102 ups from central Perth hotels PLUS free Wi-Fi and air- conditioned, comfortable buses ensure a stress-free day. Discount Vouchers.......................................................110 Events..............................................................................114 4 Book online or phone 1300 135 752 5 Experience the magic of gold. Unique Heritage Enjoy a guided tour in our heritage building where you will witness a live gold pour and see the world’s Make a day of it largest coin – weighing 1 tonne and worth over AUD 50 million. at Optus Stadium Nuggets View Australia’s most dazzling display of natural gold nuggets Discover Australia’s most including the second largest gold state-of-the-art Stadium nugget in existence. on a behind-the-scenes tour Personalised medallions Enjoy the stunning river Create a forever keepsake or gift and city views from the with a personalised medallion City View Café displaying your own unique message on the back. Explore the Stadium Park precinct including nature Open 7 days from 9am to 5pm playgrounds, public art and 310 Hay Street, East Perth picnic facilities Plan your day now at perthmint.com/visit optusstadium.com.au MINT0058-210x99mm TourismPress_CrownPublication.indd 1 19/2/19 11:56 am The Noongar people have a Fremantle rich cultural heritage that offer The Indigenous Cultures Prison visitors an experience found no where else in the world; they of Australia are the have forged a strong identity that oldest living culture in resonates throughout the state. View the Indigenous art at the Art the world. Gallery of WA and the Aboriginal Art Gallery in Kings Park. Visit the Indigenous communities Charnock Woman, a 25 metre pavement mosiac in Victoria kept their cultural Gardens, East Perth, or the Yagan statue on Heirisson Island. heritage alive by passing Yagan was a Whadjuk Noongar warrior, who fought fearlessly to their knowledge, protect their culture and people during the Swan River Colony in arts, rituals and 1833. There is also a new, nine metre high sculpture of him at performances from one Yagan Square, which was built to embody the spirit and culture of generation to another, the Noongar people. through storytelling, A Brief History It took until the turn of the century to explore most of the state. In painting and dance. 1890, gold was discovered in the subsequent report by Stirling to The first inhabitants Kimberley and Kalgoorlie. This His Majesty’s Government back led to a population explosion and of Australia arrived in England, led to the foundation In the more recent past, established Perth as the colony’s from the north of the Swan River Settlement in development of infrastructure and trade capital, with Fremantle approximately 40,000 June 1829. key landmarks such as Elizabeth to 60,000 years having to upgrade the harbour Quay, Yagan Square, the Ritz Using the Swan River for transport, to cope with increased demand. Carlton (opening in November ago. Prior to the three towns were formed; Most of Fremantle’s original 2019), Crown Towers and the arrival of Europeans, Perth, Fremantle and Guildford. architecture can still be seen Perth City Link - connecting Western Australia Fremantle, 20 kilometres today lovingly restored. With Northbridge to the CBD for the downstream on the coast served the advent of the Second World first time in more than 100 years - was occupied solely as the colony’s functional port by Indigenous War, the 1940s initiated a huge Perth continues its evolution into and Guildford, 20 kilometres to demand for minerals and WA had one of Australia’s most distinctive Australians who had the east was chosen to supply plenty. Lead, iron ore, diamonds, and welcoming cities. Ideally lived peacefully and in produce to the surrounding region nickel, mineral sands, oil and gas; positioned as a business and harmony with the land because of the rich, fertile soil some of the biggest mining and tourism gateway for the world, found in the Swan Valley. exploration companies in the yet sufficiently distanced from for tens of thousands world have offices in Perth. WA’s of years. Experiencing severe labour other cities to maintain its unique shortages, the British sent economy still relies heavily upon character and appeal. Indigenous Australians have a convicts to Western Australia the natural resources sector. 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
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