Adelaide - Melbourne

Tour Details

Operator

Parkwood Personalised Tours

Destinations

Melbourne, Great Ocean Road, Mt Gambier and Ballarat

Departs From

Adelaide

Tour Description

3-Day Tour Adelaide - MT.Gambier – Melbourne
“Magic Great Ocean Road”
Every Thursday
Boutique/Hotel Accommodation
Joint product of Magic Tours Pty.Ltd. and Personalised Parkwood Tours

Day 1
Adelaide – Mt.Gambier – Halls Gap, Grampians National Park

Transfer by Smart-Car from your City accommodation to the Adelaide Airport – pick up time is usually around 0800h. Your domestic flight departs Adelaide for Mt.Gambier at 0910h. You will be greeted by our guide after your arrival at the Mt.Gambier Airport at 1010h. Visit the magnificent Blue Lake, a 5000 year old extinct volcano and some Lime stone formations mother earth has created over millions of years. We then leave Mt.Gambier to travel across rolling hills to Hamilton. Lunch in Hamilton. A pleasant drive via the Serra- and the Mount William ranges into the Grampians National Park to Halls Gap follows, our destination for tonight. We will spend the remains of the afternoon to explore this magnificent National Park with its lofty lookouts and some of the most spectacular views Victoria has to offer. Baroka- and Reed’s Lookouts are definitely worth a visit. Overnight stay in Halls Gap. We suggest dinner at the Kookaburra Restaurant, where local specialities may be tasted. A comprehensive selection of local wines is also available.

Accommodation: Twin/double room basis
Meals: Lunch
Entries: National Park entry fees where applicable
Transport: Smart Car Transfer, flight from Adelaide - Mt.Gambier

Day 2
Halls Gap, Grampians National Park – Ballarat

Breakfast is ready by 0800h. We will leave the Grampians National Park at 0900h and meander along the Mount William range to Ararat and on to the historic Gold mining Town of Ballarat. A short City tour of Ballarat is next on the agenda and we will then visit Australia’s award winning and most significant outdoor gold museum Sovereign Hill where the 1850 gold rush comes alive again for the remains of the day. Learn about the thrill and hardship diggers have experienced from all over the world in those early days. Taste a Cornish pasty for lunch at the New York Bakery on Main Road. One can pan for gold, see the impressive steam engines and steam driven pump at work, watch skilled tradesmen manufacturing beautiful craft - wonder back in time until late in the afternoon. Overnight in Ballarat. We suggest dinner at the Lodge Restaurant, with its ever changing, seasonally influenced menu. A comprehensive selection of local wines is also available.

Accommodation: Twin/double room basis
Meals: Lunch
Entries: Sovereign Hill Historic Park entry fees, National Park entry fees where applicable


Day 3
Ballarat – Great Ocean Road – Melbourne

Breakfast is ready by 0730h. We will leave Ballarat no later than 0830h. A pleasant drive of about two hours, through sheep and cattle farming countryside, follows heading southwest for Port Campbell on the Southern ocean with its scenic limestone coast and rugged Rock formations. We will stop at the 12 Apostles and the site of the tragic shipwreck at Loch Ard Gorge to listen to some fascinating stories of that time. We now traverse the Otway Ranges, famous for its giant Mountain Ash Eucalypt trees to Apollo Bay, where we will have lunch. After lunch, we meander along the historic Great Ocean Road with various stops to marvel at the views and learn more about the past and the tragedies of the unforgiving shipwreck coast to Geelong – the second largest Port in Victoria. From Geelong we will travel to Melbourne via the West Gate Bridge where we will arrive late in the afternoon and we will transfer you to your City accommodation.

Meals: Breakfast and lunch
Entries: National Park entry fees where applicable

Important: Please bring good walking shoes, a rain coat, a warm jumper for cool days and a hat along!