
3 day Magic Great Ocean Road ADL - MEL |
Departing every Thursday, our magical 3 day/2 night tour between Melbourne and Adelaide lets you see spectacular Australian scenery including the 12 Apostles, London Bridge, Loch Ard Gorge, kangaroos, koalas, wildlife, wineries, Aboriginal culture. Stay at quaint B&B and lodges.
Adelaide to Melbourne via the Great Ocean Road, Grampians, Ballarat
Coonawarra
Limestone Coast South Australia
Full days, featuring the Great Ocean Road, Grampians, historic Ballarat.
We operate in small groups with a maximum of 10 people. We require a minimum of 2 people to operate the tour every Thursday.
Reasonable level of fitness required. Please be aware that there are weight restrictions on regional flights.
Day 1 Adelaide - Mt.Gambier - Halls Gap, Grampians National Park
Your flight departs Adelaide for Mt.Gambier at 0910h. 1010h. meet our guide at the
Mt.Gambier Airport. 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. Travel via the Serra- and the
Mount William ranges into the Grampians National Park to Halls Gap, 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
Day 2
Halls Gap, Grampians National Park - Ballarat
Depart the Grampians 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 and 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. Try
panning 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.
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. 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.
Your experienced guides have local knowledge on Australian flora, fauna and wildlife. Customers need to be aware of luggage weight restrictions on regional flights.Small group tour.
Departs every Thursday Min 2 pax. |
Activity rate guide
AUD$ 1495
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PWPT102 |