HIGHLIGHTS:

• Travel the Western Highway - stagecoach route of the 1850's
  
• Bacchus Marsh - a landscape of orchards - once a resting place for the Cobb & Co stagecoach
  
• Ballarat - enjoy a complete town tour of this gracious city with its exquisite gardens and noble statues
  
• Eureka Stockade - site of the 1854 Miner's Rebellion
  
• Visit Sovereign Hill - an authentic recreation of an 1850's gold mining town. See & experience...
  
• Gold panning in Red Gully Creek
  
• Take a guided tour of the underground mine (own expense)
  
• Blacksmiths & traditional craftsmen
  
• Visit the Gold Museum & "Voyage of Discovery" - an audio visual of life on the Australian goldfields
  
• Visit the many original shops. Perhaps try some homemade boiled lollies! Maybe a Devonshire Tea at the New York Bakery?
  
• The Chinese Village - highlighting Chinese involvement in thegoldfields
  
• Why not ride a stagecoach!
  
• Take in the atmosphere of Main St.
  
• Watch the Giant Crushing Battery
  
• Treat yourself to lunch at the United States Hotel.
• Ballarat - enjoy a complete town tour of this gracious city with its exquisite gardens and noble statues
• Visit the Ballarat Wildlife Park nestled in a native bushland habitat where you can join a guided tour
• Be greeted by Patrick the Wombat
• Feed free range kangaroos
• Experience an emu encounter
• Meet and touch koalas
• See Tasmanian Devils feeding
• See goannas and giant lizards Shudder at the sight of venomous snakes and voracious crocodiles
• Then onto Sovereign Hill to find your fortune in gold
• Gold panning in Red Gully Creek
• Take in the atmosphere of Main Street
• Blacksmiths and traditional craftsmen
• Visit the Gold Museum and "Voyage of Discovery"
• See diggings and mud brick huts
• Why not ride a stagecoach!
• Maybe a Devonshire Tea at the New York Bakery.