Lonely Planet Coastal Victoria Road Trips

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• Publisher: Lonely Planet
• Year: 2016
• eBook ISBN:
  9781743609897
• Print ISBN:
  9781743609439

Destinations

Melbourne

Stylish, arty Melbourne is a city that’s both dynamic and cosmopolitan, and proud of its place as Australia’s cultural capital.

Great Ocean Road

The most iconic of Australian road trips takes in world-class surf breaks, ancient rainforests and koala-filled tree canopies.

Gippsland

Here you will find some of the state’s most absorbing, unspoilt and beautiful wilderness areas and beaches.

Mornington Peninsula

Melbourne’s summer playground since the 1870s, the peninsula has fine beaches and some of the state’s best food and wine.

Goldfields

History, nature and culture combine spectacularly in Victoria’s regional heart.

Gentle hills of Gippsland
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Melbourne

Melbourne regularly ranks as one of the world’s most liveable cities, and it’s not hard to see why – as the epicurean, sporting and, arguably, culture capital of Australia, there is much to see and do.

MELBOURNE

POP 4.25 MILLION

Melbourne is best experienced as a local would: dive into the city’s lanes or climb to an open-air bar atop a former industrial building, and you’ll very quickly learn why Melbourne is Australia’s most happening city.

1 Sights

1 Central Melbourne

Melbourne’s wide main streets and legion of lanes buzz day and night, seven days a week with museums and art galleries dotted throughout. There are two big ends of town: skyscrapers cluster on the east and west ends of the grid – these areas are mostly used by business. Southern Cross Station sits to the west, with Docklands Stadium and the regenerated Docklands beyond. Opposite the central Flinders Street Station, Federation Sq (better known as Fed Square) squats beside the Yarra River and has become a favourite Melbourne gathering place. To the east is the top (‘Paris’) end of town, with its monumental gold-rush-era buildings and designer stores.

Central Melbourne

1 Top Sights

1 Birrarung Marr H7

2 Federation Square F6

3 Hosier Lane F6

4 Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia F6

5 Queen Victoria Market D1

6 State Library of Victoria F2

1 Sights

7 Australian Centre for the Moving Image F6

8 Chinatown F4

9 Chinese Museum G3

10 Eureka Skydeck D7

11 Flinders Street Station E6

12 Immigration Museum C6

13 Koorie Heritage Trust B3

14 Old Melbourne Gaol F2

15 Old Treasu...

Table of contents

• Cover
• How to Use This eBook
• Contents
• Welcome to Victoria
• Coastal Victoria Map
• Coastal Victoria Highlights
• Melbourne City Guide
• Need to Know
• Road Trips
• Destinations
• Driving in Australia
• Behind the Scenes
• Our Writer
• Index
• Back Cover