Lonely Planet Coastal Victoria Road Trips

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

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Discover the freedom of open roads with Lonely Planet Coastal Victoria Road Trips, your passport to uniquely encountering coastal Victoria by car. Featuring 4 amazing road trips, plus up-to-date advice on the destinations you'll visit along the way, experience the world-famous Great Ocean Road, Melbourne's favourite summer playgrounds and wild coastal landscapes, all with your trusted travel companion. Inside Lonely Planet Coastal Victoria Road Trips: Lavish colour and gorgeous photography throughout Itineraries and planning advice to pick the right tailored routes for your needs and interests Get around easily - easy-to-read, full-colour route maps, detailed directions Insider tips to get around like a local, avoid trouble spots and be safe on the road - local driving rules, parking, toll roads Essential info at your fingertips - hours of operation, phone numbers, websites, prices Honest reviews for all budgets - eating, sleeping, sight-seeing, hidden gems that most guidebooks miss Useful features - including Detours, Walking Tours and Link Your Trip Covers Melbourne, Mornington Peninsula, Great Ocean Road, Torquay, Bells Beach, Twelve Apostles, Gippsland, Wilson's Promontory, Phillip Island and more The Perfect Choice: Lonely Planet Coastal Victoria Trips is perfect for exploring coastal Victoria via the road and discovering sights that are more accessible by car. Planning a Victoria trip sans a car? Lonely Planet Melbourne & Victoria guide, our most comprehensive guide to Victoria, is perfect for exploring both top sights and lesser-known gems, or Pocket Melbourne, a handy-sized guide focused on the city's can't-miss sights for a quick trip. There's More in Store for You: See more of Australia's spectacular countryside and have a richer, more authentic experience by exploring Australia by car with Lonely Planet's Australia's Best Trips guide or Outback Australia Road Trips or Tasmania Road Trips. Authors: Written and researched by Lonely Planet. About Lonely Planet: Since 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel media company with guidebooks to every destination, an award-winning website, mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveller community. Lonely Planet covers must-see spots but also enables curious travelers to get off beaten paths to understand more of the culture of the places in which they find themselves. eBook Features: (Best viewed on tablet devices and smartphones) Downloadable PDF and offline maps prevent roaming and data charges Effortlessly navigate and jump between maps and reviews Add notes to personalise your guidebook experience Seamlessly flip between pages Bookmarks and speedy search capabilities get you to key pages in a flash Embedded links to recommendations' websites Zoom-in maps and images Inbuilt dictionary for quick referencing Important Notice: The digital edition of this book may not contain all of the images found in th

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
AUSTRALIAN SCENICS/GETTY IMAGES ©

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