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victoria’s 101 best tourism experiences

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Tourist locations in Victoria

top ten must do's in victoria

  1. 1drive the great ocean road
  2. 2audax alpine classic
  3. 3ford discovery centre
  4. 4wilsons promontory
  5. 5walhalla - experience the rich history
  6. 6the blues train - queenscliff
  7. 7skandia geelong week
  8. 8grampians national park
  9. 9view mt sturgeon from the royal mail hotel
  10. 10great victorian bike ride

number 11 to 101

  1. 11chocolate mill
  2. 12point nepean – mornington peninsula national park
  3. 13penguin parade
  4. 14puffing billy
  5. 15sovereign hill
  6. 16photography made easy workshops & walking tours, melbourne
  7. 17port of echuca
  8. 18linden gardens rainforest retreat
  9. 19rupertswood mansion “birthplace of the ashes”
  10. 20phillip island helicopter flights
  11. 21army museum, bandiana
  12. 22cycle the east gippsland rail trail
  13. 23sky high mt dandenong observatory and restaurant
  14. 24yarra valley wineries
  15. 25pettavel winery & restaurant, waurn ponds
  16. 26manyung gallery- mount eliza
  17. 27bright
  18. 28pioneer settlement museum & swan hill regional art gallery
  19. 29moonlit sanctuary
  20. 30port fairy
  21. 31queen victoria market
  22. 32tarra bulga national park
  23. 33canoe safari on the Goulburn River
  24. 34melbourne zoo
  25. 35aussie rules football
  26. 36boroka downs
  27. 37great south west walk
  28. 38de bortoli winery and restaurant
  29. 39hepburn springs & daylesford
  30. 40royal botanic gardens, melbourne
  31. 41wycheproof races
  32. 42winery experiences on the mornington peninsula
  33. 43melbourne seaplanes
  34. 44talbot farmers market
  35. 45yarra valley tourist railway
  36. 46kermonds, warrnambool
  37. 47longleat winery, murchison
  38. 48red hill markets
  39. 49around the bay in a day bike ride
  40. 50otway fly treetop walk
  41. 51whittlesea country music festival
  42. 52topez art and garden gallery, tyabb
  43. 53highbury tearooms & model village railway, teesdale
  44. 54coffee basics
  45. 55mornington racecourse craft market
  46. 56clunes back to booktown
  47. 57Max’s, Red Hill
  48. 58new years eve, nathalia
  49. 59a maze ‘n‘ things
  50. 60point impossible beach
  51. 61SPC Ardmona KidsTown Adventure Playground
  52. 62avenel maze
  53. 63her majesty’s theatre, ballarat
  54. 64tyabb packing house
  55. 65garden world, keysborough
  56. 66manangatang races
  57. 67buchan caves
  58. 68tour the great alpine road
  59. 69kerrisdale mountain railway and museum
  60. 70paddle steamer curlip - orbost
  61. 71national wool museum, geelong
  62. 72healesville sanctuary
  63. 73little desert nature lodge
  64. 74scuba diving portsea pier
  65. 75beechworth
  66. 76brown brothers epicurean centre & milawa gourmet region
  67. 77gisborne peak winery
  68. 78macedon spa
  69. 79royal botanic gardens, cranbourne
  70. 80sault restaurant, sailors falls
  71. 81bellarine railway
  72. 82cape otway lightstation
  73. 83cowwarr art space, central gippsland
  74. 84harrietville
  75. 85ashcombe maze and lavender gardens
  76. 86skydiving over the yarra valley
  77. 87metung
  78. 88phillip island grand prix (gp) circuit
  79. 89ninety mile beach
  80. 90holgate brewhouse at keatings hotel
  81. 91volcanic cones, clunes/smeaton
  82. 92walk to art
  83. 93eureka skydeck
  84. 94nelson
  85. 95marysville
  86. 96holiday park holidays
  87. 97dandenong ranges national park
  88. 98melbourne cricket ground - mcg
  89. 99cycle the murray to the mountains rail trail
  90. 100scenic flights over 12 apostles
  91. 101city circle tram

other places to think about

  1.  1860 luxury accommodation - beechworth
  2.  4wd victorian high country
  3.  a paddle-steamer experience
  4.  abbotsford convent
  5.  adventure activities
  6.  adventure park geelong
  7.  agnes falls, toora
  8.  aireys inlet lighthouse
  9.  albert park reserve
  10.  allansford cheese world
  11.  antique/bric-a-brac stores within the goldfields
  12.  aquatique at the waves, phillip island
  13.  art galleries of the goldfields
  14.  art on track gallery
  15.  arthurs seat
  16.  australian international airshow, avalon
  17.  australian tennis open
  18.  autumn in jamieson
  19.  balgownie estate vineyard resort & spa
  20.  baliana spa
  21.  balinese retreat
  22.  ballarat bird world
  23.  ballarat botanic gardens
  24.  ballarat heritage driving tours
  25.  ballarat heritage walking trails
  26.  ballarat steakhouse
  27.  ballarat wildlife park
  28.  beeripmo walk
  29.  begonia festival, ballarat
  30.  bendigo
  31.  bendigo ninesevensix restaurant tram
  32.  bendigo pottery
  33.  big4 beacon resort queenscliff
  34.  billabong ranch - echuca
  35.  black spur, yarra ranges national park
  36.  blackwood general store
  37.  blackwood hotel
  38.  blairgowrie
  39.  blaze rock retreat
  40.  blue lotus watergarden
  41.  bmw motorcycle tours
  42.  boat ride, federation square to docklands
  43.  bogong plains to falls creek
  44.  bogong village
  45.  bollards at waterfront geelong
  46.  bonegilla migrant experience
  47.  bonsai island, phillip island
  48.  boort
  49.  bottom drawer antiques moorooduc
  50.  boundary bend
  51.  brambuk the national park and cultural centre
  52.  breakfast in ballarat
  53.  bridgewater beach (portland)
  54.  buckland valley
  55.  bunurong marine national park
  56.  bunyip/tarago state park
  57.  burrinja gallery, upwey
  58.  cafe la sofitel
  59.  campaspe house
  60.  camperdown township
  61.  camping along the murray river
  62.  camping in wyperfeld national park
  63.  cape conran national park
  64.  cape schanck lighthouse, boardwalk and cottages
  65.  cape woolamai walk, phillip island
  66.  captains cove
  67.  caribbean gardens
  68.  carman’s tunnel, maldon
  69.  carols by candlelight
  70.  castlemaine
  71.  castlemaine festival
  72.  cathedral range state park
  73.  central deborah gold mine
  74.  champagne train, daylesford
  75.  champions - australian racing museum
  76.  charlottes on main cafe
  77.  chateau yering historic house hotel
  78.  chris’s beacon point restaurant
  79.  churchill island heritage farm
  80.  city scenic helicopter flight - melbourne
  81.  cliff walk at sorrento
  82.  coal creek heritage village
  83.  cobram
  84.  collingwood childrens farm
  85.  colonial tramcar restaurant, south melbourne
  86.  coolart Wetlands & Homestead
  87.  craigieburn grasslands
  88.  cricket for over 60’s
  89.  croajingalong national park
  90.  cruise the spectacular gippsland lakes
  91.  cuckoo restaurant, olinda
  92.  cycle great southern rail trail - south gippsland
  93.  cycle the gippsland plains rail trail
  94.  dargo
  95.  dartmoor tree carvings
  96.  deakin reserve, shepparton
  97.  delft blue pottery
  98.  diamond valley miniature railway
  99.  didjun skin and body,
  100.  dimboola
  101.  dinkarna holiday cottages, barmah
  102.  dirt bike riding, upper goulburn
  103.  discover melbourne’s laneways
  104.  discover the seaside town of flinders
  105.  disney on ice
  106.  domaine chandon – green point
  107.  drive the grand ridge road
  108.  dunkeld races
  109.  dunolly
  110.  easter fair in bendigo
  111.  echuca brewing company
  112.  echuca jazz, wine and food festival
  113.  endota day spa, mornington
  114.  explore apollo bay
  115.  explore the waterfalls and rainforests of the otways
  116.  fairfield park boathouse
  117.  fairy park
  118.  federation square
  119.  feeding possums at treasury and fitzroy gardens
  120.  fernleigh farms farm store
  121.  flemington racecourse market
  122.  flemington spring carnival
  123.  flinders lane galleries, melbourne
  124.  flinders street railway viaduct
  125.  flyfishing on the howqua river
  126.  food & wine in bendigo and heathcote
  127.  forest edge restaurant, gembrook
  128.  frankston
  129.  frankston holiday village
  130.  geelong botanic gardens
  131.  geelong highland gathering
  132.  geelong lawn tennis club
  133.  george’s boutique b & b and culinary retreat
  134.  gippsland vehicle collection, maffra
  135.  gipsy point lakeside boutique resort
  136.  glen isla house, phillip island
  137.  glenelg river
  138.  go karting experience
  139.  go shopping in melbourne
  140.  golden dragon museum
  141.  goldsmith’s in the forest
  142.  golf on mornington peninsula
  143.  golfing on the murray
  144.  gordon studio glassblowers red hill
  145.  gourmet food in gippsland
  146.  grampians pyrenees tours
  147.  grand ridge rail trail
  148.  great dividing trail
  149.  gum san chinese heritage centre, ararat
  150.  gumbuya park
  151.  gunbower island
  152.  gunnamatta surf beach
  153.  gunnamatta trail rides
  154.  gws anderson scout park - cross country bike trail, officer
  155.  hamilton art gallery
  156.  hang gliding
  157.  hanging rock
  158.  hastings and western port bay
  159.  hawking books at birregurra
  160.  hepburn springs bathhouse
  161.  heritage towns
  162.  herring island
  163.  high country rail trail
  164.  high tea at sofi’s at the sofitel melbourne
  165.  hire a houseboat
  166.  historic goldrush townships
  167.  historic slab hut & exhibition centre orbost
  168.  historic williamstown
  169.  holden high country cycle challenge
  170.  hot air balloon ride over melbourne
  171.  hot air balloon ride over yarra valley
  172.  immigration museum
  173.  inverloch
  174.  iron cottages
  175.  jet boat adventures
  176.  jilarty gelato bar
  177.  jirrahlinga koala & wildlife sanctuary
  178.  johnny mullagh cricket centre
  179.  jolimont rail lines
  180.  kalimna, lakes entrance
  181.  kayaking the upper yarra
  182.  kelpie festival, casterton
  183.  kilcunda
  184.  king valley
  185.  koala conservation centre, phillip island
  186.  koonwarra
  187.  koorie heritage trust
  188.  kryal castle
  189.  la mama theatre
  190.  lake bolac eel festival
  191.  lake house
  192.  lake mulwala
  193.  lake pertobe adventure park
  194.  lake pertobe, warrnambool
  195.  lake tali karng
  196.  lake tyers beach
  197.  lakes entrance
  198.  laser skirmish
  199.  lavandula swiss italian farm
  200.  learn to surf
  201.  lets talk retreat blackwood
  202.  licola
  203.  living legends: the international home of rest for champion horses
  204.  loch
  205.  loch sport
  206.  lucini’s old macaroni factory - hepburn springs
  207.  lyrebird forest walk, mirboo north
  208.  macedon ranges
  209.  maling road, canterbury
  210.  mallacoota
  211.  maloa house gourmet delights
  212.  man from snowy river bush festival - corryong
  213.  mansfield zoo
  214.  marine discovery centre queenscliff
  215.  maritime history at flagstaff hill & portland maritime discovery centre
  216.  maroondah reservoir park
  217.  maryborough
  218.  marylands country house, marysville
  219.  mcclelland gallery + sculpture park
  220.  mckillops bridge drive
  221.  mclelland
  222.  melbourne 360 - rialto observation deck
  223.  melbourne aquarium
  224.  melbourne bars, restaurants and cafes
  225.  melbourne city at night
  226.  melbourne golden mile heritage trail
  227.  melbourne grand prix
  228.  melbourne greeter service
  229.  melbourne international comedy festival
  230.  melbourne international film festival
  231.  melbourne medieval fayre and tourney MMFAT
  232.  melbourne museum
  233.  melbourne visitor centre
  234.  melbourne’s bike paths
  235.  melbourne’s luna park
  236.  melville’s caves
  237.  meredith music festival
  238.  merricks general store
  239.  middle park village
  240.  mildura
  241.  millduck strawbale bed & breakfast
  242.  mineral spa wellness retreat
  243.  miss marples tea rooms, sassafras
  244.  mitchell river silt jetty
  245.  mitchelton winery
  246.  montsalvat
  247.  moonlight cinema
  248.  mooving art shepparton
  249.  morningmist eildon
  250.  mornington peninsula beaches
  251.  mornington tourist railway
  252.  mornington wednesday market
  253.  morwell centenary rose garden
  254.  mossvale park, leongatha
  255.  mount buffalo
  256.  mount cannibal, garfield north
  257.  mount macedon
  258.  mount zero olives
  259.  mountain bike riding followed by wineries, mount beauty
  260.  moyneyana festival port fairy
  261.  mt baw baw
  262.  murrabit country market
  263.  music and bars of fitzroy and brunswick
  264.  myuna farm
  265.  nathalia and the barmah forest
  266.  national holden motor museum - echuca
  267.  national rhododendron gardens, olinda
  268.  national sports museum
  269.  nepean country club
  270.  north east country pub tours
  271.  north williamstown railway museum
  272.  ocean grove and barwon heads
  273.  old beechy rail trail
  274.  old geelong gaol
  275.  old melbourne gaol
  276.  old post office seymour
  277.  olivers hill - frankston
  278.  omeo
  279.  open garden scheme
  280.  organ pipes national park
  281.  organic discovery tours
  282.  otway estate - winery & brewery
  283.  outpost restaurant noojee
  284.  paddle boats at lakes entrance
  285.  peninsula hot springs
  286.  peppers moonah links
  287.  petrified forest bridgewater
  288.  phillip island
  289.  phillip island ride days
  290.  phillip island wildlife park
  291.  point addis
  292.  point cook homestead
  293.  port campbell national park
  294.  port fairy folk festival held annually in march
  295.  portland
  296.  portsea hotel
  297.  princess margaret rose cave
  298.  prospecting on the goldfields
  299.  puckapunyal army museum
  300.  pyrenees wineries
  301.  quambatook tractor pull
  302.  queenscliff
  303.  queenscliff - sorrento ferry
  304.  queenscliff music festival
  305.  raaf museum, point cook
  306.  ramsay st - the home of neighbours
  307.  raymond island ferry
  308.  red hill brewery
  309.  red hill cherry farm
  310.  red stag deer farm - eurobin
  311.  redgum statue river walk
  312.  rhyll fishing park
  313.  rip charters fishing trips
  314.  ripponlea estate, elsternwick
  315.  robinvale
  316.  rock climbing or abseiling at the grampians and mt arapiles
  317.  romantic vineyard, amherst
  318.  rose street artist market - fitzroy
  319.  rosedale
  320.  royal george hotel, kyneton
  321.  rusty nail restaurant, warracknabeal
  322.  rusty springs b&b - avenel
  323.  rutherglen and the muscat trail
  324.  sailing on port phillip bay
  325.  san remo pelican feeding
  326.  sand sculpting at frankston waterfront
  327.  sandy point
  328.  scienceworks and melbourne planetarium
  329.  scuba dive great ocean rd/shipwreck coast
  330.  sea bounty mussels, williamstown
  331.  sea kayaking
  332.  sea winds national park
  333.  seal watching cruises, phillip island
  334.  seppelt great western
  335.  shakespeare on the river festival stratford
  336.  shepparton festival
  337.  shizuka ryokan daylesford
  338.  silverwater resort
  339.  skiing in the alps
  340.  snowy river national park
  341.  south melbourne markets
  342.  spiegeltent
  343.  st andrews market & hotel
  344.  st kilda market
  345.  st kilda pier and foreshore
  346.  st leonards
  347.  starglen lodge, bonnie doon
  348.  state library
  349.  station pier port melbourne
  350.  stawell caravan park
  351.  stawell gift at easter
  352.  steavenson falls
  353.  stillwater at crittenden
  354.  strathbogie ranges
  355.  strezlecki’s drive from warragul to wonthaggi
  356.  studley park boathouse
  357.  summer in the high country
  358.  sun theatre
  359.  sunny ridge strawberry farm
  360.  sunnymeade garden, strathbogie
  361.  sunset at craigs hut
  362.  sunset park
  363.  surf coast
  364.  sweetwater creek reserve, frankston
  365.  swim with the dolphins in the bay
  366.  swing bridge sale
  367.  swiss italian festa in hepburn springs
  368.  Tahbilk Winery & Wetlands Reserve
  369.  talbot observatory
  370.  talking tram tour, bendigo
  371.  tarra festival -easter in yarram
  372.  tarrawarra museum of art
  373.  telstra dome
  374.  tesselaar tulip festival
  375.  the ada tree walk, powelltown
  376.  the arts centre sunday market
  377.  the bramble farm
  378.  the brewery and stefano’s restaurant.
  379.  the carousel, waterfront geelong
  380.  the convent gallery, daylesford
  381.  the crosscut saw - alpine national park
  382.  the enchanted maze garden
  383.  the eureka centre, ballarat
  384.  the great ocean walk
  385.  the hotel shamrock
  386.  the hut beachfront cafe phillip island
  387.  the mildura arts centre and rio vista museum
  388.  the national gallery of victoria
  389.  the nobbies centre
  390.  the overland train
  391.  the pantechnicon gallery, daylesford
  392.  the shrine of remembrance
  393.  the slow coach horse drawn dining carriage
  394.  the windsor hotel
  395.  theatre royal castlemaine
  396.  theatreworks, st kilda
  397.  thurra national park
  398.  tiger moth flight - torquay
  399.  toms cap winery
  400.  tongio camp
  401.  toorongo falls
  402.  tour the bellarine wine region
  403.  tour the geelong wine region
  404.  tour the high country brewery trail
  405.  tour the rutherglen wine regions
  406.  tour the wineries of the macedon ranges
  407.  tourist shuttle bus melbourne
  408.  tower hill reserve
  409.  tranquil hills
  410.  tuki trout farm
  411.  v8 supercars, phillip island
  412.  venus bay
  413.  victoria hotel - woodend
  414.  victorian goldfields railway
  415.  vietnam veterans museum phillip island
  416.  vietnamese restaurants of victoria street - melbourne
  417.  vinotherapy treatment at natskin dayspa
  418.  visit historic port albert
  419.  visit indigenous rock art site
  420.  visit melbourne style
  421.  visit the historic charming villages of maldon, clunes and creswick
  422.  visit the pink lake
  423.  walk from torquay to anglesea
  424.  walk the razorback from mt hotham to feathertop
  425.  wallaby creek olive grove
  426.  wangaratta jazz & blues festival
  427.  waratah time on the errinundra plateau
  428.  warburton
  429.  warrandyte
  430.  warratina lavender farm
  431.  warrnambool
  432.  warrnambool art gallery
  433.  warrnambool cup carnival
  434.  watch the sunset at portarlington
  435.  werribee park
  436.  werribee zoo
  437.  whale watching in warrnambool
  438.  whittlesea show
  439.  wild oak cooking school
  440.  william ricketts sanctuary
  441.  wine bank on view
  442.  wine tour of victoria’s high country
  443.  wirramurra house - murray river
  444.  wombat state forest
  445.  wonthaggi coal mines
  446.  woodend winter arts festival
  447.  yarra river cruise city to williamstown
  448.  yarra valley
  449.  yarra valley regional farmers markets
  450.  yarrawonga
  451.  you yangs
  452.  young & jackson’s
  453.  ‘extreme seals’ adventure cruise

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