Melbourne & Victoria travel guide
This city 'down under' has a warm personality, with cobbled streets, trams, a beautiful riverside and the beach. The nightlife here is hidden, and you'll find yourself in some of the hippest bars just by chatting to the locals and exploring the Old Town. To help you on your journey the ETG team have compiled a list of the top 6 city districts to hangout.
Top 6 Melbourne Hippest Spots
1. Melbourne & Victoria - The Murray River & Around (PDF Chapter) Lonely Planet
The mighty Murray is Australia’s longest and most important inland waterway and arrayed along its shores are some of Victoria’s most captivating towns. It’s a stirring place of wineries and orchards, bush camping, balmy weather and river-red-gum forests. History looms large in towns such as Echuca and Glenrowan, food and wine dominate proceedings around Rutherglen and Mildura, and national parks enclose soulful desert expanse in the far west.
2. Melbourne & Victoria - The High Country (PDF Chapter) Lonely Planet
With its enticing mix of history, adventure and culinary temptations, Victoria’s High Country is a wonderful place to spend some time. It includes Victoria’s Alps – a mountain playground attracting skiers and snowboarders in winter and bushwalkers and mountain bikers in summer.
3. Melbourne & Victoria - Gippsland & Wilsons Promontory (PDF Chapter) Lonely Planet
The Great Ocean Road may get the crowds, but Gippsland hides all the secrets. Gippsland is one region where it pays to avoid the cities – the towns along the Princes Hwy are barely worth a traveller’s glance.
4. Melbourne & Victoria - Mornington Peninsula & Phillip Island (PDF Chapter) Lonely Planet
At the tip of the Mornington Peninsula, a world of rugged ocean surf beaches, sublime links golf courses and coastal bushwalks opens up. The peninsula’s interior is a wine- and food-lover’s paradise, with more than 50 cellar doors and some of Victoria’s finest winery restaurants.
5. Melbourne & Victoria - Goldfields & The Grampians (PDF Chapter) Lonely Planet
History, nature and culture combine spectacularly in Victoria’s regional heart: in the grand regional cities of Bendigo and Ballarat, and the charming towns of Castlemaine, Kyneton and Maldon. This is a fantastic region for touring, with a range of contrasting landscapes, from pretty countryside and green forests, red earth and granite country, to farmland, orchards and wineries.
6. Melbourne & Victoria - Great Ocean Road & Bellarine Peninsula (PDF Chapter) Lonely Planet
The Great Ocean Road is one of Australia’s most famous road-touring routes. It takes travellers past world-class surfing breaks, through pockets of rainforest and calm seaside towns, and under koala-filled tree canopies.
Imagine a mini-version of Machu Picchu but without the tourists, a ballroom dance with a sexy Afro-Cuban twist and a mountain as fickle and majestic as Kilimanjaro – you’ll find all this and more on Mexico’s central Gulf coast, where the runaway juggernaut called ‘global homogenization’ gets stopped in it tracks.
7. Mexico City - Lonely Planet: Mexico (Chapter)
Mexico City is cleaning up its act. Revamped public spaces are springing back to life, the culinary scene is exploding and a cultural renaissance is blooming. A stroll through the buzzing downtown area reveals the city’s storied history, from pre-Hispanic underpinnings to an unabashed contemporary edge.
8. Western Central Highlands - Mexico (PDF Chapter) Lonely Planet
Brimming with exquisite colonial architecture, delicious food, butterfly orgies, lonely indigenous pueblos, bustling cities and volcanic calderas, Mexico’s western central highlands are a true wonderland.
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