Private walking tours in Melbourne
Feb 16th, 2009, 11:09 AM
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Private walking tours in Melbourne
I'm hoping someone can recommend a private guide for walking tours in Melbourne. I'm communicating with this person, but getting no responses:
www.walkingmelbournetours.com
Does anyone know of others that they have tried?
www.walkingmelbournetours.com
Does anyone know of others that they have tried?
Feb 16th, 2009, 12:32 PM
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Try this one http://www.melbourne.com.au/walking-tours-melbourne.htm
I live in Melbourne so have no need for walking tours, but the description of this laneway tour is something I am sure you would enjoy. Otherwise Melbourne is easy to navigate on foot with a good map. Degraves St. The Block Arcade Collins St. Lygon St. Queen Vic. Markets, Hardware Lane, Bank Place are all musts. The free brown City Circle tram is also a great way to explore the city. Hop on and off at your liesure and walk to the areas annouced on the tram.
I live in Melbourne so have no need for walking tours, but the description of this laneway tour is something I am sure you would enjoy. Otherwise Melbourne is easy to navigate on foot with a good map. Degraves St. The Block Arcade Collins St. Lygon St. Queen Vic. Markets, Hardware Lane, Bank Place are all musts. The free brown City Circle tram is also a great way to explore the city. Hop on and off at your liesure and walk to the areas annouced on the tram.
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Any chocolate tour must include Ko Ko Black at 52 Collins St. and on any walking tour The Journal at 253 Flinders Lane (the whole of Flinders Lane is good) is excellent for a quick bite!
http://www.kokoblack.com/
http://www.kokoblack.com/
Feb 16th, 2009, 01:42 PM
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The very first thing I'd do in Melbourne is jump on a free City Circle Tram - http://www.yarratrams.com.au/desktop...aspx/tabid-99/
Do at least one loop and then hop of at Flinders and Swanston Street intersection where the Creamy coloured Railway Station entrance with all the clocks is - famous meeting point - "meet me under the clocks"
Opposite the clocks going clockwise to be logical you have Young and Jacksons, famous for old 6pm closing times line them up swill house and of course Cloe who'll greet you on the stairs landing if you enter from Swanston Street [now kind of a mall]
For those who need to confess their sins after Y&J escapades there's St. Pauls on other corner and then next corner at four thirty you could say is Federation Square and some stairs there take you down to the Visitor Information Centre for maps and brochures and stuff.
Armed with a map and the free trams you could cover the whole CBD easily enough and take off on south east corner into the Treasurey and Fitzroy Gardens, past the MCG and Tennis Centre and over the Yarra to the global class [if not up there with classiest on the planet] botanical gardens and surrounding gardens/parkland that contains the Sydney Myer Music Bowl - great shady walk if the day is a bit warm.
Do at least one loop and then hop of at Flinders and Swanston Street intersection where the Creamy coloured Railway Station entrance with all the clocks is - famous meeting point - "meet me under the clocks"
Opposite the clocks going clockwise to be logical you have Young and Jacksons, famous for old 6pm closing times line them up swill house and of course Cloe who'll greet you on the stairs landing if you enter from Swanston Street [now kind of a mall]
For those who need to confess their sins after Y&J escapades there's St. Pauls on other corner and then next corner at four thirty you could say is Federation Square and some stairs there take you down to the Visitor Information Centre for maps and brochures and stuff.
Armed with a map and the free trams you could cover the whole CBD easily enough and take off on south east corner into the Treasurey and Fitzroy Gardens, past the MCG and Tennis Centre and over the Yarra to the global class [if not up there with classiest on the planet] botanical gardens and surrounding gardens/parkland that contains the Sydney Myer Music Bowl - great shady walk if the day is a bit warm.
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Also look at www.hiddensecretstours.com which does quirkier tours of places / things most tourists would never see or know about .
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