DAY 1
LOS ANGELES/MELBOURNE
Depart Los Angeles for Melbourne on Qantas 747
DAY 2
EN ROUTE
Lose one day in traveling over the international date line.
DAY 3
MELBOURNE/YARRA RIVER
You will be met by our representative and transferred to your hotel in downtown
Melbourne by private car; stay overlooking the Yarra River, in a trendy South
Yarra boutique property or in the city center at an historic hotel built in 1883
and faithfully restored. After a rest, enjoy a cruise on the Yarra River
and a stroll along the river at Southgate with its myriad activities and
restaurants. Take a taxi or a horse and carriage back to your hotel.
Tonight, an early dinner on a tramcar with transfers back to the hotel.
DAY 4
CITY SIGHTS/CITY DINING
Discover the highlights of Melbourne, the garden city, and its varied
cuisine. See the city's highlights and continue to Carlton with its
magnificent collection of terrace houses and iron lace verandas, as well as
small restaurants and coffee shops. Visit the colorful Victoria Market and
Captain Cook's Cottage in the beautiful Fitzroy Gardens. The afternoon is
at leisure to explore more of this fascinating city.
DAY 5
YARRA VALLEY/CHATEAU YERING
The Yarra Valley was established as a wine growing area in the latter part of
the 19th century and is currently a premium wine growing district. With a
cool climate and soils suited to the production of dry red wine, and exciting
chardonnays and pinot noirs. Several small wineries are St. Hubert's, Coldstream
Hills, Yarra Yering, Yeringberg and Seville Estate. Visit a few of the
wineries and vineyards in the Yarra Valley with your private tour guide, e.g.
Domaine Chandon (sparkling wines), de Bortoli and Yarra Yering. Lunch at
one of the wineries, selecting perhaps an Aussie or northern Italian
cuisine. Accommodation tonight at a deluxe boutique hotel. Dinner
tonight in the hotel restaurant.
DAY 6
HEALESVILLE SANCTUARY
More wineries and perhaps hot air ballooning with breakfast at one of the
wineries. Continue to Healesville Sanctuary to meet some of our indigenous
animals, koalas, kangaroos, platypus and wallabies. This afternoon
continue to the Mornington Peninsula with its 30 wineries, just south of
Melbourne. Accommodation at a boutique manor house with fine dining and views of
the country side and garden.
DAY 7
MORNINGTON PENINSULA
Wine tasting in the morning at Karina Vineyard and Dromana Estate where you'll
also have lunch. A strong influence from the nearby sea, cool climate, some
fertile volcanic soils, producing chardonnay and pinot noir for the most part.
DAY 8
GREAT OCEAN ROAD
Drive to the end of the peninsula and take the ferry to Queenscliff for a tour
along the Great Ocean Road. Accommodation at a deluxe B&B or guest
house.
DAY 9
MELBOURNE
Return to Melbourne at your leisure.
DAY 10
MELBOURNE/LOS ANGELES
Transfer to the airport for your departure flight.
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