Best Melbourne Tours In Australia

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Best Melbourne Tours in Australia

Finding Melbourne Tours offers great days out and lots to see and is a great way to get the most from your trip to Australia. There are many reasons why it is a great country to tour and many reasons why so many people seek out Melbourne tours when they head to Victoria. Here we will look at some of what Melbourne has to offer and why you practically need a tour in order to get around and see it all in a short amount of time.

Melbourne is the capital of Victoria and also the most populous city there (meaning the most densely populated). In fact it is the second most populous city in all of Australia and has a population of roughly four million in the greater geographical region.

The city is located on a large bay called 'Port Phillip' and the center of the city is at the estuary of the Yarra River. The city then extends from the center along both the Eastern and Western shores of the bay and expands further into the hinterland. By night, the millions of city lights and the reflections cast in the water make for spectacular views making Melbourne by night a great sight that ...
... everyone should see at some point or other.

During Melbourne tours you are also likely to learn a little about the history of this great city. Founded in 1935 by settlers from Van Diemen's Land, it was declared a city by Queen Victoria in 1847. It was during the Victorian gold rush in the 1850s that it was then turned into one of the world's most wealthiest cities and one of the largest. It also served as a temporary home for the government of Australia from 1901 to 1927.

The size, wealth and huge population of Melbourne all mean that it has much to offer by way of shopping, sights, education, nightlife and food and it is a very vibrant and exciting city by day or by night. It was rated one of the top three most 'livable' cities by the Economist Group's Intelligence Unit, and one of the 10 Global University Cities by RMIT's 'Global University Cities Index'.

There are many sights and attractions in Melbourne, many of which you would see on a Melbourne tour. These include the Chinatown, which like those in many cities is a town within a city that enables you to enjoy great Chinese shopping and food as well as well as a great change of scenery; a wealth of museums and a great aquarium; markets; St Paul's Cathedral which is a great large Cathedral that makes a perfect photo opportunity and is as impressive from inside as out; ANZ gothic bank which is a great gothic-revival building for a glance into the imposing past of Melbourne; the bay itself; the Victorian Arts Center; the Old Melbourne Gaol, Windsor Hotel and much more. You can't really appreciate the city of Melbourne until you've been there though, so to learn more and experience it for yourself in full, book yourself in to one of the tours around the city.

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