Rialto Towers

Melbourne City in a Day

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August 10th 2006
Like Alice Springs (see The Alice Springs Express Tour), sadly, time was pressed, so it was another lightening city-in-a-day tour for us. In the morning we took the free tourist tram, which loops round the Central Business District. The only problem was this was that people used it as a free hop-on, hop-off service so it was often quite full and we couldn’t see an awful lot. Once we had been r ... read more

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Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more