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the ocean’s edge. Hobart has a fascinating around the charming and well-maintained
blend of Aboriginal, colonial, and maritime grounds before returning to our hotel.This
history that includes a wealth of Georgian evening is at leisure with dinner on your own.
architecture dating from its colonial period in Breakfast
the 1830s.
After the walking tour, we’ll visit Bonorong
Day 6 Hobart • Transfer to Cradle
Wildlife Sanctuary, Tasmania’s most popular
Mountain • Evening “Spotlighting” Tour
wildlife park and a haven for injured and
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Tasmanian Bettong. and damnation mark its downtown. We’ll
enjoy an included lunch as we travel today.
Then we’ll stop by the historic town of
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Lunch is included today, after which you’ll a “spotlighting” tour where we’ll enjoy a
have the afternoon free in Hobart. Dinner will nature drive, spotting nocturnal animals like
be on your own. wombats and wallabies in the wild.
Breakfast, Lunch Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 5 Hobart • Optional Port Arthur tour Day 7 Cradle Mountain National Park •
Overland to Launceston
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Mountain National Park, part of Tasmania’s
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tour of Port Arthur, one of Australia’s most Tasmania’s best-known national park, and
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colony for Australia between 1830 and 1877 spectacular natural vistas—high mountains
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here; in fact, a whole network of prisons once unusual wild moorlands that stretch for miles
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penal colony. We’ll then take a guided walking of the park.
tour that will bring us to some of the restored
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prison system, followed by a one-hour harbor aTL >SPʯPWO 7ZNL_PO YPL] 8Z`Y_ =ZWLYO
cruise. We’ll also have some free time to stroll >SPʯPWO T^ VYZbY L^ _SP ɭ?ZbY ZQ 8`]LW^ɮ
for the spectacular paintings that the town’s
history and landscape inspire.
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