Melbourne - population 3.5 million.
 Walking Melbourne Tours, Victoria, Australia

 A personally guided walking tour around the streets of Melbourne City, Australia

Tour Melbourne, Victoria, Australia a city built on gold!


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CUSTOM walking TourS FOR GROUPS

ANYWHERE in Melbourne CBD

Walking Melbourne Tour, looking at historic Melbourne CBD.

CUSTOM TOURS for Goups can be arranged to suite your interests, including timing to fit in with your needs.

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Discounted rate applies for Group Bookings of Custom Tours, including Corporate Team Building and Team Bonding for employees, School student groups, even just groups of friends that want to see more of Melbourne and experience our city with a professional tour guide. 

CUSTOM WALKING TOURS FOR GROUPS of 4+  Discount Applies

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Discover Melbourne Australia with a friendly local on an entertaining walking tour!

Melbourne - population 3.5 million.
Motto - we gather strength as we grow.
M
elbourne was briefly named Batmania after its founder. Other proposed names included Bearbrass, Bareport, Bareheep, Barehurp and Bareburp.
In 1837, the town was officially granted a seal of approval and in 1851, the Colony of Victoria was formed. The Colony was named Victoria after reigning English Monarch, Queen Victoria and the main town Melbourne in honour of Lord Melbourne, the Queen's most dedicated Prime Minister.
Melbourne's first census in 1836, showed a population of just 145 men, 35 women. With a grid CBD plan, Melbourne was one of Australia's first planned cities laid out by colonial surveyor Robert Hoddle in the 1830s.
Melbourne architects have embraced the wide streets, grand gardens and prominent street corners. Melbourne is the youngest of all the world cities. It grew from a tiny, speculative, pastoral outpost in the 1850s, into a world class city within a mere thirty years, reaching around a million people by the turn of the century. Much of the phenomonal growth was due to the Gold Rush, one of the biggest in world history, which brought an influx of migrants, bringing instant wealth and prosperity to the city.
"Marvellous Melbourne" boasted a city to rival those of Europe and North America.The city hosted the 1880 World Fair in the Royal Exhibition Building which hosted the first Parliament and still stands in magnificent Carlton Gardens.
The city was, until Canberra was built in the late 1920s, from 1901, the Federal Capital of Australia. Although Sydney grew larger, Melbourne remains the financial, sporting and cultural capital of the nation.
Melbourne was founded on the mouth of the Yarra River in 1835, after an abortive bid in 1803 to establish settlement inside Port Phillip heads. The Port Phillip district gained independence from New South Wales in 1850. Melbourne is the 'other great city of Australia': it is Boston to Sydney's New York. It lacks the pace of Sydney but makes up for this in spaciousness and a peaceful opulence that offers a comfortable way of life.
The site of Melbourne was 'purchased' from local aborigines for blankets, flour and other items by an oppurtunist who famously declared "This will be the place for a village" The Ballarat and Bendigo gold strikes of 1851 turned the village into a city, quadrupling its population in less than a year. The gold paid for churches, noble institutions and fine buildings which were admired by many early visitors, including novelist Anthony Trollope and Mark Twain. Melbourne has long vied with Sydney for the right to be called Australia's premiere city. Sydney may be older but Melbourne can justly claim to be Australia's intellectual capital : its schools and universities the most exclusive : its politicians and trade union leaders the most powerful. Most Australian Prime Ministers were based here.
Laid out on flat ground by a military man, Melbourne is a parade ground of immaculate parks and broad avenues commanded by imperious Victorian buildings. It is Australia's most British city, helped by an unpredictable climate, though there is nothing British about the dreaded 'northerly' a scorching wind that rushes down from the interior.

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You will be introduced to Melbourne, recently voted 'the worlds most liveable city'

victorian Parliament

bank opulence

 bridge on the yarra

Historic gas lamps

explore arcades

 
Personalised bus tours from Melbourne, Victoria to the Great Ocean Road, Phillip Island Penguins, Healesville Sanctuary, Yarra Vally Wineries and more.

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