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Melbourne
As Victoria's Capital City, Melbourne offers all of the components of a comprehensive 'Big City Experience' for regional students of any age.
While Melbourne is a fantastic 'Big City' destination, it also works perfectly as a stop-over for schools travelling to Canberra from the west, south or even from the Northern Territory!
The Wonders of Ancient Mesopotamia is the next exhibition coming to the Melbourne Museum. Opening from 4 May to 7 October, 2012 this is the perfect opportunity to take your senior history students to Melbourne to see stunning artefacts from one of the world's great ancient civilisations. The Wonders of Ancient Mesopotamia will explore an era of extraordinary invention and innovation, the impact of which is still shaping our lives thousands of years later.
The exhibition will feature over 170 artefacts from the world famous Middle East collection of The British Museum including massive carved stone reliefs depicting scenes of battles and hunting, to stunning gold jewellery and including objects and mutimedia presentations focusing on three of the great centres of ancient civilisation - Sumer, Assyria and Babylon. Themes in the exhibition include palaces and royal power, religious beliefs and rituals, burial practices and royal tombs, and the myths and legends that surround ancient Mesopotamia.
Contact us today to take your senior history classes to Melbourne for the Wonders of Ancient Mesopotamia exhibition. We have 2 and 3 day itineraries available for groups flying to/from Melbourne and 3 day itineraries available for return coach travel.
Explore the city or extend your itinerary to include surrounding regions each with unique experiences waiting to be discovered by you and your students!
Melbourne City Experience
Students of any age will enjoy a 'Big City Experience'. Choose from a selection of museums and galleries, the Scienceworks Planetarium and shows, visit Seeing Eye Dogs Australia, Cook's Cottage, Eureka Skydeck, Imax and the Aquarium. Enjoy a guided tour of the MCG. Visit the zoo, take a tram ride, explore the Queen Victorian Markets and much more!
Great inner city accommodation options are available.
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Great Ocean Road
Explore this amazing coastline in Port Campbell National Park including the Apostles, Loch Ard Gorge, and the remnants of the London Bridge rock formation. Enjoy the vistas from boardwalks and viewing platforms.
Visit the Wool Museum and the Ford Car Museum at Geelong.
Visit Bells Beach - home of Australian surfing culture and Surfworld at Torquay! Explore little seaside towns such as Lorne and Apollo Bay. Walk above the treetops at the Otway Fly and much more.
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Phillip Island
Travel via the Mornington Peninsula to Phillip Island, find your way through a maze, pick your own strawberries, take the chairlift for fantastic views to Cape Otway, see the famous 'Beach Boxes' at Mornington.
On Phillip Island, see the Penguin Parade after dark, the famous Phillip Island Raceway, feed the pelicans, visit the koala conservation centre, see the blowhole, seal colonies and much more.
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Sovereign Hill
Explore Australia's goldrush history including the Eureka Stockade.
With the aid of facilitated programs at the award winning recreated gold diggings your students will gain an understanding of this period in Australia's history.