Sydney n Melbourne - Australia Part 3

Hari Ke Empat (22 Okt 2013)

Salam...

Tepat jam 7.50 pg kami bergerak ke Sydney Airport. Selamat tinggal Sydney. Jam 10.20 pagi (Lewat 20 minit) kami bergerak ke Melbourne dgn Jet Star Airways. Tiada masalah dgn urusan Check in. 

View Sydney International Airport

Tiba di Melbourne Airport jam 11.45 pg. Kami disambut oleh wakil agent Australia. Wakil agen mengatakan kami tak sempat ke Victoria market kerana harus bergerak ke Sovereign Hill segera kerana lunch dah ditempah jam 1.00 ptg. TL berbincang dgn peserta. Peserta tak puas hati...mcm mcm kata ditelan TL. Akhirnya berbincang dgn Captain Coach (Mr Ping). CC kata besok tak boleh pergi VM kerana tutup.... Pulak dah.... Akhirnya TL membuat pangilan telefon ke Sovereign Hill dan deal dgn restoren yg kami akan makan tengahari jam 4.00 ptg. Alhamdulillah restoren tu setuju. Kemudian peserta di bawa ke Victoria Market dan diberikan masa hanya 50 minit sahaja. Walaupun masih tak puas hati, peserta akur juga, sekurang-kurangnya dapat pergi Victoria Market. Terima kasih pada TL kami yang sanggup berhadapan dan menyelesaikan masalah kami.

View Bangku tempat rehat di luar VM

Info The Queen Victoria Market 

Is a major landmark in Melbourne, Australia, and at around seven hectares (17 acres) is the largest open air market in the Southern Hemisphere. The Market is significant to Melbourne's culture and heritage and has been listed on the Victorian Heritage Register. The Market is named after Queen Victoria who ruled the British Empire, from 1837 to 1901.

The Queen Victoria Market is the only surviving 19th century market in the Melbourne central business district. There were once three major markets in the Melbourne CBD, but two of them, the Eastern Market and Western Market, both opened before the Queen Victoria, closed in the 1960s. It also forms part of an important collection of surviving Victorian markets which includes the inner suburban Prahran Market and South Melbourne Market.

Today, the Market is a major Melbourne tourist destination, offering a variety of fruit and vegetables, meat, poultry and seafood, gourmet and deli foods as well as specialty delicacies. It also has a large non-food related market, selling a diverse range of clothing, shoes, jewellery and handmade art and crafts.

The market is also known for the hot doughnut van which has operated for over half a century and become part of local tradition, being known for its jam donuts.

The Market is open every day of the week except Mondays and Wednesdays. On Wednesday evenings in the summer months, there is a night market which offers dining, bars, live entertainment and a variety of other stalls.

View Victoria Market...Apapun masing-masing tak melepaskan peluang shopping...

Jam 1.30 ptg kami bergerak ke Sovereign Hill. Jam 3.30 kami sampai dan terus ke restoren utk makan tengahari.  Ada guide yg membawa kami ke terowong bawah tanah. 
  

View Pintu masuk. Tiketnya agak mahal...

Info Sovereign Hill 

Is an open air museum in Golden Point, a suburb of Ballarat,Victoria, Australia. Sovereign Hill depicts Ballarat's first ten years after the discovery of gold there in 1851. It was officially opened on 29 November 1970 and has become a nationally acclaimed tourist attraction. It is one of Victoria's most popular attractions and Ballarat's most famous.

Set in the Australian 1850s, the complex is located on a 25-hectare site that is linked to the richest alluvial gold rush in the world. The site comprises over 60 historically recreated buildings, with costumed staff and volunteers, who are able to answer questions and will pose for photos. The recreation is completed with antiques, artwork, books and papers, machinery, livestock and animals, carriages, and devices all appropriate to the era.

Sovereign Hill is located on the site of one of Ballarat's major gold diggings. The discovery on August 21, 1851 by James Dunlop and James Reagan that sparked the Ballarat Gold Rush was at the base of the hill a couple of hundred metres from Sovereign Hill park and the "Welcome" nugget—found by a group of Cornish miners in 1858, and being the second largest gold nugget in the world—was also found in Ballarat in the Red Hill mine which is recreated in Sovereign Hill. The Welcome Nugget weighed 69 kg,(2,200 ounces) and contained 99% pure gold, valued at about 10,500 pounds when found, and worth over US$3 million in gold now, or far more as a specimen.

The idea of Sovereign Hill was floated in Ballarat in the 1960s, as a way to preserve historic buildings, and to recreate the gold diggings that made the city. The complex was officially opened to the public on Sunday 29 November 1970

Main street is a loose reconstruction of Main Street, Ballarat East which was once the settlement's main street, consisting of timber buildings. It was consumed in a large fire during the 1860s and a more substantial town centre planned around Sturt and Lydiard Street in Ballarat West.

View Nii agaknya lombongnya....

View Main road yg ada... nii satu satunya...

View Bank...

View Kami akan masuk bawah tanahnya...

View Turun bawah naik train.. kemudian jalan kaki.. Oiii gelapnya.....

View Bilik rehat pekerja.. bawah tanah

View Wah.. emas! emas!... pakcik kayo...

View Tu dia.. Train buruk..nak masuk bawah tanah...

View termenung.. mana emas aku...

Jam 5.30 ptg kami bergerak ke hotel utk urusan cheak in di Ibis Styles Victoria Hotel. Ada peserta merunggut kerana kami tak solat hari nii.

  

Jam 7.30 mlm semua peserta dah dapat kunci masing-masing. TL ingatkan peserta besok  bertolak ke Philip Island jam 10.00 pg. Peraturan di Australia Driver bas tidak boleh drive lebih 12 jam..
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