This famous wine and food area, just a short hop by helicopter from Melbourne offers spectacular scenery and wonderful opportunities to spend a relaxing day in the company of friends or family while indulging the senses. The Yarra Valley now has well over 50 vineyards, and the region is as serious about food as it is about wine, so expect the best! You will be taken there in style, shown all th ...
Never flown by helicopter before? If this is something you've always wanted to experience, then look no further. The Scenic Melbourne Helicopter Joy Flight departs every Sunday from Caribbean Gardens in the Eastern Suburbs. If you have never experienced the thrill of a helicopter joy flight, a brief trip around the local area is an amazing introduction - you may even be able to see your home. ...
Ridge Rd, Mount Dandenong, Victoria 3767, Australia
The Mount Dandenong Arboretum extends over 16 hectares and contains a collection of maturing deciduous trees and conifers from around the world. 'Arboretum' is a Latin word meaning a place for trees and an Arboretum can simply be called a 'tree museum'.
Things to do
- Enjoy a relaxing sensory experience of walking under mature tree canopies, scrunching on aromatic pine needles and looking upw ...
26 Observatory Rd, Mount Dandenong, Victoria 3767, Australia
Get some perspective and escape the noise and pressures of the concrete jungle. Less than an hour (from the Melbourne CBD) you can be SkyHigh - on the uppermost reach of the Dandenong Ranges, amid cool fern glades and lush towering (native) forest, looking at the big picture, from the Mornington Peninsula across the majestic sweep of Port Phillip Bay, surrounded by Melbourne's grow ...
Mount Dandenong Tourist Rd, Mount Dandenong, Victoria 3767, Australia
Situated in the Dandenongs in a ferny glade, William Ricketts Sanctuary is a place of beauty and tranquility, due both to the natural setting and the mystical sculptures half hidden among ferns along the pathways. It is a place for quiet reflection and for contemplation of the essence of the vision of William Ricketts. Many travel across the world to visit this place time and time again.
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