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The Yarra Valley, Victoria

December 2021 5 mins read

Australia, Blog, Clusters, Recent History, Victoria

Explore the sights and history of the Yarra Valley, with its rich epicurean traditions, world class wineries, and serene natural landscapes, the Yarra Valley is one of Victoria's most popular highlights. Odyssey offers small group tours for mature and senior travellers, couples, and solo travelers to Australia and Victoria.

Port Fairy, Victoria

June 2021 7 mins read

Australia, Blog, Clusters, Victoria

Port Fairy, Victoria, 3 hours from Melbourne. A historic colonial town on the coast close to the Budj Bim eel traps. Explore and learn on small group tour for mature and senior couples and solo travellers of outback Australia.

Beechworth, Victoria

April 2021 8 mins read

Australia, Blog, Clusters, Recent History, Victoria

Articles about Victoria and recent history to senior couples and solo travellers exploring Australia on a small group tour.   This article features Beechworth a historic gold rush town in regional Victoria.

Budj Bim Eel Traps, Victoria

March 2021 10 mins read

Aboriginal History, Australia, Blog, Clusters, Victoria

Article supporting small group tours for senior couples and solo travellers of significant Aboriginal farming activity and aquaculture. A UNESCO world heritage site complementary to Mungo man and lady and more.  The eels farmed were then a trading asset taken along songlines (trading routes.) forming part of kinship rituals.

Ancient Aboriginal trade routes of Australia

Ochre Cliffs near Lyndhurst Outback South Australia
February 2021 16 mins read

Aboriginal History, Archaeology, Australia, Blog, Highlights, Northern Territory, Victoria

Ancient Aboriginal trade routes of Australia Trade was a central part of life for Aboriginal people prior to the British settlement of Australia. Trading routes criss-crossed the nation, dispersing goods, information, technologies and culture thousands…

Budj Bim Cultural Landscape, Victoria

Lake Surprise, Budj Bim National Park
January 2021 5 mins read

Aboriginal History, Australia, Clusters, Victoria

Article for escorted small group tour about this program visiting UNESCO World Heritage sites in Victoria, South Australia & NSW. Exploring and learn about Budj Bim cultural landscape for mature and senior travellers .

The Murray River, Australia

Murray river at Echuca
November 2020 11 mins read

Australia, Clusters, Natural History, New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria

The Murray river, a powerhouse in so much of the Eastern side of Australia river system. Learn about its contribution to Aboriginal and colonial history. Study and appreciate more on a escorted small group tour into the Australian outback with mature and senior travellers couples or solo travellers each year.

The Australian Alps Walking Track

Snowy mountains hut
July 2020 5 mins read

Australia, Clusters, Highlights, Hiking & Walking, New South Wales, Victoria

Escorted small group tours for seniors and mature couples or solo travellers seeking to learn and participate in journeys to learn and see the history, culture and landscapes of Australia. 

Arcades of Melbourne, Victoria

Royal Arcade
June 2020 7 mins read

Architecture, Australia, Clusters, Highlights, Victoria

Learn about the Melbourne arcades from the bygone era of Victorian wealth, fashioned after the arcades of Paris. This small group tour to Melbourne for mature and senior travellers.

Designing Melbourne, Victoria

Flinders Street Station
June 2020 9 mins read

Australia, Clusters, Gardens, Highlights, Victoria

The grid layout of  central Melbourne did not just happen.... Read and learn more and consider joining a small group package tour for mature and senior travellers to this city for couples or singles. Spend a week exploring Melbourne it's arcades and Victorian architecture created on the back of the wealth from the gold rush.

Landscape of Southern Australia from Mallee and Mulga.

rural farm with crops in paddock in Mallee
June 2020 8 mins read

Australia, Clusters, Natural History, South Australia

Escorted small group tours for mature and senior travellers in Western Australia, Victoria, South Australia & NSW drive through former Mallee country. Article explains the iconic beginnings of Mallee and Mulga in the arid landscapes.  

Understanding Aboriginal aquaculture

Lake Surprise in Budj Bim National Park.
June 2020 11 mins read

Aboriginal History, Australia, Blog, New South Wales, Victoria

Aboriginal communities had the ability to harvest fish some 20,000+ years ago. Creating major centres of trade and cultural exchange, and supported permanent communities. Discover and learn more on a escorted small group package tour to Victoria, South Australia & Queensland for mature and senior travellers, couples and solo travellers interested in learning.

Aboriginal land use in the Mallee

Sand storm in remote Australian agricultural farm field. Climate change or global warming concept for drought as a natural disaster.
June 2020 17 mins read

Aboriginal History, Archaeology, Australia, Blog, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

Learning about the Mallee for a escorted small group tour of South Australia and Western Australia for mature and senior travellers. Understand the Mallee & Wildflowers relationship and the indigenous community land use.

Mildura, Victoria

June 2020 8 mins read

Australia, Clusters, Recent History, Victoria

Mildura has a unusual feel when you reach the town, wide boulevards feel unusual for Australian rural towns. This article begins to explain the unusual story about this town. Mildura is part of an Odyssey Traveller small group tour for mature and senior travellers, couples and singles who are interested in the history of a place. This is our collection of tours inAustralia. 

Benalla, Victoria

Benalla
May 2020 6 mins read

Australia, Clusters, Recent History, Victoria

Learn about Benalla, part of a collection of articles about Victoria. You can learn more on a small group package tour for mature and senior travelers, couples or singles interested in the history of Victoria and Melbourne. Since 1983 we have been offering educational style touring to seniors.

Victorian architecture of central Melbourne, Australia

Royal Exhibition Building
May 2020 7 mins read

Australia, Clusters, Highlights, Victoria

Melbourne is one of our two, week long city explorer programs. The other program being Adelaide. These are small group tours for mature and senior travellers, couples and singles interested in Colonial history of the two centuries. They form part of a collection of Australian learning tours.

Castlemaine, Victoria

Castlemaine Post Office
May 2020 5 mins read

Australia, Clusters, Recent History, Victoria

Castlemaine is part of our Victoria small group package tour into the region following the gold rush. Structured as a small group tour for mature and senior travellers, couples and singles. This program is part of a collection of tours of Australia focussed on History, wildlife and landscape.

Bendigo, Victoria

Alexandra Fountain
May 2020 7 mins read

Australia, Clusters, Recent History, Victoria

Bendigo is part of a collection of regional Victorian centres explored on this regional tour of Victoria. Bendigo's wealth was created by gold. This small group tour for mature and senior travellers explores this theme and the houses built, many now National trust properties from this period. This article is one of many prepared by Odyssey about Australia.

Echuca and Murray-Darling Trade, Victoria

Echuca paddle-steamer
May 2020 5 mins read

Australia, Clusters, Highlights, Victoria

The wool trade along the Murray was vital to British-Australia. Echuca was a major port for paddle steers. Learn and explore more on a Odyssey Traveller small  group package tour of Victoria and the goldfields for mature and senior travellers, couples or singles with a curiosity. Understand the relationship of the Murray river  to Echuca to Adelaide and Mildura.

Ballarat, Victoria

Eureka Stockade
May 2020 7 mins read

Australia, Clusters, Recent History, Victoria

Ballarat is part of a series of regional towns explored and learnt about on a small group tour for mature and senior travelers into regional Victoria. The program examines the history of the gold rush and the wealth created that enabled the grand houses to her built that we visit. You can read all of the Australia articles published.

The Burke and Wills Expedition, 1860-61

May 2020 7 mins read

Australia, Clusters, History, New South Wales, Queensland, Recent History, Victoria

Learn  on a small group tour of central Australia for active mature or senior travellers from Broken hill about Burke and Wills ambitious expedition. Suitable for mature aged couples or solo travellers.

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