TASMANIA

Australia offers you many unique sights and curious, delightful and awe inspiring travelling experiences. Choose where you will visit taking into account a comfortable travelling pace for you and what particularly excites your interest. This campervan holiday is a wonderful opportunity to unwind and savour what is on offer: natural beauty, great food and wine and the thrill of much exploring and adventuring. The following are possible locations you may wish to explore in Tasmania. Visiting them all may take a longer time than you have available, so choose a broad area of particular interest to you and focus your attention there.

Hobart
Hobart has all the architecture and ambience of an old colonial city while also being a pocket sized modern metropolis.Architectually there are Quaint settlers cottages next to lofty colonial mansions. Many old colonial buildings, such as the19th century sandstone warehouses in the wharf area, now house cafes, artist’s studios and restaurants. Situated on the Derwent river, many great harbour cruises are available so you can see Hobart from the water. Or you can take a trip to the top of Mount Wellington to see the intricate pattern of islands and estuaries that reach out to the sea beyond the city. The second oldest city in Australia, Hobart is a very beautiful, intriguing and manageable city to explore and enjoy.

Port Arthur
Port Arthur is a small town 60 km south of Hobart. From 1833 to the 1850’s it was the destination for the most hardened British and Irish criminals and was often the final place of internment for convicts who had re offended in other penal settlements in Australia. Being sent to Port Arthur was considered a grave punishment indeed and the living conditions and treatment of prisoners was very harsh. Today there is an open air museum consisting of those colonial buildings that still survive.

Freycinet National Park

St Helens

Launceston

Cradle Mountain
Cradle Mountain forms the northern end of the wild Cradle Mt – Lake St Clair National Park, part of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area. The jagged contours of Cradle Mountain epitomise the feel of the wild landscape. There are ancient rainforest and alpine heathlands, buttongrass and stands of colourful deciduous beech which provide a range of environments to explore. As well there is a wealth of wildlife to be seen. There is a very popular Cradle Mountain bushwalking track which traverses the Cradle Mountain reserve, but walkers need to be fit, well equipped, should always travel in a group and never in the depths of winter when there is likely to be snow.

Strahan

Mount Field