Victoria · Gateway hub
Melbourne and surrounds
Laneway coffee, street art and sport, with the Great Ocean Road and the Yarra Valley on the doorstep.
- Fly intoMEL — Melbourne Tullamarine
- Within reach11 iconic destinations
Melbourne and surrounds
Everything on this map is a day trip or a short hop from Melbourne — the way Tourism Australia itself organises the country, around a gateway city and the destinations it opens up.
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Day trips & destinations from here
The iconic destinations Tourism Australia groups under “Melbourne and surrounds”.
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Great Ocean Road 243 km of cliff-edge driving past the Twelve Apostles, built by returned soldiers as a war memorial. -
Twelve Apostles Limestone stacks standing off the Shipwreck Coast — best at sunrise, before the coaches. -
Grampians (Gariwerd) Sandstone ranges holding the richest concentration of Aboriginal rock art in southern Australia. -
Yarra Valley Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and hot-air balloons an hour from Melbourne. -
Mornington Peninsula Bathing boxes, cellar doors and hot springs on Melbourne's bay-side doorstep. -
Phillip Island Little penguins coming ashore at dusk, plus fur seals and a Grand Prix circuit. -
Wilsons Promontory Mainland Australia's southernmost point — granite headlands, wombats and Squeaky Beach. -
Gippsland Ninety Mile Beach, alpine country and dairy-farm food east of Melbourne. -
Bells Beach The world's longest-running surf competition breaks here every Easter. -
Victoria's High Country Alpine huts, mountain-bike trails and Australia's snow season within reach of Melbourne. - Daylesford & the Macedon Ranges Australia's mineral-springs spa country, with cool-climate cellar doors alongside.
Full guide for Melbourne is being written. The map and destination list above are live — see the Victoria guide for the wider picture.
Photography
Images on this page are sourced from Wikimedia Commons under free licences (CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA) and are photographs of the places named. Author, licence and source for each:
- Melbourne — Arnaud Mesureur tbzr · CC0
- Great Ocean Road — Bob Tan · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Twelve Apostles — Dietmar Rabich · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Grampians (Gariwerd) — Joshua Tagicakibau · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Yarra Valley — Bob Tan · CC BY 4.0
- Mornington Peninsula — Hijacinta · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Phillip Island — Shuicai · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Wilsons Promontory — Dietmar Rabich · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Gippsland — Julie Constable · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Bells Beach — Alex Proimos from Sydney, Australia · CC BY 2.0
- Victoria's High Country — Matt from Melbourne, Australia · CC BY 2.0