Travel Tasmania

Travel Tasmania. It is an isolated but fantastic place, with some of the friendliest people you’ll meet in Down Under.

In Australia, where anything pre-1986 is regarded as an antiquity, having any sort of history is unusual. Tasmania has wild locations drenched in history, which the islanders embrace. Once named Van Diemen’s Land, this island was home to a cruel convict colony, mainly for second offenders and escapees.

The island’s treasures include traditional bushwalking, cycling, rafting, and kayaking. The undisturbed wilderness is a great place to explore.

Highlights

Hobart:

A lovely little seafront city with great pubs and restaurants, especially along the waterfront at Salamanca Place, where there’s also a top weekend market.

Food:

Tassie is famed for its dairy products, especially cheese, and is also renowned for prime beefsteaks, and wine. All things are guaranteed to make you a happy little porker. Plus there’s a real chocolate factory, which you can tour.

Countryside:

About one-third of this beautiful isle is undisturbed virgin wilderness. Of the more accessible natural wonders, highlights include Cradle Mountain, Lake St Clair, and Freycinet National Park. Home of the post-card picturesque Wine Glass Bay.

Port Arthur:

The historical site of an old prison. It’s macabrely fascinating with instruments of torture and old jail cells, including a silent one where inmates were deprived of all sensory contact by always wearing a hood. The ghost tours here will give even the cynics a genuinely frightening experience.

Tasmanian Tiger the legend continues.

The thylacine, also commonly known as the Tasmanian tiger or Tasmanian wolf, is an extinct carnivorous marsupial that was native to the Australian mainland and the islands of Tasmania and New Guinea. Wikipedia

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