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8 Day Tassie Tripper
Low Cost Escorted starting in Launceston and finishing in Wynyard
Tour Type: Low Cost Escorted Coach Tour
Classification: Low Cost (what is this?)
Duration: 8 Days
Tour Starts In: Launceston
Tour Finishes In: Wynyard
 from: AU $1785 pp

8 Day Tassie Tripper Touring Route:

8 Day Tassie Tripper Touring Route

Tour Inclusions:

  • 7 Full Buffet Breakfasts (B), 6 Hotel Dinners (D), 1 Lunch (L)
  • Welcome Drink
  • Travel Wallet & Map
  • Airport Transfers

Tour Highlights:

  • Visit Rosevears Vineyard
  • Swiss Village of Grindelwald
  • Legerwood’s memorial trees
  • Freycinet National Park
  • Port Arthur Historic Site
  • Isle of the Dead cruise
  • Tasman’s Arch and Blowhole
  • Cadbury Chocolate Factory or Sorrell Fruit Farm
  • See Tasmanian Devils
  • Visit historic Richmond
  • Explore Hobart & Launceston
  • Three-tiered Russell Falls
  • Lake St. Clair
  • Gordon River cruise
  • Huon Pine at Heritage Landing
  • Cradle Mt. National Park
  • Waldheim & Dove Lake

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Day
1		 Arrive Launceston
Transfer from airport (flights to arrive before 2pm) to hotel for check-in and a meet and greet before we head off through Launceston to the Tamar valley and the Rosevears vineyard for a wine tasting. We’ll also see the Swiss style village of Grindelwald. In the evening join your Tour director and travel companions for a welcome drink. Stay: Mercure Hotel, Launceston (D)
Day
2		 Freycinet National Park
First stop today is Sidling Lookout for photos. continuing on we’ll see Legerwood’s WW1 memorial tree carvings, the old mining town of derby and then drive through the lush Myrtle rainforest at Weldborough Pass. We’ll visit St. Helens at lunchtime. Then get your camera ready for the spectacular and breathtaking Freycinet National Park. We’ll take a guided walk with a National Park Ranger that will unveil astonishing views across brilliant blue water, forest and golden beach. cape Tourville Lookout will astound. Stay: Beachfront at Bicheno (B/D)
Day
3		 Port Arthur - Hobart
En route to our morning tea destination of copping we’ll travel through Swansea, Orford and Sorrell. Then chart a course for Port Arthur along an impressive cliff-lined coast. We’ll cross the 100 year old Denison Canal, and the historic once-guarded checkpoint of Eaglehawk Neck to infamous Port Arthur. We’ll cruise round the Isle of the dead, then take a fascinating guided walk of the Historic Site and prison. This afternoon we’ll head back over the Tasman Peninsula to Hobart. Along the way we’ll feast our eyes on the amazing vistas of Tasman’s Arch, Devil’s Kitchen and the Blowhole, then travel the Sorrell Causeway and cross Pittwater into Hobart. Stay: Wrest Point, Hobart (2 nights) (B/D)
Day
4		 Cadbury Chocolate Factory, Bonorong, Richmond
This morning we travel to claremont to see the Cadbury Chocolate Factory (seasonal). Crossing the Derwent River, we’ll get up close and personal with Tasmanian Devils and other native animals at Bonorong Wildlife Park. We travel through the Coal River Valley to the historic sandstone village of Richmond, site of Australia’s oldest operational road bridge and a perfect spot for lunch! Back to Hobart for a City Tour, with a spectacular view of Hobart and the Derwent River from Mt. Nelson. Then it’s all yours for the afternoon, and evening! Perhaps take a Derwent River cruise, walk through Sandy Bay or wander around historic Battery Point exploring its galleries, cafés and houses that convicts built. Tonight you’re free to sample the local cuisine. (B)
Day
5		 Russell Falls
We head west through new norfolk to the magnificent Mt. Field National Park – Tasmania’s oldest and the site of spectacular Russell Falls. We’ll have morning tea then wind our way up to the sensational Lake St. Clair for our lunch break with a view. Back down to Queenstown, via the rainforest-bordered road of the World Heritage protected Franklin-Gordon Wild Rivers National Park – beautiful, amazing, pristine! Stay: Chancellor Inn, Queenstown (2 nights) (B/D)
Day
6		 Gordon River Cruise
Today we travel to the fishing village of Strahan on the Macquarie Harbour where we’ll cruise the Gordon River, including lunch. You’ll be awestruck by the beauty of the crystal clear water reflecting the untouched wilderness of this pristine, heritage-listed river and be amazed by the 1,000 year old Huon Pine at Heritage Landing. Post cruise the afternoon is yours. Use your free time to relax or explore – enjoy an optional, highly recommended, train ride on the West Coast Wilderness Railway or visit the Huon Pine Museum, it’s up to you! (B/L/D)
Day
7		 Cradle Mountain
We travel past Lake Plimsoll through Tullah to the sensational Cradle Mountain National Park. once here we’ll take you up to Waldheim and gorgeous Dove Lake for spectacular views of Cradle Mountain – make sure the camera’s loaded and the batteries charged, this is a scenic highlight, and the air – there’s none fresher! Next we travel to Sheffield, for a wander through this town of murals, en route to Burnie. Stay: Beachfront Voyager, Burnie (B/D)
Day
8		 Depart Wynyard
Your tour concludes this morning after breakfast. You will be transferred to Wynyard Airport to connect with your onward flight (flights to depart prior to 12.30pm). Please note that post tour accommodation cannot be booked with this tour. (B)
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Tour Prices

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Valid for bookings made with Relaxing Journeys between 1 March 2010 and 31 March 2010 . Subject to availability at time of booking.



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