For travelers who came to Melbourne and intend to shop, the second largest city in Australia with a population of 3.3 million people could be a fun place to shop. One of the shopping center that can not be missed is the Queen Victoria Market is located at 513 Elizabeth Street.Queen Victoria Market offers items that can be whatever people think. Nearly 1,000 merchants selling goods on the market size of about seven hectares. The market is open for five days in a week (closed on Monday and Wednesday) the market include, among others sell food every day, such as various kinds of fish, meat, fruits and vegetables, wine, bread, snacks such as sandwiches, hot dogs, pizza, clothes, various kinds of souvenirs, compact discs and cassettes, children's toys, and pets.
No wonder the people of Australia called the Queen Victoria Market is more than just the main shopping destination. For those of Australia, Queen Victoria Market is a historic place, appeal to travelers, and an institution for the citizens of Melbourne. For over 100 years, these shopping centers serving the needs of more than 200,000 people in one week.
Queen Victoria Market is located at the northwest edge of the central district of Melbourne's economy was officially opened on March 20, 1878. Along with the passage of time, other markets also appeared along with the growing population. However, with changes in shopping patterns Melbourne residents, one by one, the markets were falling.
However, the Queen Victoria Market persisted to this day. Not surprisingly, most of the buildings located at the Queen Victoria Market is the old buildings which include historic buildings.
The market is open from 06.00 it closed at 14:00 (Tuesday and Thursday), at 18:00 (Friday), at 15.00 (Saturday), and at 16:00 (Sunday). And, can be reached by using buses, trams, trains, or use a car, given the wide parking lot. That's why the Queen Victoria Market easily find breeders who sell pets, such as chickens and ducks around the pickup truck parked in the parking lot of the Queen Victoria Market.
If you can compare, Queen Victoria Market is similar to the Chatuchak Market in Bangkok, which is also known as the weekend market (weekend market). In addition to goods that were sold in a variety of markets, the price is very competitive, if you do not want to say cheap.
Travel to Melbourne would not all for business spending. On the outskirts of Melbourne, about an hour away by car, also can be found Healesville Nature Reserve, which became the maintenance of more than 200 species of birds, mammals, and reptiles native to Australia.
Nature reserve covering an area 32 hectares that was opened to the public since 1934. Although three animals native to Australia's most widely known is the koala, kangaroo, and dingo (a type of wolf-like dog figure), actually a collection of Australian native animals are still many more, including platypus, mammal that lived in two worlds, water and land, which running around trying to eat at night.
The officers at Healesville Nature Reserve stands ready to provide a detailed explanation about the animals that were there, ranging from kangaroos that can determine themselves when her son was moved from her womb into her pocket maintenance, until koalas who slept for 21 hours in a day.
Outside the nature reserve, on the outskirts of Melbourne also have other places of interest to visit, among other places making wine. One of them is Yering Station in the Yarra Valley, which was founded in 1838. Although not the largest wine producer in Australia, Yering Station is one of a family-owned wine companies are difficult to pass up.
As one tourist destination, Melbourne which could be categorized as a metropolitan city to the tourist-friendly enough economic class are familiar with the term backpacker (Coach backpack). Disabled tourist shelters backpack adjacent to the hotel, four star hotels.
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