Commonwealth of Australia The capital city of Canberra is located in the north-eastern part of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) in the foothill plains of the Australian Alps, spanning both sides of the Molongoro River. 1824 saw the establishment of a settlement known as Camberley, which was renamed Canberra in 1836, and in 1899 it was transferred to the ACT following the formation of the Commonwealth District. 1913 saw the start of the construction of a new city, which was officially relocated from Melbourne in 1927. In 1927, the capital was officially moved to Canberra, and the federal parliament was officially moved here from Melbourne, with a population of about 310,000 (June 2000).
Canberra was designed by the American architect Burley Griffin. The city is divided into two main parts by the lake named after Griffin, with Metropolitan Hill to the north and Capital Hill to the south, which gradually extends in all directions from this center. With the new Parliament Building, completed in May 1988, as the centerpiece, the south side houses the main government offices and embassies and consulates of various countries, and is the central area for politics and diplomacy. On the north side, residences, department stores, and theaters are arranged in a well-ordered, peaceful, and secluded manner, making it obvious that this is a residential living area.
Lake Griffin, which was built artificially in 1963, has a circumference of 35 kilometers and an area of 704 hectares, and the Commons Wells and Kings Bridges across Lake Griffin connect the north and south parts of the city. In the center of the lake, there is the "Captain Cook Fountain" built to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Captain Cook's landing, spraying water columns up to 137 meters high. There is a clock tower on Aspen Island in the lake. It was a gift from Britain to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the laying of the foundation stone of Canberra. One of the big bells weighs 6 tons, and the small one is only 7 kilograms, **** there are 53 of them.
The city is home to the Australian National University, St. John the Baptist Church, the Australian National War Memorial, the Canberra Institute of Technology and the Institute of Higher Education.
Sydney
Sydney, the capital of New South Wales and Australia's largest city, covers an area of 2,400 square kilometers on the low hills surrounding Jackson Bay, and was named after Viscount Sydney, the British Home Secretary at the time.
More than 200 years ago, it was a wilderness, but after two centuries of hard work, it has become Australia's most prosperous modern, international city, known as the "New York of the Southern Hemisphere".
Sydney Harbor is Australia's main distribution center for imported goods. The total area of the harbor is 55 square kilometers, the mouth of the small bay, is the world's famous natural harbor. 1933 built across the harbor over the Sydney Harbour Bridge up to 1149 meters long, its single-hole span 503 meters, the bridge deck 59 meters above sea level, such as the rainbow over the sky, spectacular, is the first big arch bridge in the southern hemisphere. It links the north and south of the city into one. The submarine tunnel lying underneath the harbor is 2.3 kilometers long, which was completed in 1992 to increase the transportation capacity on both sides of the harbor by 50 percent.
The signposts on Sydney's Dickson Street
Roxas Point, under the bridge, was the landing place for early settlers. Next to the bridge is Taronga Zoo, with 28 hectares of natural forest where rare birds and animals roam free.
The sail-shaped Sydney Opera House stands on Benelux Point on the harbor. Facing the water on three sides, the bridge and the Botanic Gardens at its back, the Opera House is like a fleet of ships sailing out to sea, or a giant white shell left on the beach, and since its completion in 1973, it has always been known for its innovative shape and elegance.
Sydney Tower in the center of the city is another symbol of Sydney, the golden appearance of the glittering eye-catching. Tower height of 304.8 meters, the tallest building in the southern hemisphere. Climbing the conical tower, looking around, Sydney cityscape at a glance.
The Rocks, where Sydney's old city is located, has become a display of Australia's development of the first 20 years of hard times when the people's mood of the "Museum of activities". 1988 built the Aquarium, the world's largest water storage capacity, where people can watch more than 350 kinds of colorful marine fish and enjoy the underwater world of the fascinating scene.
Sydney Opera House stands in Sydney Harbour at Benelux Point,
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Sydney is home to the largest Chinese community in Australia. In Chinatown, Chinese-style teahouses and restaurants abound, and Mandarin, Cantonese, and Hainanese can be heard everywhere. Less than half a kilometer from Chinatown, the Chinese garden "Yi Garden" is one of the projects to commemorate Australia's 200th anniversary. It covers an area of 10,000 square meters, with a building area of 1,500 square meters, the rest of which is landscaped and green. There are more than 40 scenic spots in the garden, "Garden of Friendship" is a garden of friendship, which is a symbol of friendship between the people of China and Australia, and was officially opened in January 1988. Queen Victoria Building, built more than 100 years ago, is a luxurious Byzantine-style building and one of the busiest shopping centers in the world. The city's centuries-old British Victorian and European Renaissance-style mansions are interspersed with skyscrapers rising up from the ground, making the cityscape rich in history and contemporary flavor.
Sydney is a nationally significant cultural center, with the University of Sydney (built in 1852) and the Australian Museum (built in 1836), the earliest in the country. The city's eastern harbor is a natural bathing and surfing spot, with a spectacular array of colorful sails and boats competing in the sea.
Sydney is Australia's largest economic center, industrial and commercial development. Railroads, highways and air networks and the vast interior of the connection, there are regular sea and air routes and the world linked to the countries, for Australia's important gateway.
Melbourne
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If Sydney is the New York of the South Pacific, Melbourne can be said to be London. Melbourne, the capital of Victoria, is Australia's second largest city, which is an ancient city and also Australia's economic, cultural and financial center.
Melbourne is a center for immigrants, and most immigrants to Australia live in Melbourne and Sydney. The immigrants started their new life here, but at the same time kept the traditions and customs of their own people. Want to learn about Italian food? Then go to Leggen Street. Want to know about Chinese culture? Then go to Chinatown. Chinatown not only has Chinese restaurants, but also Malaysian restaurants, Thai restaurants, Japanese restaurants and so on, so it is not only a window to understand the Chinese, but also East and Southeast Asian people.
Melbourne is also a port city in the southeast of Australia. In summer, people love to go to the beach, and Melbourne is surrounded by many mountains, so it is a good place for skiing in winter after it snows.
Best Time to Visit
The best time to visit Melbourne is in the fall, when the average temperature is 20 degrees, which is more pleasant and the plants are colorful. Overall, the weather is very changeable, with daytime temperatures ranging from 25-29 degrees in the summer, sometimes reaching 40 degrees. The average temperature in spring and fall is 20 degrees and in winter it is between 13-15 degrees. Spring and summer are the most unpredictable in terms of temperature, and it is not surprising to see a difference of 15 degrees between the highest temperatures of the two days before and after, as well as a big difference between daytime and nighttime temperatures, which can be as much as 15 or 20 degrees. Winter lows are usually 5-9 degrees, sometimes as low as 1-3 degrees.
Festivals
There are many festivals held here each year, including Australia's First Formula One race around the Albert Park track, the Australian Open, one of the world's top four international tennis tournaments, and Australia's top international tennis tournament. Melbourne hosts annual international sporting events such as the Melbourne Cup, one of the world's top four international tennis tournaments, and the Melbourne Cup, Australia's premier international horse race.
Major Festivals:
MOOMBA FESTIVAL
This is the Melbourne resident's carnival, which is held in March every year.
Momba means that everyone is happy together. Every Mumba, a series of days are filled with people celebrating. The celebrations include fine arts exhibitions, music performances, songs, dances and dramas, sports competitions, float parades and other programs. Chinese programs are also part of the festival, and dragon lantern and lion dances are popular.
Melbourne Arts Festival
The festival is held every year in mid-September and lasts for 17 days. Famous artists and arts groups from around the world compete in the same city, focusing on world-class music, dance and theater programs.
Melbourne Horse Racing Festival
It's one of the most famous horse races in the world and the only thing that can make the whole of Australia stop working together. During the races, ladies wear a million hats on their heads, making them a unique sight outside the racecourse.
Sheep and Wool Festival
The world's largest wool fair is held every July.
Chinese New Year
Whenever the Chinese New Year falls on the Chinese calendar, the Melbourne City Council organizes Chinese folklore performances and Chinese food exhibitions and sales in Chinatown, making the Chinese New Year a festival celebrated by people of all nationalities*** in Melbourne.
Victoria Arts Center
Victoria Arts Center has become a symbol of Melbourne, from Melbourne's city center across the Yarra River is South Melbourne (South Melbourne). Cross the Princess Bridge from Flinders Station and walk along St. Kilda St. for 5 minutes and you will see the new archway on your right, inside which is the Victorian Arts Center.
Inside the Center is the Victorian Art Gallery, which is the largest art gallery in Australia with 25,000 items in its collection. The architecture of the arts center is very impressive, with a large atrium and a hall with a stained glass ceiling, which is well worth seeing.
Admission: Free
Open: 10:00-17:00, Wednesdays 10:00-21:00, closed Mondays
Philippine Island
About 130 kilometers south of Melbourne, on the east side of the Philippine Harbour, at whose entrance there is a small island known as Philippine Island. For Melbourne citizens, it is a beach resort for surfing, boating, fishing, water skiing and other activities.
Phillip Island is famous because the Summerland Beach near Nobis Point on the southwestern tip of the island is a sanctuary for the elfin penguin, the world's smallest penguin at 30 centimeters tall, which can be seen returning to their nests from the sea in flocks at sunset, and because of their small size, they are fun to watch as they waddle together. It is quite cold to observe them from the coast in winter, so it is best to come in the southern hemisphere during the summer (November-March). If you bring binoculars, you can see oceanic seals and rock-roosted seals from Point Nobis.
On Phillip Island, there are also many strange rocks with differentiated surfaces, in the form of rectangular columns, standing vertically, in the shape of an organ, called the piano stone, is also a tourist is bound to view a scene.
Transportation: You can take a day trip to Phillip Island locally in Melbourne, which is about 2 hours by car.
Opening times:Penguin watching from 18:30 - 20:00 (May-September) and 19:30 - 21:30 (October-April), the island is open all year round.
Food:The island has a wide selection of Western, Chinese and seafood restaurants.
Tips:Photos and videos are not allowed in the scenic area, so don't bring these devices. Also, it's cold on the island, so even in summer you should wear extra cold-proof clothes.
Royal Botanic Gardens
Located next to King's Park, the botanic gardens, about 40 hectares in size, have about 10,000 varieties of plants from home and abroad, in addition to those native to Australia. Since the opening of the garden in 1845, it has been collecting plants from all over the world and gradually expanding to the scale you see today.
In the south-east corner of the garden, there is a red gum tree called the "Secession Memorial Tree", which is said to have been named after the event held around it in 1851 to celebrate Victoria's independence from New South Wales.
There is a simple wooden building called La Trobe Cottage in the park, which was the residence of the magistrate La Trobe when Victoria was still part of NSW. The house was originally located at Jolimont on the north bank of the Yarra River, but was moved to this site in 1966 and is preserved as a historical monument.
Transportation: 15 minutes by tram 3, 6, 8, 16, 67 in the city center, or 30 minutes on foot from the city center.
Admission: free
Opening hours: 6:30-20:30
Tips: Don't litter in the park and don't carve or scratch on the trees.
Introduction to Accommodation
Melbourne accommodation is concentrated in Lin Yin Street on Barker Avenue. Centrally located hotels have a homely atmosphere and make visitors feel right at home, so even if you arrive in Melbourne late at night, you can find a simple place to stay if you go to this neighborhood. Alternatively, for nightlife, you can find these hostels along Fitzroy Avenue.
Melbourne's hostels are B&B, which is about $40 for a single or $50 for a double, plus breakfast, and you can also stay at the university's hostel.
Introduction of food and drink
Melbourne is a city with a quarter of overseas immigrants, so its food and drink culture is a blend of the characteristics of various countries, the city's more than 2,000 restaurants operating around the world's food, and even the less common elsewhere in the Afghani cuisine, African Zulu cuisine are available, you can have a full meal, a melting pot of cultures is the Melbourne food and drink culture to show a style. The melting pot of cultures is a style of Melbourne's dining culture.
The annual Melbourne Food Festival is an influential food and cultural event not only in Australia, but also in the southern hemisphere and even around the world. It has successfully showcased Melbourne's food culture and unique lifestyle to the world, making Melbourne the undisputed "food capital" of Australia. In Melbourne, you can also experience the 10-year-old "World's Longest Lunch", which takes place from the third Sunday in March to mid-April at 25 Melbourne venues, and is an unforgettable experience that involves sampling Victoria's local cuisine and sipping on authentic wines.
Restaurant search
Victoria Street
Victoria Street in Richmond is home to a number of Vietnamese-owned restaurants, where the flavors of the Central and Southern Peninsula are particularly authentic.
Sydney Road
Sydney Road in Brunswick is the place to go for the usual Middle Eastern fare, and Lipanang's Dessert House is well worth a visit. You can catch the city tram here.
Carlton
Carlton is Melbourne's "Little Italy", and Italian food is very authentic here.
Lonsdale Street
Lonsdale Street is where you can enjoy Mediterranean-style fun in Greek-style cafes. Melbourne has the largest Greek population outside of Greece.
Brunswick Street
Brunswick Street, in the Fitzroy neighborhood, is a haven for world cuisine, with a wide range of food and snacks from all over the world.
China Town
Centrally located in China Town, you can eat any flavor of Chinese food you want.
Other
Colonial Tramcar Restaurant
Founded in 1927, the Colonial Tramcar Restaurant was the world's first fine-dining restaurant to be housed inside a tram, and is Australia's 'favorite tourist restaurant'. The nostalgic interior of the car allows diners to enjoy delicious food while also enjoying the cityscape. But you'll need to know where you're going to eat beforehand.
Opening hours of the Tram: Lunch 13:00-15:00 (lunch for groups of 20 or more)
Dinner 17:45-19:15 for the first period
20:30-23:30 for the second period
Telephone: (03) 388-993-993 >Restaurant Tel: (03)9696400
Wanshougong (FlowerDrum)
Hailed as Australia's best Chinese restaurant, attracting countless diners from all over the world with its Cantonese cuisine, and hosting a number of international celebrities including George W. Bush Sr. In order to ensure the quality of the restaurant, it has been the only one in Chinatown for more than 20 years with no outlets.
Entertainment
Melbourne is known as the arts and culture capital of Australia. Visitors can't miss the chance to see a world-class opera or concert at one of the city's many theaters, and the lively nightclubs and bars are the ideal place to enjoy jazz and rock music. The onsite restaurant serves international standard cuisine.
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Sports
Melbourne is a city of sports, with the Melbourne Cup horse race, the Australian Open tennis tournament, the Australian Grand Prix and many other world-famous events taking place here. The Melbourne Cricket Ground, the Australian Rugby Grand Final stadium and the Flinders Park National Tennis Center are some of the must-see venues in Melbourne.
The Royal Melbourne Golf Course, Huntingdale or the Kingston Keys Wellness Center are some of the most luxurious tennis centers in Melbourne to swing a racket and get fit.
Horse racing
The annual Spring Racing Carnival at the Melbourne Cup in Fremantle is one of the most stylish and glamorous times of the year, when Australia's and the world's finest horses come together to compete.
Racing
The Formula One Grand Prix, held at Melbourne's Albert Park Lake every March, is also a wildly exciting event. Australia is the first stop in the world of Formula One.
The arts
Melbourne is known as Australia's arts and culture capital, and for world-class opera, the latest Broadway show, ballet, drama or concerts, there's no better place to go than the superb theater at the Victorian Arts Centre.
Nightclubs
Nightclubs playing live music and staging comedy are the most popular in Melbourne, and the Crown Entertainment Center in the Southbank area, is the leading area for entertainment and gambling in Melbourne, with poker, roulette, roulette, sic bo, card gambling, keno, and double-dice.
Introduction to shopping
In Melbourne, people love to shop, and Melbournians take pride in dressing fashionably.
The main shopping centers in Melbourne are located on Bourke and Collins Streets, within walking distance of most of the city's hotels, and the big department stores are located on Bourke Walk.
Collins Street's "Paris district" is near Spring Street, which includes almost all the top international fashion brand boutiques, but the prices are not much better than those in Hong Kong; Littlecollins Street, which is a block away from Collins Street, is a great place to see the creativity of Melbourne's local designers; Flinder Street is a great place to see the creativity of the local designers; and Flinder Street is a great place to see the creativity of the local designers. FlinderLane is the favorite place for fashion forward people, and every November, when the Australian Fashion Festival is held, this place is full of masters and becomes a paradise for fashionistas. Famous stores include Alice Eughemia, Lvy Hopes and Christine Ac?cessories; Chapel Yuppie Street is Melbourne's most fashionable place, and on weekends it's the busiest, with fashion buyers from all over the world "shopping" here, such as Bettina Lianode, who sells a range of sexy fashion products. BettinaLianode's sexy jeans, DinosaurDesigns all kinds of jewelry and home accessories and so on, are people's favorite; is located in the Yarra River South Bank Recreation Center of the Southgate District, a variety of specialty stores, usually Melbourne stores close at 17:00, but here is operated until the early hours of the morning, where SundayMarket can find a lot of inexpensive bargains. The Sunday Market here can find a lot of inexpensive handicrafts, the girls like to go here.
Melbourne Center is one of Australia's largest retail malls, it is an ice-cream cone shaped building built around a building more than 100 years old, in the quaint Queen Victoria Matket shopping market (Queen Victoria Matket) is a pleasure to enjoy, the most famous here are chocolate, milk sugar, moisturizing creams, bears dolls and woolen fashion. The Victorian Arts Center bazaar is a great place for visitors to spend their free time, and the Meat Market Craft Center is Melbourne's premier craft market, so if you're looking for a souvenir to take back home with you, take a stroll there.
Others:
DavidJones, Myer: great department store areas
brunswickstreet: individual clothing, unique handmade goods
Richmond: alternative goods, factory outlets
ToorakRoad: designer goods, second-hand high street clothing.
BridgeStreet, SwanStreet: pedestrian street, popular clothing
Store opening hours: 10:00-17:00
Transportation
External Transportation
Air
Flights are available from Beijing and Shanghai in Mainland China to Melbourne. The International Arrivals Hall is located on the first floor of the Airport Building and the International Departures Hall is located on the second floor of the Airport Building. To the left and right of the International Arrivals Hall are the domestic halls of Australian Express Airways and Ansett Airlines. The International Arrivals Hall is equipped with banking, baggage storage, and counters for Express Airways and Ansett Airlines. Tullamarine Airport is about 25-35 minutes from the city center, $9 by Skybus or $25 by cab. The airport departure tax for international flights is A$27. Upon arrival in Melbourne, it takes about 50 minutes from Melbourne to Canberra, 1 hour to Sydney and 2 hours to Brisbane.
Trains
There are two main train stations in Melbourne. Spencer Street Station is the Melbourne terminus for Victoria's intrastate and interstate train lines, where you can catch a train to all the major attractions in the state. Flinders Street Station is the terminus for Melbourne's local train lines. There are trains to the state capitals and other major cities.
Highways
There are highways to all state capitals from Melbourne.
Internal Transportation
City Trains
Melbourne's main mode of transportation is the city train, which travels above ground most of the time. The train runs through major thoroughfares and major population centers, and because Melbourne's city center is a busy commercial center, many people use the train to get to work because they can't park their cars, and it's also the main mode of transportation for students.
The price of train tickets within Melbourne is based on zone and time of day, and tickets are valid for both trains and buses. Tickets are available from vending machines at the entrance to each station, and are usually divided into 2-hour passes (valid for 2 hours on all forms of inner-city transportation), all-day passes, monthly passes, and annual passes, with the longer the period of time you buy, the better the price ratio. In Melbourne, the main city area is divided into three zones, so if you travel across zones, the fare will increase.
Trams
Although no longer a major mode of transportation, trams remain today because of their unusual significance. There are free streetcars around Melbourne's city center for tourists to see the sights of the city, with full-time guides on hand to explain the sights, as well as a number of pamphlets and maps describing the places to visit in Melbourne.
Trams
Melbourne's city trams can be divided into two types, green and orange. There are simple signs at the stops, and when you ride, you get on from the back and buy a ticket on the bus, which costs A$0.60 for each zone in the city; in addition, there are also tickets that allow you to travel freely on the trams and buses within a day, which costs A$2, and when you get off, you ring the bell and get off at a reliable stop. It is characterized by a slower speed, but has many convenient stops and covers almost the entire city. The bi-directional Circle City Tram runs from 10:00-18:00, every 15 minutes. The Tourist Office has a free Tramwag Map, a city tram route map, available.
The main routes within the city are the boulevards of Flinders, Collins, Bourke and La Trobe, which run parallel east-west, and the north-south roads of Spencer, William, Elizabeth and Swanston, which run to the outskirts of the city.
Taxis
Melbourne's local cabs have a local flavor. There are usually cab stands on street corners, empty cars waiting to greet you in front of hotels, and cabs soliciting passengers. The basic fare is A$2, plus A$0.60 per kilometer thereafter.
Trivia: Melbourne's trams, trains and buses*** use a ticket, the Metcard. Fares vary according to distance, and the tickets are interesting: two-hour tickets (you can go anywhere in those two hours), one-day tickets, one-week tickets and passes.