Bendigo

Travel Blogs from Bendigo, Australia

Sort by Newest Best first

Bendigo, Bendigo, Australia travel blog

Bendigo

A travel blog entry by ieeworldvoyage

This is a top pick!
37

... même plus dur encore pour moi de comprendre le vieil homme qui a travaillé dans la mine d’or de central Deborah à Bendigo pendant 47 ans. Il n’arrêtait pas de faire des plaisanteries, mais je les ratais toutes. Nous avions pensé aller à ...

Quick Fire, Bendigo, Australia travel blog

Quick Fire

A travel blog entry by sammmiles

Hello Everybody. A real quick entry. Grabbing myself another pin for my map. I've just come back from Confest. http://www.confest.org.au/pages/ It's a wonderful festival which I also went to for New Years. At New Years I loafed about socializing, ...

The longest journey begins with but a single step, Bendigo, Australia travel blog

The longest journey begins with but a single step

A travel blog entry by atlarge

1
5

... (many happy times), but when you leave home at 4.00pm this is how far you get.  (For us Diggers' Rest is actually Bendigo.) Yummy spag bog, a comfy driveway for the trailer and a warm welcome awaited us at Judy and Ian's. Great to see the all the ...

It Begins ..., Bendigo, Australia travel blog

It Begins ...

A travel blog entry by marcia_octoman

... Tumby Bay, and the fact the weather on the east coast of Oz was not good, I didn't officially start my round Oz trip till February. I left Bendigo for the short journey to Mum's place at Avoca for a couple of days before heading to Adelaide for a ...

good luck chinese, Bendigo, Australia travel blog

good luck chinese

A travel blog entry by keenos

... , beautiful furniture and clothing as well as the longest and the oldest chinese dragons in the world- beating whats in china even! bendigo is renowned for its easter parade, featuring the ceremonial dragon dance. shame we have missed it. bev adds to her ...

Easter in Bendigo, Bendigo, Australia travel blog

Easter in Bendigo

A travel blog entry by sunshinetrekker

10

Ok, so I'm writing this entry a little late, but heaps has gone on since my birthday. In Australia, when you have a holiday- usually it is from Friday to Monday (which is great for aussies and bad for travellers looking for a place in a hostel!) So Friday ...

Day NINETY FIVE, Bendigo, Australia travel blog

Day NINETY FIVE

A travel blog entry by feltham

1

Driving the short distance of 350km to Bendigo and the thought of seeing Granma, Papa and Celie was exciting. We had a short break for petrol and coffee in Charlton which is one of the towns that was flooded this year. It is a nice town that looks to be ...

The Sequel, Bendigo, Australia, United Arab Emirates travel blog

The Sequel

A travel blog entry by midtowntsl0

IRAIDA'S WEEKLY BLOG http://www.travelpod.com/members/icn06 ...

Bendigo, Bendigo, Australia travel blog

Bendigo

A travel blog entry by marcia_octoman

Bendigo - Home During my trip around Australia I drove just on 25000 kilometres and saw many amazing sights. I can't wait to get back to many of them, and am certainly planning more travelling both in Australia and overseas in the future. I can now say ...

Back in Kagaroo Flat, Bendigo, Australia travel blog

Back in Kagaroo Flat

A travel blog entry by rspear

2

Had a nice cool ride up to Bendigo this morning.  Stopped in Kyneton for morning tea, arriving in Kangaroo Flat (a Bendigo suburb) about noon. Went out for a drive around the area to see where the recent bushfires had made their marks.  Quite ...

Dalai Lama, Bendigo, Australia travel blog

Dalai Lama

A travel blog entry by dallbrooke

5

... .  In the end he used the term 'quite smart' and then chuckled heartily!  It was a really special day and I feel priviliged to have been there at what is being described as probably the Dalai Lama's final tour of ...

down t' pit, Bendigo, Australia travel blog

down t' pit

A travel blog entry by keenos

... . we do manage to catch the last tour of the day in the gold mine - unlike the one we saw in ballarat, the bendigo fields are still being investigated and mined today but the workings are very deep and its quite disconcerting to be down underground. more ...

Goldfields: money, money, money, Bendigo and Ballarat, Victoria, Australia travel blog

Goldfields: money, money, money

A travel blog entry by emconnolly2000

The Gold Rush. Not just a Californian phenomenon: it was alive and well in 19th century Australia. Tonnes of gold was mined and vast amounts of money were made. And lots of miners died in pursuit of riches too. Today's trip was to 2 of the big gold ...

Christmas in Bendigo, Bendigo, Australia travel blog

Christmas in Bendigo

A travel blog entry by benihnio

... for paddle steamers, I'm not sure why but they have a lot of them and we decided to have a ride along the Murray (Australia's longest river) on a paddle steamer called the pride of the Murray, which was really nice. The real reason we went to Echuca ...

Bendigo, Bendigo, Australia travel blog

Bendigo

A travel blog entry by queandsue

1
8

... stopover in Dandenong for a wheel alignment and new tyres for the motorhome we headed off, much lighter in the wallet, to Bendigo. Bendigo is a nice country town with a real sense of history about it.  There are lots of lovely old buildings ...

Pears Galore, Maroopna, Australia travel blog

Pears Galore

A travel blog entry by travoholic

1

I arrived in Maroopna not knowing what to expect at all. I assumed the work would be hard, but I had no idea how jobs would be arranged, how much or what type of work there was, or most importantly, if I was being realistic about my chances at saving ...

The Queen's English, Bendigo, Australia travel blog

The Queen's English

A travel blog entry by samaraclifford

1

... " are lazy with their speech or it is simply getting a whole lot worse. I was listening to some people on the train from Bendigo to Melbourne and it was mostly full of people off to see a football match between Collingwood Magpies and Hawthorn. I know a ...

Urlaub im Urlaub, Bendigo, Australia travel blog

Urlaub im Urlaub

A travel blog entry by mcdowel

... und Apfelschorle ernährte und auch entsprechend hungrig war. Eventuelle Nachwirkungen in der Richtung wurden mir dann in Bendigo ausgetrieben. Wir übernachteten bei Bec's (Simons Freundin) ihren Eltern, dem Anschein nach einer recht wohlhabenden ...

Gold Mines and Miners, Bendigo, Australia travel blog

Gold Mines and Miners

A travel blog entry by charlotte.in.oz

29

Well ok .. we drove here today but i didn't actually do anything in Bendigo until tomorrow ... but i will put it all in the blog anyway ... So ... we drove into Bendigo and visited a Gold Mine ... cool ... there was gold in the walls .. and it wasn't at ...

Day 10 - Gold diggers, Bendigo, Australia travel blog

Day 10 - Gold diggers

A travel blog entry by shutrbug

2
3

... us enough to go into Bendigo for the Central Deborah Gold Mine Tour. After gold was discovered in Bendigo in 1851, these gold fields quickly became Australia's richest goldfield, and the 7th richest in the world.  Bendigo had 5,600 gold mines, and ...

In the mines, Bendigo, Australia travel blog

In the mines

A travel blog entry by shawn25

1
10

... , put on their miners lamps then off they went into the underground caves. They had to descend 61 metres below the surface of Bendigo.  Of course i opted out of that one.  I quite happily sat in the caravan doing my blog.   When they ...

Echuca, Bendigo, Australia travel blog

Echuca

A travel blog entry by roundoztravels

As you can see from the previous entry, we went to Echuca today. It seems that this destination deserves more time and will be included in a future trip. ...

Ebony's 21st Birthday Party, Mandurang, BENDIGO, Australia travel blog

Ebony's 21st Birthday Party

A travel blog entry by rholmberg

5

We celebrated Eb's 21st while we were home from Hanoi. All our familes gathered at the Lynvalle Winery near Bendigo for the occassion. It was a great day and a beautiful ...

Fall Break Trip Part 1, Bendigo, Australia travel blog

Fall Break Trip Part 1

A travel blog entry by andy_derekinoz

1
10

... -less. Then comes the exciting part: the next day we drove along the Great Ocean Road, which was one of the major sites of Australia that I wanted to see during our year. The weather held up and didn't rain and although the skies weren't clear, I still ...

My first week in Oz, Bendigo, Australia travel blog

My first week in Oz

A travel blog entry by icn06

3

... Jay off in dubai, flew to Sydney, and flew to Melbourne. Paid for a 50 dollar cab ride to the Conservation Volunteers Australia office. There I met fellow volunteers and found out we were all being sent to places outside of Melbourne. Gemma, a nice ...

Day two:  Prime  Time, Bendigo, Australia travel blog

Day two: Prime Time

A travel blog entry by shutrbug

1
5

... a pillow, more an OTTOMAN! - of puff pastry filled with steak, eggs, cheese and bacon. One of the reasons we came to Australia at this time is to help Paul's son Paddy with renovations on their 1940 bungalow. The house has definite possibilities, but at ...

Easter Parade, Bendigo, Australia travel blog

Easter Parade

A travel blog entry by roundoztravels

1

... 200m to the Chinese Precinct and watched the dragons and fireworks all over again. Seeing as it was all over by 3PM we decided to head out of Bendigo towards Lake Epplilock and back into South Bendigo before heading back to the van at the showgrounds. ...

The Travel Tales Of Aussie Bear, Bendigo, Australia travel blog

The Travel Tales Of Aussie Bear

A travel blog entry by jennigeoff

1

The Bear is on the ...

We're off!, Bendigo, Australia travel blog

We're off!

A travel blog entry by morrisonfamily

... much longer than we thought.  We will never let our place fill up with junk again!  9.30am departure got us to Bendigo around 1pm after a few stops to fix some loose ends and get some breakfast. We stayed at the Showgrounds which was cheap (well ...

Abode Bendigo Contemporary Service Townhouse, Bendigo, Australia travel blog

Abode Bendigo Contemporary Service Townhouse

A travel blog entry by bendigoapartmen

17

... come and enjoy the charm and vibrancy of this great city. Explore our rich heritage in a modern, contemporary lifestyle. Abode Bendigo is Deluxe self contained accommodation consisting of 3 X 3 Bedroom Townhouse's fully equipped and located just a short ...

Sort by Newest Best first