Thursday, 15 January 2009

Bendigo and Ballarat

Bendigo has not got too many places of interest to visit. Its only claim to fame is that it was part of the goldfields where gold was mined in the mid to late 1800s.

The weather is particularly hot at the moment with the temps getting up to 36 deg. C.

Ballarat is some 122 Km away from Bendigo so it didn’t take us long to get there, relatively short trip compared with the last couple of trips. Again it is a town in the Goldfields area and is famous for a small rebellion at a place called the Eureka stockade.

There is a replica of the town, called Sovereign Hill, as it was during the gold rush of the 1850s and we spent a very good day at this place.

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