Bendigo Joss House Temple
A Joss House temple for Bendigo’s Chinese miners The Bendigo Joss House temple was said to be built in the… Read More »Bendigo Joss House Temple
While not the only region where gold was discovered in Victoria, an area in a rough triangular shape between St Arnaud, Ararat, Bendigo, Castlemaine and Ballarat became known as the ‘golden triangle.
Beginning in 1851, this ‘golden triangle’ was the site of one of the world’s largest gold rushes and changed the state of Victoria forever.
A Joss House temple for Bendigo’s Chinese miners The Bendigo Joss House temple was said to be built in the… Read More »Bendigo Joss House Temple
Built by a retired Baptist Missionary, Reverend James Smith in 1861 and shortly after purchased by silversmith, Ernest Leviny, Buda… Read More »Buda Historic Home and Garden
Australia’s oldest working pottery Established in 1858, the heritage listed Bendigo Pottery is Australia’s oldest working pottery. In addition to… Read More »Bendigo Pottery
Built from a wealth of gold and the major city of the goldfields. A modern city of over 90,000 people,… Read More »Bendigo
One of Ballarat’s most popular tourist attractions and not to be missed on any Goldfields vacation is a step back… Read More »Sovereign Hill
The Victorian Goldfields Railway is now a tourist railway running along a scenic route of around 19 kilometers between Castlemaine and the… Read More »Victorian Goldfields Railway
Australia’s popular spa resort centre Daylesford is popular spa resort centre, having 80% of Australia’s known mineral springs in the… Read More »Daylesford
At the foot of Mount Macedon, lies the small township of the same name of around 1300 people. The township… Read More »Mount Macedon
Virtually in the centre of the Golden Triangle of Ararat, Bendigo, Ballarat and Castlemaine, Maryborough was once the administrative centre… Read More »Maryborough
Built from one of the world’s richest alluvial goldfields. Ballarat had only recently been established as a pastoral settlement, when… Read More »Ballarat
Of all the goldrush towns, Maldon is probably the one that has retained most of its 19th century aspect in… Read More »Maldon
The Art Gallery of Castlemaine is located within a beautiful art deco building specifically designed and built to hold the… Read More »Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historical Museum
The imposing Capital theatre, a heritage landmark in Bendigo, is the one of several venues dedicated to the performing arts… Read More »The Capital Bendigo Performing Arts Centre
The Bendigo Tramways is a historic tourist tramway that runs from North Bendigo though the city centre to the Central… Read More »Bendigo Tramways and Museum
The small rural township of Clunes has a history at the centre of the Victorian Gold Rush. The place where… Read More »Clunes
West of Bendigo is the small rural township of Moliagul, a town built by the gold rush and with the… Read More »Moliagul
Just 8 kms north west of Bacchus Marsh on the Western Freeway is the Werribee Gorge State Park. The gorge is where… Read More »Werribee Gorge State Park
The ‘Chinese cultural centre of Australia’ Built on the location of a former China town within Bendigo, the Golden Dragon… Read More »Golden Dragon Museum
Victoria’s first goldfield of the 1851 gold rush. As the location of Victoria’s first goldfield of the 1851 gold rush,… Read More »Castlemaine
One of Australia’s oldest regional art galleries, the Bendigo Art Gallery, while offering many contemporary collections, has large collections of… Read More »Bendigo Art Gallery