Backpacker essentials june 2013

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Stroll Hobart’s waterfront, above; and MONA's MoFo festival, right. Tourism Tasmania & Scott Sporleder, Matador. MONA.

SAVE A WHOLE DAY FOR YOUR MONA EXPERIENCE – YOU WON’T REGRET IT. A great start would be to get your bearings with a bird’s eye view of the city and the meandering Derwent River from Mt Wellington, with a viewing platform that will make you feel like you have wings. Well thought out interpretive signage will give you a sense of place and prepare you for your days ahead. This is as good a time as any to experience your first local culinary delight with a Scallop Pie. These little delicacies of Aussie-fastfood-meets-the-sea are not to everyone’s taste but definitely worth a try. Now you may well have the energy to make your way along the river’s edge to Battery Point - one of the most authentic ways to step back in time with its rows of historical cottages and drinking holes. It is steeped with the historical presence of convicts and bushrangers, whalers and sailors, barmaids and prostitutes, cannibals FIVE MUST DO'S IN TOWN and criminals – an important part of the social fabric of this place. Museum of Old and New Art By this time you should be ready mona.net.au for some serious (and not so serious) Lark’s Distillery culture. larkdistillery.com.au Save a whole day for your MONA experience – you won’t regret it. The Scallop Pies best way to arrive is by water, so it’s a tasmanianscalloppiecomp good thing that MONA offers a regular any.com.au return ferry service for just $20. This Salamanca Market and is the perfect way to see some of the Art District ever present Derwent River and learn about-salamanca.com.au a little more of historic Hobart as your captain provides an entertaining Hobart Ghost Tour and insightful commentary along the ghosttoursofhobart.com.au journey.

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