Lonely Planet Tasmania

Charles Rawlings-Way

Description

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Lonely Planet's Tasmania is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Laugh, be appalled, be turned on by art for grown-ups at MONA; hike to the summit of Cradle Mountain for spectacular views; and sample a hoard of gourmet local produce - all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Tasmania and begin your journey now! Inside Lonely Planet's Tasmania: Colour maps and images throughout Highlights and itineraries help you tailor your trip to your personal needs and interests Insider tips to save time and money and get around like a local, avoiding crowds and trouble spots Essential info at your fingertips - hours of operation, phone numbers, websites, transit tips, prices Honest reviews for all budgets - eating, sleeping, sightseeing, going out, shopping, hidden gems that most guidebooks miss Cultural insights provide a richer, more rewarding travel experience - covering history, people, music, landscapes, wildlife, cuisine, politics Covers Hobart & around, Tasman Peninsula & Port Arthur, the Southeast, Cradle Country & the West, Devonport & the Northwest, Launceston & around, Midlands & Central Highlands, the East Coast The Perfect Choice: Lonely Planet's Tasmania is our most comprehensive guide to Tasmania, and is perfect for discovering both popular and offbeat experiences. Looking for just the highlights? Check out Pocket Hobart, our handy-sized guide focused on the best sights and experiences for a short visit or weekend away. After wider coverage? Check out Lonely Planet's Australia for a comprehensive look at all the country has to offer. About Lonely Planet: Lonely Planet is a leading travel media company and the world's number one travel guidebook brand, providing both inspiring and trustworthy information for every kind of traveller since 1973. Over the past four decades, we've printed over 145 million guidebooks and grown a dedicated, passionate global community of travellers. You'll also find our content online, and in mobile apps, video, 14 languages, nine international magazines, armchair and lifestyle books, ebooks, and more. 'Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no other.' - New York Times 'Lonely Planet. It's on everyone's bookshelves, it's in every traveller's hands. It's on mobile phones. It's on the Internet. It's everywhere, and it's telling entire generations of people how to travel the world.' - Fairfax Media (Australia)eBook Features: (Best viewed on tablet devices and smartphones) Downloadable PDF and offline maps prevent roaming and data charges Effortlessly navigate and jump between maps and reviews Add notes to personalise your guidebook experience Seamlessly flip between pages Bookmarks and speedy search capabilities get you to key pages in a flash Embedded links to recommendations' websites Zoom-in maps and images Inbuilt dictionary for quick referencing Important Notice: The digital edition of this book may not contain all of the images found in the physical edition.

Sujets

• Tasmania
• Tasmanie

Informations

• Publié par: Lonely Planet
• Date de parution: 01 novembre 2018
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781788681506
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 38 Mo

Extrait

Tasmania

Contents

PLAN YOUR TRIP

Tasmania Map
Welcome to Tasmania
Tasmania’s Top 15
Need to Know
What’s New
If You Like…
Month by Month
Itineraries
Getting Around Tasmania
Walking in Tasmania
Activities
Travel with Children
Regions at a Glance

ON THE ROAD

HOBART & AROUND
Exploring Kunanyi/Mt Wellington
Hobart
Sights
Activities
Tours
Festivals & Events
Sleeping
Eating
Drinking & Nightlife
Entertainment
Shopping
Information
Around Hobart
Taroona
Kingston
Seven Mile Beach & Around
Richmond & Around
New Norfolk & Around
Mt Field National Park
TASMAN PENINSULA & PORT ARTHUR
Hiking in Tasman National Park
Sorell
Dunalley
Eaglehawk Neck
Taranna
Koonya, Nubeena & White Beach
Fortescue Bay & Tasman National Park
Port Arthur
THE SOUTHEAST
Margate
Kettering
Bruny Island
Woodbridge
Cygnet
Huonville & Around
Geeveston & Around
Dover
Southport & Around
Cockle Creek
MIDLANDS & CENTRAL HIGHLANDS
Road Trip > Heritage Highway
Midlands
Kempton
Oatlands
Ross
Campbell Town
Central Highlands
Bothwell
The Lakes
Hamilton
THE EAST COAST
Cycling the East Coast
Orford
Triabunna
Maria Island National Park
Swansea
Coles Bay & Freycinet National Park
Bicheno
St Marys
Scamander & Beaumaris
St Helens
Bay of Fires
Weldborough
Derby
Scottsdale & Around
Bridport
Flinders Island
LAUNCESTON & AROUND
Road Trip > Tamar Valley Trail
Launceston
Tamar Valley
Legana & Rosevears
Exeter
Beaconsfield & Around
Beauty Point
George Town
Low Head
Lilydale
South of Launceston
Hadspen & Carrick
Westbury
Longford
Evandale
Ben Lomond National Park
DEVONPORT & THE NORTHWEST
Devonport
Latrobe
Deloraine
Mole Creek
Gowrie Park
Lake Barrington & Around
Sheffield
Ulverstone
Penguin
Burnie
Wynyard & Around
Boat Harbour Beach & Around
Stanley
Smithton & Around
Marrawah
Arthur River
Takayna/Tarkine Wilderness
Corinna & the Pieman River
King Island
CRADLE COUNTRY & THE WEST
The Overland Track
Tullah
Rosebery
Zeehan
Strahan
Queenstown
Franklin-Gordon Wild Rivers National Park
Cradle Mountain Lake St Clair National Park
The Southwest

UNDERSTAND

Understand Tasmania
Tasmania Today
History
Gourmet Tasmania
Tasting Tasmania
Drinking Down South
Wilderness & Wildlife

SURVIVAL GUIDE

Directory A–Z
Accommodation
Activities
Climate
Customs Regulations
Discount Cards
Electricity
Food
Health
Insurance
Internet Access
Legal Matters
LGBTIQ+ Travellers
Maps
Money
Opening Hours
Post
Public Holidays
Safe Travel
Telephone
Time
Toilets
Tourist Information
Travellers with Disabilities
Visas
Volunteering
Women Travellers
Work
Transport
Getting There & Away
Getting Around
Behind the Scenes
Our Writers
Welcome to Tasmania

Revelling in isolation, Tasmania is busting out with fab festivals and sensational food and drink, riding a tourism-fuelled economic boom that’s the envy of all Australia.

Festival Frenzy
From wine, beer and food festivals to hot-ticket arts and music events, Tasmania packs a lot of parties into the calendar. Hobart’s photogenic docks play host to many, from Taste of Tasmania over New Year to the heritage glories of the Australian Wooden Boat Festival. Art and culture get their game on during Ten Days on the Island, while winter’s brooding, edgy Dark MOFO is building to rival the New Year party procession. MONA FOMA and Festivale bring the celebrations to Launceston, and The Unconformity unearths Queenstown’s character. Escape for a long weekend.

History Lesson
To understand Australian colonial history you first need to understand Tasmanian colonial history…and before that Tasmanian Aboriginal history. Tragic stories of the island’s past play out through its haunting, Gothic landscape: the sublime scenery around Port Arthur only reinforces the site’s grim history. It’s just as easy to conjure up visions of the raffish past in Hobart’s Battery Point and its atmospheric pubs. Elsewhere, architectural treasures include convict-built bridges at Ross, Richmond and Campbell Town.

Into The Wild
From squeaky white sand and lichen-splashed granite to bleak alpine plateaus, Tasmania punches well above its weight when it comes to natural beauty. Hiking opportunities range from short, waterfall-punctuated forest trails to multiday wilderness epics with no one else in sight. You can explore the island’s craggy coastlines and wild rivers by kayak, raft, yacht or cruise boat. Tassie’s unique native wildlife casts a watchful eye over proceedings.

Tastes of Tasmania
First it was all about apples…but now the Apple Isle’s contribution to world food extends to premium seafood, cheese, bread, honey, nuts, truffles, stone fruit, craft beer, whisky, gin and intensely flavoured cool-climate wines. Many smaller producers are owned and operated by passionate foodies: Tasmania is seemingly custom-built for a driving holiday spent shunting between these farm-gate suppliers, boozy cellar doors and niche provedores. After you’ve sampled the produce, book a table at a top restaurant and see how the local chefs transform it.

Cape Bruny Lighthouse , Bruny Island | TSVIBRAV / GETTY IMAGES ©

Why I love Tasmania
By Charles Rawlings-Way, Writer
I spent my childhood in Hobart, wheeling my bike between the beach and the bush. It was the ’70s, man – Tasmania was a magical, laid-back place to be a kid. Like so many other islanders, I was lured away in my 20s by the mainland big smoke – but I return to the small smoke as often as possible, and am thrilled to see MONA firing Tasmania’s cultural scene and turning the world’s understanding of the island on its head. Not to mention the beer, the wine, the whisky… Who’s for a drink?
For more about our writers
Tasmania’s Top 15

MONA
The brainchild of Hobart philanthropist David Walsh, the Museum of Old & New Art ( MONA ;) has turned the Australian art world on its head. Subversive, confronting, funny and downright weird, this is art for grown-ups. Give yourself half a day to explore the darkened underground galleries. Laugh, be appalled, be turned on, then have a glass of wine…there’s nothing quite like it anywhere else in the country. To get here, catch a ferry upriver from the Hobart waterfront and eyeball the museum, carved out of a sandstone headland like a vast rusty bunker, from the water.

MONA/RÉMI CHAUVIN. IMAGE COURTESY MONA, MUSEUM OF OLD AND NEW ART, HOBART ©

Top Experiences
Three Capes Track
An epic trail on the Tasman Peninsula southeast of Hobart, the Three Capes Track takes hikers on a four-day, 46km cliff-top tour. From the Port Arthur Historic Site a boat takes walkers to see Cape Raoul, before you hit the trail to Cape Pillar, Cape Hauy and around the coast to Fortescue Bay, with a bus ride back to Port Arthur to end your adventure. Accommodation en route is in architect-designed huts that are almost as good-looking as the eye-popping coastal scenery.

Cape Raoul | CATHERINE SUTHERLAND / LONELY PLANET ©

Top Experiences
Hobart
Hobart – Australia’s southernmost state capital and home to around 227,000 Tasmanians – has come into its own in the last decade. Affordable airfares, internet exposure and the arrival of the astonishing MONA have really put Hobart on the map, and put a spring in the city’s collective step. Don’t miss history-rich Battery Point, the Saturday-morning Salamanca Market, a tour of Cascade Brewery, a trip up the leafy (and in winter, snowy) flanks of kunanyi/Mt Wellington and a beer at a harbourside pub.

Salamanca Market | CHRISTIAN KOBER / GETTY IMAGES ©

Top Experiences
Freycinet National Park
Gin-clear water, blindingly white beaches and pink-granite headlands splashed with flaming-orange lichen – Freycinet National Park is a painterly natural domain. It’s also home to Tasmania’s most photographed beach: Wineglass Bay. Sweat it out on the climb to the lookout above the bay, then descend to the sand and dunk yourself under the waves. Escape the camera-clutching crowds on the three-day Freycinet Peninsula Circuit, or explore the peninsula on a cruise, in a kayak or from the air. Luxe accommodation awaits at the end of the day.

Friendly Beaches | ROWENA ENGLISH / 500PX ©

Top Experiences
Port Arthur Historic Site
Tasmania’s number-one tourist drawcard, the Port Arthur Historic Site is a compelling mix of gorgeous coastal scenery and the sombre legacy of the past – engrossing, quiet and disquieting. Take a guided tour to understand the site’s grand layout before exploring in depth the separate ruined buildings and constructions. While Port Arthur’s overall scale impresses, it’s the personal histories of the former prisoners that leave the strongest impression. Visit the Isle of the Dead Cemetery and the Point Puer Boys’ Prison to uncover the most poignant memories.

JEJIM / SHUTTERSTOCK ©

Top Experiences
Cradle Mountain & the Overland Track
A precipitous comb of rock carved out by millenniums of ice and wind, Cradle Mountain is Tasmania’s most recognisable mountain peak. For unbelievable panoramas over Tasmania’s alpine heart, take the all-day hike (and boulder scramble) to the summit and back. Or you can stand in awe below and fill your camera with perfect mountain views across Dove Lake. Then, if you’re feeling really intrepid, the Overland Track, Tasmania’s legendary six-day alpine hike, kicks off from here.

Dove Lake | CATHERINE SUTHERLAND / LONELY PLANET ©

Top Experiences
Larapuna/Bay of Fires
Licked by azure ocean and embraced by eucalypt forests and granite headlands, the larapuna/Bay of Fires is arguably Tasmania’s most scenic slice of coastline. To the south, Binalong Bay is perfect for surf or a rough-and-tumble swim, and has dive sites full of crayfish and abalone. Mt William National Park in the north i