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Adelaide is one Australian city where anyone who loves enjoying the good life in style, will uncover secrets to take away, taste and treasure. What impressed me most was the fact that within 90 minutes travel hotels tampa florida from the city, you could be scaling a spectacular coastline or exploring an island wildlife haven…. bungy jumping, hot air balooning over the vineyards or even sailing in the midst of sand dunes and even better – discovering the caves and rocks of this amazingly varied landscape.
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Adelaide prides itself on style, elegance and high-energy arts. With just over one million residents, it stages an arts festival which the world agrees is among the top three – and the best by far in Australia. The city is also the nation's largest selection of quality performance spaces and specialist venues.
The most grand of Adelaide's major thoroughfares is the North Terrace. This is the cultural heart of the city and a "must do" on your tour itinerary. It's a trip through some of the best treasures and stories of the world – and a way of quickly getting to know this amazing place. North Terrace is exactly 1 mile (1.6 Kms) long and can be walked easily, but there will be plenty of diversions.
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For the connoisseurs of art, the Jam Factory Contemporary Craft and Design Centre welcomes visitors to tour its studios which produce artworks, fashion, furniture and gifts in metal, glass, wood and ceramics. Ever seen glassblowing – the red hot blob being transformed into a thing of beauty ? Now is your chance. The excellent retail gallery is a must visit site.
Like in India, the contemporary dance performance hotels tampa florida and classical music is particularly strong here – being home to the Australian Dance Theatre and Leigh Warren and Dancers, plus the Adelaide Chamber Orchestra, Adelaide Chamber hotels tampa florida Orchestra, Australian String Quartet and Adelaide Symphony Orchestra among others.
Adelaide's historic East End is the city's most vibrant and cosmopolitan precinct. Transformed over the past decade from its historic function as Adelaide's wholesale fruit and vegetable markets, the East End blends blends this heritage with a dynamic café and dining culture, united with unique retail shops, mainstream Art House and IMAX cinemas, hotels, offices, multimedia centers hotels tampa florida and a burgeoning inner city residential population.
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The Gouger Street is a wonderful meeting of venues, cultures and cuisines. The market is admired worldwide for its unique qualities and character. The street is renowned for fresh produce and gourmet foods are irresistible – and so are its cafes, coffee shops and noodle bars where the whole of Adelaide passes through.
Politicians, painters, musicians, tourists and office workers dine and do their shopping along with chefs, lawyers, storeowners, writers and families. Its also the place where chefs buy their special clogs. Just outside the main market is the principal dining strip with a great spread of world cuisines including classical French to Argentinean, Vietnamese and Thai. It also ha sits share of seafood restaurants and cafes.
The scene is set as you climb the hill with your back to the city. Fine grand mansions, prestigious apartments and well kept cottages nestle among the well established trees and gardens of this up market suburb.
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Coastal Adelaide is conspicuous by its distinctive landscape with estuarine environments, extensive sand dunes, off shore reef system and geologically significant cliffs, will provide you with something of interest with each bend of the coastal road.
Many kilometers of continuous metropolitan beach brings hotels tampa florida all of Adelaide within easy reach of the sea. Broken into 4 distinct sections, the coast offers a maritime hotels tampa florida history, recreational fun and ecological wonders.
The St.Kilda Mangrove trail is a "must visit" site. Here you can meander through the mysterious tidal world of the mangrove forest on a 1.7 Kms boardwalk. The nearby Greenfields Wetlands covers 42 hectares of low-lying saline land and has been developed into storm water detention basin and wetlands habitat and is home to 150 species of birds.
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Anyone who swims at Christies Beach, walks the Tjilbruke Trail, launches a boat at O'Sullivan Beach, surfs at Moana, visits the underwater trails at Port Noarlunga or simply watches the sunset over Witton Bluff will know and appreciate the value of Adelaide's coastline.
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For tourists, it's the perfect tasting territory …. Scenic drives, friendly welcome at the cellar door, lunch at the winery perhaps or nearby restaurant…. And the chance to buy what is increasingly becoming recognized overseas as some of the world's hotels tampa florida best wines. The villages are dotted about the ranges and you can understand the character which goes into each bottle hotels tampa florida – especially if you are lucky enough to meet the winemaker themselves on a tour.
It is reported that Queen Victoria received a celebrated hock wine from the region in 1845 and exports were established from here. This wine came from Echunga – equally famous for its gold mine. Who knows if the winemaker knew he had struck a rich seam with his plantings.
Today the Sauvignon Blanc and Riesling from the Lenswood area are highly regarded and the Chardonnay from Chain of Ponds has helped create the up market "White Grange" Yattarna label. The whites are judged fragrant and vivid and the reds – the Pinot Noir, Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot particularly – judged fine and elegant.
At Cleland you can wonder freely among Kangaroos, Wallabies, Emus and Waterfowl and meet a Koala. Enjoy a night walk or Aboriginal trail. Morialta and Para Wirra offer fabulous bushwalking and Hallett Cove offers dramatic coastal views.
As far as gardens are concerned, Adelaide is set in the middle of Parklands and its surrounding areas offer an amazing selection of experiences ….dreamily romantic rose gardens, fountains and avenues of fragrant blossoms…and even a tall rainforest are just minutes away from the city center.
The real city's elegant Botanic Gardens hotels tampa florida with rare flowers, fountains, cool green sanctuaries and a historic Palm House offers refreshing recreational avenues for the jaded traveler. The Adelaide-Himeji Garden recreates a classical Japanese setting and a Linear Park, you can cycle or walk from the hills, through the city to the ocean…while the Open Garden Scheme presents more than 60 private hotels tampa florida gardens to the public.
Self Drive tours are increasingly being preferred by the discerning international traveler. It is easy to hire a car and follow the suggested itineraries in the publication – "Adelaide Self Drive Touring Itineraries and Map, From the Hills to the Sea". It includes map-referenced and themed itineraries, including adventure, antique, arts, food and wine, heritage, parks and gardens.
hotels tampa florida This being my first visit to Australia and the fact that I am a wine buff, I was advised by the Tourist Information Center at Adelaide to embark on a 190 Kms. drive that would take me through the best parts of the Barossa and Eden Valleys. And I must tell you….this is wine buff heaven! Points of interest hotels tampa florida enroute included the Big Rocking Horse at Gumeracha, the National Motor Museum at Birdwood, the Collingrove Homestead and the Bethany Art Craft Gallery in Angaston. And of course the cellar hotels tampa florida doors beckoned everywhere.
This is a lovely drive of just under 290 Kms. from Adelaide to McLaren Vale and Lang
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