Yarra Valley Wine Tours from Melbourne
The Yarra Valley is about an hour from Melbourne. Half and full-day tours taste wine at estates such as Chandon, Rochford and Yering, with gin, cheese and chocolate stops.
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Day trips from Melbourne follow the Great Ocean Road to the 12 Apostles, watch the Penguin Parade on Phillip Island or taste wine in the Yarra Valley, about an hour from the city.
The Yarra Valley is about an hour from Melbourne. Half and full-day tours taste wine at estates such as Chandon, Rochford and Yering, with gin, cheese and chocolate stops.
Most tours take 12 to 13 hours along the coast road to the 12 Apostles and Loch Ard Gorge, with stops at Apollo Bay, the Otway rainforest and koalas in the wild.
Phillip Island is about 2 hours from Melbourne. Tours end at sunset with the Penguin Parade, when little penguins come ashore, after the Nobbies, koalas or the seal colony.
The Grampians are about 3 hours west of Melbourne. Full-day tours walk to MacKenzie Falls and the Balconies, look out from Boroka Lookout and see kangaroos at Halls Gap.
The Mornington Peninsula is about 90 minutes from Melbourne. Tours bathe at Peninsula Hot Springs, taste wine at local estates or ride the Arthurs Seat gondola to its views.
Sovereign Hill recreates a gold-rush town in Ballarat, about 90 minutes from Melbourne. Tours add gold panning, a mine tour, the Botanical Gardens or the Eureka Centre.
Winter tours to Lake Mountain, Melbourne's closest snow resort about 2 hours away, with snow play and tobogganing, then Steavenson Falls and the Yarra Valley Chocolaterie.
Small-group day trips to Wilsons Promontory National Park, mainland Australia's southernmost point, with Squeaky Beach, Tidal River and the Mount Oberon summit walk.
Puffing Billy is a heritage steam train through the forests of the Dandenong Ranges, about an hour from Melbourne. Tours pair the ride with penguins, wineries or Healesville.
Tours of 2 to 5 days from Melbourne: the Great Ocean Road with the Grampians, the coast road all the way to Adelaide, or a paddle down the Murray River.
Daylesford and Hepburn Springs are Victoria's spa country. Tours walk Vincent Street and Lake Daylesford and add a lavender farm, Hanging Rock or Mount Macedon.
The Bellarine Peninsula lies across Port Phillip Bay. Go by ferry to Portarlington and cycle the coastal trail, or circle the bay by coach via Geelong and Queenscliff.
