Wendouree

Worth seeing in and around Wendouree

6 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

1. 01
   Ballarat Botanical Gardens

   The Ballarat Botanical Gardens Reserve, located on the western shore of picturesque Lake Wendouree, in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, covers an area of 40 hectares which is divided into three distinct zones. The central Botanical Gardens reserve in the 'gardenesque' style of the Victorian pleasure garden.

   1.6 km · botanical garden in Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Lake Wendouree

   Lake Wendouree is an artificially created and maintained shallow urban lake located adjacent to the suburb of the same name in the city of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. The name Wendouree comes from a local Aboriginal word wendaaree which means 'go away': a story is told that when settler William Cross Yuille asked a local Indigenous woman what the name of the swamp was, that was her reply.

   2.2 km · lake near the city of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial

   The Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial was dedicated on Friday, 6 February 2004. It is located on the southern approaches to the Ballarat Botanical Gardens, on Wendouree Parade and adjacent to Lake Wendouree.

   2.4 km · war memorial in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Friends of the Anson Air Museum

   Friends of the Anson Air Museum is an Australian aviation museum located in Ballarat, Victoria. It is housed in the gym of the former Royal Australian Air Force base at what is now Ballarat Airport.

   3.4 km · aviation museum · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Ballarat Tramway Museum

   The Ballarat Tramway Museum is an operating tramway museum, located in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. The museum is run by volunteers and has a fleet of trams which operate on part of the original horse tramway around Lake Wendouree and the Botanical Gardens.

   2.2 km · museum operating old trams in Ballarat, Victoria · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Eureka Stadium

   Eureka Stadium is an Australian rules football and cricket stadium located in the Victorian suburb of Wendouree, 2.9 km north of the Ballarat city centre. It is part of the Eureka Sports Precinct.

   2.4 km · Sports stadium in Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia

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What Wikivoyage says to see

1. 01
   Art Gallery of Ballarat

   40 Lydiard Street North, fax: +61 3 5320 5791.

2. 02
   Ballarat Botanical Gardens
3. 03
   Ballarat Tramway Museum

   The museum operates a fleet of historic trams along 1.3 km of original track through the Ballarat Botanical Gardens.

4. 04
   Ballarat Wildlife Park

   Corner York and Fussell Streets, Ballarat East, fax: +61 3 5333 4025, info@wildlifepark.com.au.

5. 05
   Museum of Australian Democracy at Eureka
6. 06
   Kryal Castle

   A replica medieval castle situated just eight kilometres out of Ballarat on the Western Freeway.

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Things to do

1. 01
   Begonia Festival
2. 02
   Ballarat Heritage Weekend
3. 03
   Eureka Stadium

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Where to eat

Crazy Asian, 107 Bridge Mall. Good value Chinese, Indian and Thai. L'espresso, 417 Sturt St,. Formally a music store, this place serves some of the best coffee in town, along with quality Italian-based fare that is interesting and reasonably priced. Choose a CD from the wall to listen to, and try the housemade icecream. Eureka Pizza & Bistro, 316 Sturt St. Italian institution.

From Wikivoyage: Wendouree, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Getting to Wendouree

Airports

Melbourne Avalon (AVV), 80 km · Melbourne (MEL), 91 km

Stations

Ballarat Airfield, 3.6 km · Ballarat Aviation Museum, 3.6 km

• Geelong/Melbourne → Wendouree

  109 km · quickest by road, 2h 23m · A$15–20
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• Melbourne → Wendouree

  105 km · quickest by road, 2h 17m · A$14–19
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• Adelaide → Wendouree

  551 km · quickest by air, 8h 17m · A$360–520
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