10 best places to visit in Armenia | A Complete Tour Guide | Travel Video
10 best places to visit in Armenia | A Complete Tour Guide | Travel Video
Explore the hidden gems of Armenia with our complete guide to the top 10 places to visit in Armenia. From the vibrant city of Yerevan to the ancient Garni Temple and breathtaking Lake Sevan, we'll take you on a journey through the best of Armenia.
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Europe's Best Affordable Ski Resorts
The ultimate challenge: the soaring costs of a ski trip. We've scouted out well-sized ski areas where a six-day lift pass during high season costs less than €275, ensuring budget travelers can still chase their winter dreams.
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Reviewing the V/Line VLocity | Melbourne to Ararat by train
Find out what it's like to travel on the workhorse of Victoria's regional rail network, the VLocity.
The V/Line VLocity is a modern diesel multiple unit (DMU), which first entered service in 2005. There are now more than 90 three-car sets in operation with more in production.
In this video, I take you on a journey along the scenic line to Ballarat via Bacchus Marsh, before heading across the plains to Ararat.
We look at some of the quirks of the route. The section of line between Ballarat and Ararat closed in 1994 when the main Adelaide to Melbourne line was standardised but via a longer route via North Geelong. Passenger services were reintroduced on the broad gauge line to Ararat in 2004.
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00:00 Introduction
01:12 The VLocity and the V/Line fleet
02:00 Boarding and seats
02:50 Departure and crew announcement
04:05 Route map and Ballarat line stats
05:30 Melton to Bacchus Marsh
06:55 Horseshoe curve and climb to Ballan
08:50 Reaching top speed
09:50 Sunset near Ballarat
10:15 Approaching Ballarat
12:20 Ballarat to Wendouree
13:40 VLocity train tour
15:15 Lake Burrumbeet and line speed analysis
16:15 Broad gauge vs standard gauge route
16:55 Beaufort
18:15 VLocity mobile phone signal issue
18:52 Fares to Ararat
19:20 Overall thoughts
20:05 Arrival into Ararat
22:02 Ararat Railway Station and local history
23:18 The Overland preview
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Bendigo, State of Victoria, Australia - Unravel Travel TV
Bendigo is a major regional city in the State of Victoria, Australia, located very close to the geographical centre of the state and is approximately 150 kilometres (93 mi) north west of the state capital Melbourne. Bendigo is a vibrant contemporary regional centre, boasting beautiful streets created from one of the world's greatest gold rushes. Every visit will reveal new surprises and experiences. With the gusto of a gold-seeking miner, the people who live here are creating fascinating products, services and stories that add to the richness of the region's boom time past. It is an ever-changing feast to be explored. Nearby Heathcote has not missed the beat with artisans of food, wine and art flocking to be part of the action.
Wide streets lined by opulent buildings are now interwoven with intriguing laneways and arcades that are home to a new breed of innovators who again delve deep to create a vibrant energy across the city. Modern day Bendigo has sublime food, wine and shopping experiences against a stunning heritage backdrop.
Bendigo's action-packed events calendar is a mix of long-standing traditions, food and wine events, car rallies, sporting excellence and a great sense of fun. Since the gold boom times of 1871, the local Chinese community have come together to add Chinese dragons, regalia and startling crackers to Australia's longest continuous festival -- the Bendigo Easter Festival.
A magnificent gold rush put Bendigo on the map more than 150 years ago. Tents came first and then with the wealth from the gold came elaborately designed homes, public buildings and monuments that are still used today. Once people came from around the world to prospect for gold and forge a new beginning. Today a similar exuberance has again put Bendigo on the map as an innovative city. Recent success stories include the expansion of Bendigo Bank, Jimmy Possum and Fernwood Fitness across Australia. An exciting energy has reshaped the towns and villages of Central Victoria.
Every corner you turn in Bendigo reveals another living treasure; another vivid reminder of the city's glorious and heady past -- whether it is the outrageous opulence of a boomtown hotel, or the simple piety of a wooden church. The best 19th century cities combine grant scale and fine detail and there are few better than Bendigo.
Many of Victoria's cities and towns owe their origins to the gold rushes of the 19th century and Bendigo is one of them. Gold was no temporary lure to this city located right in the centre of Victoria -- its attractions were more than just skin deep. In fact there was very little gold on the surface at all. Most of it was far underground in rich quartz reefs stretching out over 3,600 hectares around the city.
The gold rush began in 1851 when the first diggers rushed to the Bendigo fields and continued until 1954 when the last winch on the city's last gold mine raised its last bucket of ore. In recent years mining for gold has re-commenced deep under Bendigo and continues today. During the city's first golden century, Bendigo became a melting pot with its own unique ethnic character -- the Irish at St Killians, the Cornish at Long Gully and the Germans at Ironbark Gully. These groups were just some of the many communities that helped to build Bendigo.
German architects W C Vahland and Robert Getzschmann, along with Bendigo born William Beebe, were responsible for many of the city's finest buildings. One of the most enduring and distinctive contributions was made by the Chinese. Bendigo's Chinese heritage is well represented to this day, with the Historic Joss House and the Golden Dragon Museum and Classical Chinese Gardens.
The influence of the gold rush can be felt in the very fabric of the city. Bendigo owes its broad and regular boulevards to the ambitious town plan prepared in 1854. Other streets follow the paths beaten by fossickers as they followed gullies and leads in search of gold. The city's ostentatious public buildings and gardens attest to the flamboyance of the gold rush era. So do the richly decorated privates homes.
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Ararat, Victoria and Region, Australian Travel Video Guide
Learn about what tourism activities one can do around the Ararat Region.
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All the people featured in this video, including hosts Jarrod and Karina live in the region.
Featured in this video are: The Gum San Chinese Heritage Centre, Jward, Lake Bolac Eel Festival, Neil Murray, Grampians Lavender Patch, Vines Cafe, Langi Ghiran Winery, Jillian Wines, Blaze Rock Retreat, Moyston Tom Wills Monument, Chalambar Golf Club and Grampians Soaring Club.
Thank you to David Nicholson for providing footage of the Lake Bolac Eel Festival.
Ararat - Green Hills Lake Slideshow Victoria Australia
Ararat is a city in south-west Victoria, Australia, about 198 kilometres (120 mi) west of Melbourne, on the Western Highway on the eastern slopes of the Ararat Hills and Cemetery Creek valley between Victoria's Western District and the Wimmera. Its urban population according to 2021 census is 8,500 and services the region of 11,880 residents across the Rural City's boundaries. It is also the home of the 2018/19 GMGA Golf Championship Final.
It is the largest settlement in the Rural City of Ararat local government area and is the administrative centre.
The discovery of gold in 1857 during the Victorian gold rush transformed it into a boomtown which continued to prosper until the turn of the 20th century, after which it has steadily declined in population. It was proclaimed as a city on 24 May 1950. After a decline in population over the 1980s and 90s, there has been a small but steady increase in the population, and it is the site of many existing and future, large infrastructure projects, including the Hopkins Correctional Facility development project.
It is named after Mount Ararat 10 kilometres south-west of the town which was named by politician/pastoralist Horatio Wills in 1841.
Ararat is the only city in Australia to be founded by Chinese people
Exploring Ararat, Victoria: Sunset walking Tour
After checking in at the Acacia caravan park I took the dog for a sunset walk to explore the regional Victorian town of Ararat and some of it's historic buildings with a variety of architecture from the 1860s to the 1930s.
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Ararat, the Australian Town founded by Chinese! Pt.1
This was a project I did for the ABC (Australian National Broadcaster) in 2004. It was done in flash format as bandwidth couldn't handle video back then. This is the first of a four part series that follows the fortunes of the country town of my birth. As flash is about to become obsolete, I decided to convert it to a movie format, to save it as a historical archive.
Ararat is not much different from a hundred other small country towns you may pass through to get from one place to another. Next time you stop over for a break, spare a thought for Ararat's rich history.
Ararat got it's name when the rather poetic explorer Horatio Wills proclaimed to his travel party, on choosing a nearby mountain on which to camp, We will call it Mount Ararat, for like the Ark we rested here
It wasn't until the chance finding of gold, by 700 traveling Chinese, some 17 years later in 1857, that the township of Ararat was born. People from all over Australia, and for that matter the world, rushed to the local area in the hope of making their fortune. Many, like my own Irish ancestors stayed on to become farmers long after golden dreams ran dry.
So stay a while, grab a drink and watch the movie, and learn a little about my Town .
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Ararat Victoria Australia Slideshow HD 1080p
Our road trip to Hamilton Victoria Australia via Ararat. This is an update of the original slideshow of Ararat shared last year, with improvements and some new photos.
Three weeks in Ararat, Vic
I was making my way towards Mildura, with the plan of going to the Mungo Mungo national park. When I got to Ararat, I found out Mildura was still inaccessible because of all the water and many closed roads. The only options I had was to head back to Melbourne or stay in Ararat until things improved. Ichose to stay in Ararat. In this video I show you a little of Ararat and surrounds
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This week we travel in our converted Ford transit campervan, to Ararat, Victoria Australia. Ararat is a city in southwest Victoria, Australia, about 198 kilometers west of Melbourne, on the Western Highway on the eastern slopes of the Ararat Hills and Cemetery Creek valley between Victoria's Western District and the Wimmera.
Our visit was to Ararat J Ward prison, where we got permission to take out cavoodle Twyla on a tour of the prison. The J Ward began as a prison for the goldfields in 1859 and when the gold ran out in the 1880s it was taken over by the Lunacy Department to house the criminally insane. Over the following century, it was home to some of the most dangerous men in Victoria. On the tour, we got to see inside prison cells and how the prisoners lived behind the big bluestone walls. Twyla seemed to sense ghosts in parts of the prison. In our footage, you can see orbs flying around. We’ll leave it up to you to decide if they were spirits. The prison and the J Ward Mental Asylum run ghost tours, where you are taken back in time.
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ARARAT & BEAUFORT, VICTORIA / FREE CAMPING AT GREENHILL LAKE / J WARD LUNATIC ASYLUM / VANLIFE
This week we travel in our converted Ford transit campervan, to free camp at Green Hill Lake, in Ararat, Victoria Australia. We were lucky enough to meet another camper Michelle, who gave us a van tour of her 50s vintage Airstream caravan, which she purchased and brought it back to life. The refurbishment looked just as amazing inside as it did outside.
Airstream is an American brand of caravan easily recognized by the distinctive shape of its rounded and polished aluminum coachwork.
We got a fantastic free camping spot right in front of Green Hill Lake. In the morning we headed into Ararat and had a look around town.
Ararat is a city in southwest Victoria, Australia, about 198 kilometers west of Melbourne, on the Western Highway on the eastern slopes of the Ararat Hills and Cemetery Creek valley between Victoria's Western District and the Wimmera.
After exploring the town, we visited Ararat Lunatic Asylum, where we took a walk around the grounds. The atmosphere felt spooky with s sense of eeriness – even though it was during the day. As there were no day tours, we then headed back into Ararat.
Our next stop was at Ararat J Ward prison, where we got permission to take out cavoodle Twyla on a tour of the prison. The J Ward began as a prison for the goldfields in 1859 and when the gold ran out in the 1880s it was taken over by the Lunacy Department to house the criminally insane. Over the following century, it was home to some of the most dangerous men in Victoria. On the tour, we got to see inside prison cells and how the prisoners lived behind the big bluestone walls. Twyla seemed to sense ghosts in parts of the prison. In our footage, you can see orbs flying around. We’ll leave it up to you to decide if they were spirits. The prison and the J Ward Mental Asylum run ghost tours, where you are taken back in time.
On the way home, we drove past the annual ‘Grampians Ride to Remember’ motorbike tribute ride. At this event, the community comes together to ride their motorcycles starting from Ararat and around the Grampians region. The ride raises money for the Victoria Police Blue Ribbon Foundation. The event has a few hundred participants.
Our last stop on the way home was for breakfast in the town of Beaufort, Victoria. For a small town, they had many cafes and interesting old buildings from 1870s.
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Victoria/Australia [ Grampians National Park, Stawell,Ararat,Ballarat] backpacking # 11
Victoria/Australia [ Grampians National Park, Stawell,Ararat,Ballarat]
Backpacking Australia # 11 takes us to the province of Victoria, Grampians National Park and the City's of Stawell,Ararat and Ballarat.
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Ararat, Australia's Golden Town Dies! Pt.2
What does a Town do when both its major public and private sector employers close shop around the same time?
The town dies, people leave in the search for work, the community is destroyed and its people demoralized.
This is what happened to Ararat in the early 1990's.
All up, roughly one thousand public sector jobs were lost from the closure of the Psychiatric Hospital, the Railways and Telecom.
A downturn in manufacturing was also the deathknell for the town's biggest private sector employer, Packard/CTA.
Watch this short documentary to learn how the town was affected
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Ararat Goldfields
Ararat is the next city out of Melbourne after Ballarat at about 160 km north west. It has lots of old buildings but not to the extent of Ballarat .Alexandra park along side a pond has the old j ward above it and the old hospital buildings further west there is an old chinese places with things from the gold rush
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Morwell has a population of approximately 13,770 people. It is both the seat of local government and administrative center for the City of Latrobe.
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Ararat, Victoria - The Bush Spirit that keeps the country going!
Aussies in the Bush are an ingenious bunch, making the most of every opportunity. Without rural entrepreneurs many country towns would lose their lifeblood.
Mark Shea looked at three success stories ranging from manufacturing to farming.
A presentation of three successful rural businesses, and all three used different methods to achieve success. Value Adding - Every lambing season there is a loss. Some lambs won't survive their first days. Seizing an opportunity, Ben and Simon Greene set up a business collecting dead lambs, removing their skins, and selling them overseas where they are transformed into gloves, vests, and kiddie's toys. They employ up to seven local people in the process. Niche Markets - Globalization has put great strains on the Australian manufacturing industry. We just can't compete with Asia's cheaper wage rates. Unless of course, as Peter Carthew did, you cater for a niche. After the collapse of Packard/CTA (as seen in 'Death of a Country Town'), Peter brushed himself off and set up AME Systems with twenty seven of his best employees. In a truly inspirational story of success, Peter has turned AME Systems into a $27.5 million dollar business employing two hundred and seventy staff. He has done this by catering for the Australian truck industry. The Aussie environment is tough on trucks and the electrical harnesses AME Systems build, stand tall when put to the test. Diversification - The hardships the Australian wool industry has faced for the last ten years with drought and low prices, has decimated stock numbers. The true believers who have kept their breeding stock, have done so at great economic cost. But out of this hardship has come ingenuity and new opportunities. Shelley and Alan Green had a sheep property that required them to both work off farm in order to make a living. They loved the farm and wanted to find a way to make it sustainable. Taking a huge risk they went into free range eggs, something new to the district. After a long period of working seven days a week, things are looking rosy for the Greens. They are just about to double production and can now afford to put on a manager and have a much needed Queensland holiday.
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Hamilton is a thriving regional centre in the Southern Grampians with stunning gardens, well-preserved historic buildings and exciting street art. It is located 229 km west of Melbourne via Ballarat. A short drive from Hamilton, you can explore waterfalls and lava caves.
00:00 Introduction
00:32 Hamilton
01:18 Botanic Gardens
02:12 Lake Hamilton
02:49 Sir Reginald Ansett Transport Museum
03:10 Hamilton Gallery
03:35 Nigretta Falls
04:00 Byaduk Cave
05:16 Wannon Falls
You can enjoy brightly coloured murals and exciting sculptures as you wander around the town centre. There are also wonderful historic buildings, including the Court House, Post Office, Mechanics Institute, Churches and lovely houses.
Wander around the Botanic Gardens with sweeping lawns, towering trees and an ornamental lake. It is one of Victoria’s most intact 19th-century Botanic Gardens.
Lake Hamilton, surrounded by parkland, is popular for fishing, sailing, and walking and has a fantastic Adventure Playground.
Discover The Sir Reginald Ansett Transport Museum and the Hamilton Art Gallery while visiting Hamilton.
Attractions near Hamilton
Nigretta Falls
Nigretta Falls is formed by the Wannon River cascading 25 metres down the rocky cliff. There is a viewing area at the top, and a short walk down a set of steps brings you to the base of the falls.
Byaduk Caves
Byaduk Caves were formed by lava flow from Mount Napier. There is a track on the surface to view the four caves, and you can climb into Harmans 1 to explore this incredible cave.
Wannon Falls
Wannon Falls is a punchbowl waterfall that plunges 30 metres over the edge of a basalt lava cliff and into the river below. The viewing platform is a short walk from the picnic area and carpark.
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Ararat Rural City of Orchids
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Attractions :
J-Ward for the criminally insane
Regional Art Gallery
Ararat Railway Museum
Orchid display in Glasshouse
Gum San Chinese Heritage Centre
Langi Morgala Museum