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Travel guide – great southern touring route

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Overview

From Melbourne one of the most popular self-drive routes for tourists to follow is the circular Great Southern Touring Route, which includes spectacular scenery and takes in some of Victoria’s most beautiful, scenic and cultural attractions. The route hugs the coastline going south along the Great Ocean Road, renowned for its coastal scenery, passing lush Otways rainforests and on to the magnificent limestone rock sculptures known as the Twelve Apostles. It continues along the Shipwreck Coast, a stretch that has claimed 80 ships in the past 40 years. The route then winds north to the rugged wilderness and soaring mountain ranges of the Grampians National Park. East, as one heads back towards Melbourne, is the enchanting Victorian city of Ballarat and the Goldfields region.

Climate

Most of the state is in the warm and temperate band of the south east corner of Australia with warm and dry summers and cool, wet winters; however temperatures can vary widely. The Australian Alps in the northeast have snow from June to September, while the eastern highlands, Gippsland and the Otway Ranges to the west receive the heaviest rainfall. Melbourne has a variable climate that is well known for its four-seasons-in-a-day weather patterns, but generally June and July are the coldest months, January and February are the hottest, and October is the wettest time of year.

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