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Tasmania
4 days · 8 things to do
Best time to go: December to April
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Welcome
Tasmania, in a few days
Across the Bass Strait from Melbourne, Tasmania fits the Port Arthur convict site, the underground MONA museum, the orange-lichened granite of the Bay of Fires and Dove Lake below Cradle Mountain onto one island. A fifth of it is World Heritage wilderness, and you can drive for hours without passing a town.
- Day by day
- D1 Day 1 2 things
- D2 Day 2 2 things
- D3 Day 3 2 things
- D4 Day 4 2 things
- Worth sorting before you go
- Words that help
- The practical page
- Packing checklist
The trip
Day by day
Map of the sights (numbers follow the suggested order). It prints with the base map.
D1
Day 1
2 things to do · at your own pace
- Morning · MONA · half a dayGambler David Walsh's private museum, opened in 2011 and dug into a sandstone cliff on the Derwent, with Wim Delvoye's digestion machine among its exhibits.
- Afternoon · kunanyi / Mount Wellington free · about 1 h 30The 1,271-metre mountain above Hobart, whose summit road climbs 22 km from the city to a windswept plateau looking over the Derwent and Bruny Island.
🛏️ Where to sleep · Hotel Grand Chancellor Hobart€120 a night
D2
Day 2
2 things to do · at your own pace
- Morning · Salamanca Market free · 2 to 3 hEvery Saturday since 1972, more than 300 stalls line Salamanca Place below 1830s sandstone warehouses, selling cheese, leatherwood honey, oysters and local whisky.
- Afternoon · Bruny Island · half a dayTwo islands joined by a sandy isthmus called The Neck, twenty minutes by ferry from Kettering, where little penguins come ashore at dusk.
🛏️ Where to sleep · Salamanca Wharf Hotel€150 a night
D3
Day 3
2 things to do · at your own pace
- Morning · Port Arthur · a full dayA penal settlement from 1830 to 1877 that held over 12,500 convicts, its penitentiary, church and Separate Prison set on lawns by a bay.
- Afternoon · Wineglass Bay · 2 to 3 hA 1.5 km curve of white sand below the pink granite Hazards in Freycinet National Park, seen from a lookout 1.5 hours' return walk away.
🛏️ Where to sleep · Hadley's Orient Hotel€140 a night
D4
Day 4
2 things to do · at your own pace
- Morning · Bay of Fires free · half a dayAbout 50 km of north-east coast where orange-lichened granite boulders meet white sand, named in 1773 after Aboriginal fires seen from the sea.
- Afternoon · Cradle Mountain · a full dayA 1,545-metre dolerite peak reflected in Dove Lake, where Gustav Weindorfer built Waldheim chalet in 1912 and campaigned for the area's protection.
🛏️ Where to sleep · Lenna of Hobart€160 a night
Before you go
Worth sorting before you go
📶 eSIM data
Online the moment you land, no roaming bill.
Get one · Holafly
Online the moment you land, no roaming bill.
Get one · Holafly
🛡️ Travel insurance
Health, luggage, cancellation.
Cover it · Ekta
Health, luggage, cancellation.
Cover it · Ekta
💳 Fee-free card
Pay at the real rate, with no exchange markup.
Open one · Revolut
Pay at the real rate, with no exchange markup.
Open one · Revolut
🚐 Airport transfer
A private car at a fixed price from the moment you land.
Book it · GetTransfer
A private car at a fixed price from the moment you land.
Book it · GetTransfer
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Good to know
Flavours & local habits
🍽️ Worth tasting
- Barbecue and seafood: prawns, barramundi and oysters.
- Meat pie: the national snack, eaten standing up.
- Vegemite: a salt yeast paste on toast, spread thin if you want to finish it.
- Lamingtons and pavlova, the two desserts this country argues over.
- Flat white: the coffee this corner of the world gave everyone else.
⚠️ Best avoided
- The sun is harsh: sunscreen, a hat and shade, even under cloud.
- Swim between the flags, and take the current and jellyfish warnings literally.
- Distances are enormous: plan fuel, water and how tired you will be.
- Do not feed the wildlife, and keep your distance from it.
Getting by
Words that help
🗣️ English is the main language here, so there is nothing to learn by heart.
The essentials
The practical page
CurrencyAustralian dollar (AUD)
BudgetAbout €145 a day, mid-range
Best seasonDecember to April
PlugI · 230V
Tap waterSafe to drink
TippingOptional, rounding up is enough
Emergency000
EntryYou need an online authorisation before you fly, applied for with a passport: eVisitor for EU and UK citizens, an ETA for US and Canadian ones, 90 days either way.
HealthNo vaccination required. Keep tetanus and polio up to date; hepatitis A is worth considering if you eat well outside the tourist trail.
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Don't forget
Packing checklist
Have a good trip.
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