Silo Art Trail - 7 DAY FULLY INCLUSIVE TOUR 6th May - 12th May, 2020 - O'Shannessy's Quality Tours
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Silo Art Trail 7 DAY FULLY INCLUSIVE TOUR 6th May - 12th May, 2020
Silo Art Trail
WEDNESDAY 6TH MAY TO TUESDAY 12TH MAY, 2020
Join us on a tour of this iconic Outback Town. It really has some hidden gems to see and
discover. We'll explore the magnificent Silver City Mint and Art Centre displaying original
paintings by some well known Artists including Peter Anderson’s "Big Picture". A highlight
of the tour! Other features include Silverton and the Living Desert Sculpture Symposium,
Beautiful Lake Menindee, Pro Harts Gallery, The Sunraysia Inland Botanic Gardens and the
Silo Art Trail. New attractions include Halls Gap Zoo and the Grampians.
TOUR HIGHLIGHTS
Menindee - Kinchega National Park
Charlton
Sunraysia District - Australian Inland
Mallee Region
Botanic Garden
Mildura
Silo Art Trail
Broken Hill
Patchewollock Silo - “Silo Man”
Silver City Mint and Art Centre
Hopetoun
Royal Flying Doctor Base
Brim Silo - “Quartet of Farmers”
Locally Guided Tour Broken Hill
Sheep Hills Silo - “depiction of Wergaia
Line of Lode
and Wotjobaluk people”
Miners Memorial
Rupanyup Silo - local football and
Pro Hart Gallery
netball players.
Silverton Pub
Halls Gap Zoo
The Living Desert Reserve -
Grampians National Park
Sculpture Symposium
Ararat
MULTIPLE NIGHT STAYS
3 nights in Broken Hill
COACH
As a thank you for travelling with O’Shannessy’s Quality Tours, you will automatically
receive a saving on the total tour price for your second and subsequent tours.
O’Shannessy’s Quality Tours will match single travellers who wish to twin share with
another single traveller of the same gender. However, if this is not possible, you shall be
provided with single accommodation at the twin share fare (no additional cost).
TOUR INCLUSIONS Complimentary chauffeur driven transfers. Pick up from and return to your home from Greater Melbourne, Bendigo, Torquay, Ballarat, Geelong, the Bellarine and Mornington Peninsulas, selected areas of Gippsland and Phillip Island. O’Shannessy’s Quality Tours Touring Coach. Travel by O’Shannessy’s Quality Tours Luxury Touring Coach. Features include comfortable reclining seats with ample leg room, arm and foot rests, seat belts, large panoramic windows with blinds, overhead parcel shelf, onboard rest room, Road Cam TV Screens which display the view ahead in real time, a kneeling (coach lowering) device, a second door for ease of entry and disembarkation and full air suspension for a smooth and quiet ride. Tour Director. Dedicated O’Shannessy’s Quality Tours coach crew (tour directors) on board to ensure your travel experience is memorable. Best Available Quality Accommodation. Ensuite motel accommodation each night. Attractions. All tours and interest venues as per itinerary. All Meals. Full cooked breakfasts, morning tea and two course restaurant dinners daily, and all lunches. TOUR COSTS Twin Share Room: $2,845 per person Twin Share Repeat Traveller 2 - 10 Tours: $2,795 per person Twin Share Repeat Traveller 11 - 20 Tours: $2,770 per person Twin Share Repeat Traveller 21+ Tours: $2,695 per person Single Room Supplement: $ 435 per person
DAY 1 Wednesday 6th May, 2020
MELBOURNE TO MILDURA
Welcome to our 7 day coach tour to Broken Hill. After we have completed our home pickup
service and boarded the coach, we are ready to go “Beyond the Darling River, on the edge of
the sundown” where they used to say you would find Broken Hill! It is a remote but
fascinating place which was originally established as a mining town. Dominating the town is
the “Line of Lode” – the seven kilometre strip of what was the biggest deposit of silver, lead
and zinc in the world. But there is much more to Broken Hill than mining as we will discover
over the next few days. Our travel today takes us to Charlton and into Victoria’s Mallee
Region and on to Mildura for our first night on tour.
OVERNIGHT: Best Western Chaffey International Motor Inn, MILDURA
DAY 2 Thursday 7th May, 2020
MILDURA TO BROKEN HILL
After a cooked breakfast we join the Silver City Highway and head to Broken Hill – about 3
hours away, stopping enroute for a morning break. We’ll have lunch at one of the popular
clubs before we commence our touring. The Silver City Mint and Art Centre is one of the
best galleries in town featuring jewellery made here from Broken Hill silver, a Broken Hill
mineral display and the dramatic “Big Picture” painted by Peter Anderson. It’s the world’s
largest acrylic painting on canvas that totally immerses visitors into the local landscape. Our
last stop of the day is the Royal Flying Doctor Base. After our tour here we make our way to
our motel in time to freshen up for dinner.
OVERNIGHT: The Desert Sand Motor Inn, BROKEN HILL
DAY 3 Friday 8th May, 2020
BROKEN HILL AND SILVERTON
We’ll tour the town today with the help of a locally based expert. Hear about the history of
Broken Hill and see some of the historic buildings – the Broken Hill Court House built in
1889, the Broken Hill Trades Hall (1898) and the Broken Hill Town Hall Façade. One of the
best views of the town is from the top of the Line of Lode at the Miners Memorial (listing
the names of more than 800 people who have died working at the mine). No visit to Broken
Hill would be complete without a visit to Pro Hart’s Gallery. We farewell our guide and head
to Silverton, a virtual ghost town but a number of the historic buildings remain. It’s also the
site of many well known movies such as Mad Max 2, Wake in Fright and Priscilla Queen of
the Desert. We have lunch at the Silverton Pub before heading west of Broken Hill to The
Living Desert Reserve. Here we’ll see the Sculpture Symposium, created from large pieces of
Wilcannia Sandstone by twelve of the finest sculptors from around the world.
The arrangement of the stones provides one of the most spectacular views in the area.
OVERNIGHT: The Desert Sand Motor Inn, BROKEN HILL
DAY 4 Saturday 9th May, 2020
MENINDEE LAKE
To the south of “The Hill” is Menindee Lake, the historic town of Menindee and the Kinchega
National Park. We take a look at the lakes and the township which acts as an oasis for wildlife
amidst the dry red sand plains of the surrounding semi-arid region. We enjoy lunch at
Maidens Hotel. It was here Burke and Wills camped in 1860, prior to their ill-fated trip to the
Cooper Creek and the Gulf of Carpentaria. We head back to Broken Hill mid-afternoon.
OVERNIGHT: The Desert Sand Motor Inn, BROKEN HILL
DAY 5 Sunday 10th May, 2020
BROKEN HILL TO MILDURA
We farewell our hosts today and start our journey home, retracing our steps as we backtrack
to the Sunraysia District. We visit the Australian Inland Botanic Garden where plants from a
very broad range of latitudes and environments thrive in Sunraysia’s warm, dry climate and
well-drained soils. A large rose garden and a rock garden are among the Gardens’ features
and what better surroundings to enjoy our picnic lunches before a tour of the grounds. We
enjoy some local sightseeing before checking into our accommodation for our last night away.
OVERNIGHT: Best Western Chaffey International Motor Inn, MILDURA
DAY 6 Monday 11th May, 2020
MILDURA - SILO ART TRAIL TO STAWELL
The Wimmera-Mallee region has become Australia’s largest outdoor gallery with the creation
of a Silo Art Trail stretching 200kms and linking some of Victoria’s smallest towns. We follow
this trail, first to Patchewollock, where it is hard to miss the 35m high “silo man” - local sheep
and grain farmer Nick Hulland. We enjoy lunch at the Hopetoun Community Hotel Motel and
take a look at the large and colourful wall mural in the centre of town depicting aspects of
local history and the memorial fountain erected in 1929. Continuing south we arrive in Brim
to view the magnificent work of Guido van Helten, depicting an anonymous multi-
generational quartet of farmers. At Sheep Hills, we see a depiction of Wergaia and
Wotjobaluk Elders alongside two young children. Our final silo visit is in Rupanyup featuring
two local residents, both members of the local Rupanyup Football and Netball Club. After a
very special day we arrive at our motel with time to freshen up before dinner.
OVERNIGHT: Magdala Motor Lodge, STAWELL
DAY 7 Tuesday 12th May, 2020
HOMEWARD BOUND
On our final tour day, we make our way to Halls Gap, situated in the Grampians National
Park. Apart from the stunning scenery the park is a natural oasis where plants and animals,
which have become extinct in other areas, flourish. Here we visit the Halls Gap Zoo. The zoo
is actively involved in breeding & conservation programs for Brush-Tailed Bettongs, Tasmanian
Devils, Bilbys, Bush Stone-Curlews, Quolls and Rock-Wallabies. Sadly, it is time to head home.
We make a stop in Ararat for lunch before driving back to Melbourne to complete a fabulous
tour looking around Victoria!
“... The vibrant colours and perfect light
have drawn film-makers and artists here to
capture its special quality....”
Long term resident of Broken Hill - W Cuy
PAYMENT AND CANCELLATION POLICY
Payment of funds confirms your acceptance of O’Shannessy’s Quality Tours conditions
of travel for this tour. Prices include GST and all taxes.
Balance due on invoice approximately 30 days prior to departure.
Deposit is fully refundable until 31 days prior to departure date
Cancellation 30 to 15 days before tour departure date 75% Refund of Tour Cost
Cancellation 14 to 8 days before tour departure date 50% Refund of Tour Cost
Cancellation 7 to 1 days before tour departure date 25% Refund of Tour Cost
On or after tour date departure No Refund
Travel Insurance is not compulsory, however is highly recommended and available
from our office. Contact us on 1800 354 352 to arrange a quote for you.
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and relaxed atmosphere, where fellow travellers become new found friends.
CONDITIONS OF TRAVEL
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No passenger will be permitted to embark on or continue the tour while their physical or mental condition
is, in the opinion of any representative of O’Shannessy’s Quality Tours, such as to render them incapable
of caring for themselves, or whereby they become objectionable to other passengers, or they become a
hazard to themselves or other passengers. Whilst on tour with O’Shannessy’s Quality Tours should a
passenger require medical attention, discharge papers must be provided to a representative of
O’Shannessy’s Quality Tours before you are able to re-join the tour.
O’Shannessy’s Quality Tours will not be responsible for expenses resulting in such persons being
precluded from completing the tour for any such reason. No refunds or transfers will be given on any
unused portions of the itinerary.
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without the aid of the coach crew or other passengers.
Any passenger who requires assistance for any of the above is required to travel with a companion
capable of providing all necessary assistance.
Passengers who are smokers, have a CPAP machine or snore, unless travelling with a companion, will be
required to pay the single supplement premium for the sole use of a room.
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internet usage, telephone calls, and any optional extras are not included in your tour price.
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