~ 5 Day Tour ~ 1st - 5th December, 2017

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1 Friends to travel with... ~ 5 Day Tour ~ 1st - 5th December, 2017 O Shannessy s Sorrento Travel Pty Ltd T/A: 2121 Point Nepean Road, Rye Vic enquiries@oshannessys.com.au Toll Free:

2 Price per person twin share $ 1,820 Repeat clientele twin share $ 1,795 SINGLE SUPPLEMENT $ 275 Tour Departs: Friday 1st December, 2017 Tour Returns: Tuesday 5th December, 2017 Deposit: $200 per person upon booking Balance due on invoice approximately 30 days prior to departure Single travellers who are prepared to twin share will be matched with another passenger (of the same gender) or, if this is not possible, provided with single accommodation at the twin share fare. Tour Price Includes: Pick up from and return to your home - Greater Melbourne, Ballarat, Bendigo, Geelong and the Bellarine and Mornington Peninsulas, Phillip Island and some areas of Gippsland. Travel by our own state of the art luxury coach, equipped with restroom, satellite phone, fold-down arm rests, seat belts and extra leg room. Our coach has a kneeling device and second door for ease of entry and disembarkation. Our coach is also fitted with Road Cam TV monitors which display in real time the road ahead. The coach offers a smooth quiet ride and views through large panoramic windows. Reserved quality ensuite motels / resorts. All tours and interest venues as per itinerary. All meals: Full cooked breakfasts, restaurant dinners, all lunches and morning teas. The following cancellation fees apply for this tour: Deposit refundable until 30 days prior to departure 30 to 15 days BEFORE DEPARTURE 75% Refund of Tour Cost 14 to 8 days BEFORE DEPARTURE 50% Refund of Tour Cost 7 to 1 days BEFORE DEPARTURE 25% Refund of Tour Cost On or after Departure date of Tour NO REFUND GIVEN All passengers are required to co-operate with the seat rotation program determined by O Shannessy s Tour Directors. TRAVEL INSURANCE IS NOT COMPULSORY HOWEVER IS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED AND IS AVAILABLE FROM OUR OFFICE. The Proprietors reserve the right to vary any accommodation, price or other features of the tour at any time at their own discretion.

3 Tour Highlights: 4 Nights in Wagga Wagga Mansfield Wagga Wagga Young Cherry Festival Parade and Carnival Allambie Cherry & Plum Orchards Junee Monte Cristo Junee Liquorice & Chocolate Factory Boggy Creek Show Pioneer Women s Hut Tumbarumba Benalla

4 Day 1: Friday 1st December, 2017 Melbourne - Albury - Wagga Wagga Welcome to our 5 Day tour to the Cherry Festival in Young NSW. After personal pickup from home, we begin our day s travel as we take the scenic route to Mansfield where we will enjoy lunch. This afternoon we drive through Swanpool to connect with the Hume Highway. We continue onto Wagga Wagga and check into our accommodation, our base for the next four nights. After some time to unpack we enjoy dinner. OVERNIGHT: Mercure, WAGGA WAGGA Day 2: Saturday 2nd December, 2017 YOUNG CHERRY TIME FESTIVAL Today is all about cherries so after breakfast, we drive to Young - "the Cherry Capital of Australia". Young is the largest cherry growing area in the Southern Hemisphere with an annual production in excess of 500,000 cases. Each year 76 percent of the total Australian cherry crop is produced by 254 individual growers at Young. As well the large Australian market, fresh cherries are exported to markets in Asia, the Arab states, Europe and Britain. Young is celebrating the 68 th National Cherry Festival and will be at the height of the cherry picking season. This iconic regional produce event showcases the humble Cherry which has been part of the landscape around Young for over 150 years. On our arrival, we ll enjoy a brief locally

5 guided tour so we can familiarise ourselves with today s programme. Key events include Cherry Pie eating contest, Cherry Pip Spit, Cherry Festival Street Parade, Markets, Busking Competitions and Dog Trials. We have some free time to enjoy some of these festivities before heading to the Allambie Cherry and Plum Orchard. We enjoy lunch and here s a hint make sure you leave room for the cherry pie! We have the opportunity to look through the packing shed as well as picking our own cherries (paid for by the kilo at Market Rates - own expense). Returning to town, we watch the street Parade before heading back to Wagga Wagga for a slightly later dinner. What a great day!! OVERNIGHT: Mercure, WAGGA WAGGA Day 3: Sunday 3rd December, 2017 Wagga Wagga / Junee After a hearty breakfast we set out to discover Wagga Wagga. Located on the banks of the Murrumbidgee River, the town was named by the original inhabitants, the Wiradjuri people and means crow. Repeating it means crows, hence a place of many crows. Our local guide will take us on a tour of this scenic township before morning tea at the Visitor Information Centre. We then head to Junee, a historic railway town that is situated within a rich agricultural and pastoral district. It s here we find the finest colonial mansion in the Riverina - Monte Cristo. The house has been faithfully restored and furnished in the High

6 Victorian Period The owners, who still live here, started collecting furniture and antiques 40 years ago, first from Adelaide and then from Europe. The house is recognised as the most haunted house in Australia with 10 resident ghosts! We enjoy lunch and a guided tour. Our next visit is to Junee Liquorice & Chocolate Factory. Here they manufacture organic liquorice, one of only three certified organic liquorice manufacturers in the world! Afterwards we take a drive past the splendid Railway Station which is a reminder of the important regional role that Junee played in the hey-day of the Steam Train Era before returning to Wagga Wagga and our motel for dinner. OVERNIGHT: Mercure, WAGGA WAGGA

7 Day 4: Monday 4th December, 2017 BOGGY CREEK After breakfast we travel via Rosewood to Boggy Creek Station. Mountains, legends & laughs - The Boggy Creek Show combines all the skill of horsemanship, mustering, whip cracking, working dogs and sheep tricks with humour, a naughty kelpie and a stubborn mule. There are not many truly traditional family farms left in the High Country. The Boggy Creek Show reflects Australia's iconic farming values and practices, ones that people from all around Australia and the world recognise and identify with. The Boggy Creek Show is a 2-hour live show that utilises farming techniques and knowledge learnt over three generations. The owner-operator, Tim O'Brien, keeps his culture alive by showing people how generations of High Country cattlemen opened up and farmed the High Country. Preserving the bush knowledge that can only be described as "heritage" is one of the main aims of the Boggy Creek Show. Tim goes to great lengths to show visitors the ins and outs of mountain life: from how to "cooee", to boiling the billy for tea. Nothing is overlooked in bringing past and recent farming activities alive. At the conclusion of the show, we make our way into Tumbarumba where we enjoy lunch at the Pioneer Women s Hut. The cottage includes an excellent collection of domestic artifacts, agricultural machinery and local crafts. After lunch we take in the sights of Tumbarumba, a delightful small country town which is largely untouched by the modern world. See the Court House and Police Residence which were constructed in the 1880s. Their age is still evident in the VR (Victoria Regina) embossed into the cast iron lacework. There are gables in the outbuildings and the court room was a double height ceiling. Around the corner in Bridge Street is the current local Court House, a beautiful building with large trees in the street outside. From here we travel via Batlow and Adelong back to Wagga and the motel for dinner. OVERNIGHT: Mercure, WAGGA WAGGA

8 Day 5: Tuesday 5th December, 2017 Wagga - Home Following breakfast, we farewell our hosts and begin our journey home. We travel via The Rock and Culcairn to Victoria. We enjoy morning tea by Lake Hume before driving down to Benalla for a farewell lunch. We arrive back in Melbourne late afternoon to complete a sensational 5 day tour. As always our chauffeurs will be waiting to return us safely home. We trust you arrive home safely with memories of a fascinating and rewarding tour. Thank you for travelling with O Shannessy s Tours we look forward to your patronage again in the future! For details of other tours available Phone toll free on CONDITIONS OF TRAVEL Any special passenger requirements must be notified to O Shannessy s Tours at the time of booking. No passenger will be permitted to embark or continue on the tour while their mental or physical condition is, in the opinion of any representative of O Shannessy s 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. O Shannessy s Tours will not be responsible for expenses resulting in such persons being precluded from completing the tour for any such reason. It is also a requirement of O Shannessy s Tours that each passenger is able to negotiate coach steps 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. If you are willing to twin share but are a smoker or have a CPAP machine or snore, you will need to pay a single supplement for a sole use room.