Bundaberg

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Bundaberg is in Queensland, Australia.

	bundaberg Travel Guide : 1 Get in 2 Get around 3 See 3.1 Central 3.2 North 3.3 East 4 Do 5 Work 6 Buy 7 Eat 8 Drink 9 Sleep 10 Get out 11 Tourist Info 12 External links

Get in

Bundaberg is approx. 4-hours drive by car north of Brisbane. Buses do the journey in around 6 hours. Queensland Rail1 (http://www.traveltrain.com.au/) trains take 4 hours on a new tilt train, or up to 6 1/2 on the Sunlander or Spirit of the Outback. Adult fare $62.70 one way. Bundaberg can also be reached by air from regional centers (check for specials). The airport is around 4 km west of the city center.

Get around

Duffy's buses2 (http://duffysbuses.com.au/) run mainly school buses, although there are some public routes. Other you really need a car to get anywhere outside the city center. A number of Backpacker hostels run shuttle minibuses for seasonal workers to local farms early in the morning and back again in the afternoon.

See

Central

• Visit the Bundaberg Rum distillery 3 (http://www.bundabergrum.com.au/), where the amber fluid has been produced since 1888. Tours run on the hour, every hour 10 am to 3 pm, Monday to Friday, 10 am to 2 pm, Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays. +61 7 4131-2999. Covered footware required. Adults $9.90, students, seniors, pensioners, group or more than 15 (prebooking required) $7.70, children 5 to 17 years $4.40, children under 5 free.

North

• The Hinkler House Memorial Museum, +61 7 4152-0222, located in the Botanic gardens, was originally the house of Bert Hinkler, a pioneer aviator born in Bundaberg who, in 1928, became the first to fly solo from England to Australia, and, in 1931, the first to fly solo across the South Atlantic. The house was originally located on the Thornhill Estate, Sholing, in Southampton, England, and was rescued from destruction in 1983, when it was dismantled and shipped brick by brick to Bundaberg and reconstructed. Open daily, 10.00 am to 4.00 pm (9.30 am to 4.30 pm during Queensland School Holidays). Closed on Christmas day, Good Friday and ANZAC day (April 25, until 1 pm).
• Also in the botanic gardens is a restored steam train.

East

• Turtles4 (http://www.bundabergregion.info/turtles/turtles_home.cfm) return each year around December to Mon Repos to lay their eggs at night. In around February, and in December you can see the little hatchlings struggle their way into the ocean against the waves. The beach is part of a National Park, and you must be accompanied by a ranger to see the turtles. Laying and hatching is at night.

Do

• Walk along Bourbong Street and look at some of the city's old buildings.
• Swin at Bagara beach
• Go to the Hummock, a 100-meter-tall hill on the outskirts of Bundaberg for a good view of the city and out to the ocean. On a clear day, you can see the tip of Fraser Island

Work

Seasonal work can be obtained picking tomatoes and other fruits and vegetables. Check with the backpacker hostels for more info. To work legally, you require a valid work visa (not a tourist visa) and you should provide the employer with a tax file number if you do not want them to deduct 48 % tax from your wages (normal non-residental tax rate 29 %). It may be possible to work without a valid visa (cash-in-hand), though occasionally inspectors do checks on farms and at hostels, which could possibly result in severe consequences.

Buy

Bourbong Street, the main drag through town, is partly a shared pedestrian zone with a variety of shops, banks, travel agents and the main post office. Apart fom there, there are two major shopping centers, Hinkler Place a few blocks to the south on the corner of Maryborough and Electra Sts, and the larger Sugarland in the west (Cnr Takalvan and Heidke Sts), both of which contain most of the major Australian chains between them.

Eat

Drink

Sleep

There are around three backpackers hostels to choose from. One is opposite the bus depot. Two others are opposite the train station. Most of these can arrange farm work and will even provide transport to the farms in the morning and back in the afternoon.

Get out

• Lady Musgrave Island
• Lady Eliot Island
• Mystery Craters
• Whale watching (seasonal)

Tourist Info

Bundaberg District Tourism and Development Board, +61 7 4152 2333, Cnr Mulgrave and Bourbong Sts (Fax: 4153 1444). The building also contains a model of an aircraft of Bert Hinkler.

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