Enjoy a small-group full-day tour that combines native wildlife with wine tasting in Victoria’s internationally acclaimed Yarra Valley wine region. Set out from Melbourne for a visit to Healesville Sanctuary, founded in order to preserve and protect endangered animal species, and spend the morning observing koalas, kangaroos, emus and other iconic native animals.
Early afternoon, travel across to Yering Station Vineyard for a delicious a la carte main course lunch and wine tasting before finishing the day with cheese and wine at the De Bortoli Winery.
Posted By : Siliconcrystal
This trip is definitely an amazing experience. So lucky for us to have Rob as our tour guide, he is lovely and kind. I also buy a book of the surfing dog of Rob. The wine and the food in Yalla River is fantastic. And the bird show in the zoo is also awesome.
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Posted On : 2024-06-19 09:35:32 
Posted By : R1329ZQcatherines
Lovely tour of the wildlife sanctuary and two excellent wineries. Great day out in the Yarra Valley! Thanks so much guys.
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Posted On : 2024-05-27 02:17:55
Posted By : Douglas_L
Overall an excellent trip ultimately complementing our time in Melbourne. The animal sanctuary provided novel experiences including the opportunity to get close to the kangaroos. The winery visits were of high quality providing excellent tasting options and lunch. The tour was not rushed allowing all of us to enjoy the day. Paul was an excellent guide who made us part of his "family" for the day ensuring that the day was enjoyable to all. It was clear he was well respected by the staffs at all of the establishments we visited tailoring the visits to our desires.
I will be recommending this tour option to my colleagues who frequent Melbourne.
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Posted On : 2024-05-20 19:26:06 
Posted By : Jamie_M
Great balance of walking and wildlife with food and wine! Our guide Paul was fabulous and had the inside scoop on the animal sanctuary as well as both winery stops.
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Posted On : 2024-05-20 16:46:58
Posted By : Naomi_C
Our tour guide Paul is very friendly and helpful throughout pre-tour discussion and the tour day. Very knowledgeable in Melbourne and Yarra Valley history and Wine. It has good selection of Wineries. The mix of Healesville and Wineries can fit every group’s needs. The car is nice and clean, 10 seats for only 6 people group this time. The price is slightly higher than others but it’s worthy!
Highly recommended!
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Posted On : 2024-05-07 22:06:35
Posted By : Anthony_L
Had a great small group tour of sanctuary and then delicious lunch with a couple of wine tastings afterwards - Adrian was a great guide and made everything run smooth - animals were up close and personal and had added bonus of seeing some wild kangaroos in the fields after last tasting. Well done and highly recommended day outside of Melbourne.
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Posted On : 2024-05-02 19:43:50
Posted By : Nikhil_G
Great day with Paul. Top bloke and very engaging and knowledgable.
Speedy pick up and a great group.
Highly recommend!
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Posted On : 2024-04-26 06:32:15
Posted By : Oswaldo C
This was an amazing trip. Rob our tour guide was really cool and friendly. We did a wine tasting as well as a sanctuary tour. The vineyards are breathtaking and the wines are amazing. French barrels in Australia!!!! A must do on your trip to Melbourne.
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Posted On : 2024-04-23 21:07:28
Posted By : Flyer64921325629
I am from the States (Houston to be exact) so wanted to make sure whatever I booked was worth it. This did not disappoint. Our tour guide Cam was awesome. We had a small group of 5, so there was space and great conversation all over. Our tour guide was very knowledgeable and kind. We were also fortunate that just 3 of us checked out Healesville Sanctuary and we had TWO tour guides so that was awesome. Food was great, much better than expected, with several options. Wine tasting was also fun. Must do when visiting Melbourne. Thanks Rob/Cam.
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Posted On : 2024-04-17 14:55:25
Posted By : BayAreaCouple2
We had the pleasure of going to Yarra Valley with Adrian. He was very friendly and we enjoyed the information on Australia and his personal stories. He really engaged the group. Some people went for a total day of wine tasting and the other half spent the morning at the wildlife sanctuary. We didn’t get a volunteer guide at the sanctuary, but that ended up okay. There were lots of children there because of the spring break. It didn’t seem overly crowded and was nice that many animals weren’t in cages and we were wondering how they (eg, kangaroos) knew not to cross the roped off areas. There were lots of Koalas which was great because they are so cute and you get a close up view.
The lunch and wine tasting at Yering was fabulous. Then we went to a wine and cheese paring at Debortoli which was equally great.
Initially we thought this tour might be on the expensive side, but given the lunch and the higher end wines we experienced it was well worth it.
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Posted On : 2024-04-12 02:21:28
