We provide over 50 different walking tours as well as designing and combining tours to meet special requests. Choose your theme and suggest a time and date of your convenience.
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SEE – SCHOOL EXCURSIONS e.g. Explorer, Sustainability, Architecture Federation, Geography, Indigenous Landscapes, Colonial, Lanes, Literature, ‘Runner’, Street Art, Science and many more…
AMAZING LANES AND ARCADES TOUR
Explore the fascinating labyrinth in Melbourne’s historic warehouse, fashion, maritime and residential precincts. More….
MELBOURNE STREET ART AND GRAFFITI TOUR
Melbourne’s back lanes are internationally famous as creative galleries and feature thousands of amazing stencils, posters, paintings, murals, light boxes, graffiti and installations as well as historic typographies. More…
BEARBRASS: THE FOUNDING OF MELBOURNE
Explore the original places of colonial settlement in the heart of the CBD. More…
‘LOST MELBOURNE’ TOUR
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MELBOURNE CITY OF LITERATURE TOUR
A walking tour of booksellers and books: Melbourne is the world’s second UNESCO City of Literature. More…
MELBOURNE INDIGENOUS LANDSCAPES TOURS
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MELBOURNE CRIME TOUR
Explore crimes, cold cases and mysteries in the heart of the city. More…
MELBOURNE ARCHITECTURAL TOUR
Visit landmark architectural buildings that tell the story of Melbourne. More…
MELBOURNE SUSTAINABILITY TOUR
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MELBOURNE SOCIAL JUSTICE TOUR
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MADAM BRUSSELL’S MELBOURNE
Explore the places, times and 19th-century life of the city’s most infamous ‘Madam.’ More…
SQUIZZY TAYLOR TOUR
Visit CBD sites places associated with the notorious gangster, bootlegger, jury rigger, thief, murder, blackmailer and gambler. More…
MELBOURNE DUNNY LANES TOUR
Join an 1880 dunny crew and undergo training in the maze of historic lanes and arcades exploring Melbourne’s hidden infrastructure. More…
ST KILDA MURDER AND MYSTERY TOUR
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GREAT MARKETS OF MELBOURNE TOUR
Explore the historic locations, images and stories of famous markets from 1842 to 2020. More…
LOST CEMETERIES TOUR (including QV market)
Did you know that there are 9000 bodies of early settlers, Aboriginals, Quakers, and bushrangers buried under the Queen Victoria Market Car Park? More…
SIGNS IN THE CITY – A MELBOURNE CULTURAL TYPOGRAPHY TOUR
Explore the City of Melbourne’s oldest heritage letterforms. More…
OP SHOPS BY THE BAYSIDE BY BICYCLE
Cycle to bargains at Op shops in the beautiful basyside suburbs of St Kilda, Port Melbourne and South Melbourne. More…
LAST MAN HANGED – THE RONALD RYAN TOUR
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MELBOURNE WOMEN TOUR
Retrace the historic places and significant buildings which tell the story of Melbourne’s women campaigners for equality and social justice from settlement to today. More…
MELBOURNE HALLOWEEN TOURS
Experience the lost cities of the dead at Flagstaff Gardens and Queen Victoria Market. More…
WALKING TOUR OF MELBOURNE’S MONUMENTS
THE CREATIVE CITY TOUR
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LIVING WILD OFF THE LAND
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MELBOURNE WILDFLOWERS TOUR
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YARRAVILLE WALKING TOUR
Explore the delightful village of Yarraville with its fascinating mix of railways, picture theatre, traders, clubs and community groups. See Pictures.
PORT MELBOURNE WALKING TOUR
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ELWOOD WALKING TOUR
Explore the extraordinary built and natural heritage of Elwood with the author of the ‘History of Elwood’ including the canal, the Ormond Road village, the foreshore, architecture and indigenous sites. More…
ELWOOD POETRY TOUR
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RIPPONLEA WALKING TOUR
Ripponlea’s historic places from indigenous times to heritage village by the author of ‘Ripponlea. The Village’ (2010). More…
FOOTSCRAY WALKING TOURS
Take a stroll through the heart of Footscray and explore the fascinating history of its, people, homes, hotels, businesses, immigration, warehouses, transport and changes over time and the Heritage Wharf precinct. See pictures…
MARVELLOUS MELBOURNE
Explore the golden age of the Melbourne boom of the late nineteenth century: the mansions, palaces of commerce, civic buildings, churches, great hotels, vaults, cathedrals, galleries, banks and stock exchanges.
MULTICULTURAL MELBOURNE
Explore iconic cultural places of Melbourne influenced by waves of immigrants. More…
WILLIAM BUCKLEY’S MELBOURNE
In the footsteps of the ‘wild white man’: Retrace the escape route of convict William Buckley who lived with Aboriginal people for thirty-two years before settlement in 1835.
MELBOURNE GEOGRAPHY TOUR
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YARRA BEND
Explore the archaeological and natural history of the Yarra River and Merri Creek junction.
THE MARIBYRNONG VALLEY
Explore the archaeological and natural history of the Maribyrnong Valley, one of Australia’s great pre-history locations.
ST KILDA, THE DARK SIDE
Walk the back lanes of St Kilda at night to discover 175 years of murder, arson, prostitution, slygrog, cannibalism, bushrangers, theft and the redoubtable Squizzy Taylor. More…
ACLAND STREET
Walk the length of legendary Acland Street to visit the amazing architecture, history, cafes, cake shops, pubs, mansions, theatres, churches, artists, writers, and more.
LITERARY ST KILDA
St Kilda is Melbourne’s greatest setting for thrillers, books, screenplays and writers. Experience places used in up to fifty Australian books and films.
ELWOOD: FLOOD, FIRE & FEVER
Explore the Elwood village and streets to discover the history of its early settlers, wetlands, poets, landscapes, homes, transport, businesses and local identities.
ST KILDA HILL
Walk St Kilda Hill from the Astor down to the Carlisle Street village to explore a crowded landscape of theatres, churches, army base, cottages, mansions, synagogues, pubs, parks, post office and drains. Explore St Kilda’s architecture since settlement from its wealthy seaside mansions, great hotels, amusement palaces, seabaths, boarding houses, flats, brothels, punk venues and immigrant cafes.
ART DECO ST KILDA
Visit the great art deco buildings of the St Kilda foreshore.
ART DECO ELWOOD
Visit the delightful art deco flats and buildings of Elwood
BUSHRANGERS TO BIOPOLIS
Explore the fascinating history of the St Kilda Road precinct.
MARVELLOUS MIDDLE PARK
Discover the fascinating range of architecture, streets, building styles and historic personalities revealed in the landscape.
POETRY STREETS OF ELWOOD
Take turns to read the poetry of the thirty or so authors and poets whose names are borne aloft on street signs such as Dickens, Tennyson, Byron, Browning, Barrett and Gordon.
THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE
Relive the events and personalities of the Crimean War by traveling the score of war-named streets such as Odessa, Malakoff, Nightingale, Alma, Balaclava and Inkerman.
THE SPIRIT OF ST KILDA
Discover 180 years of the spiritual heritage of St Kilda’s places of worship established by Aboriginals, settlers, refugees, today’s communities and the persecuted for ‘matching, hatching and dispatching’.
HISTORIC PUB CRAWL ST KILDA
Discover fascinating stories behind St Kilda’s great 150-year-old hotels including The Gorge, Esplanade, Elephant and castle, Prince of Wales and others.
ELWOOD CANAL
Explore the Elwood canal (formerly Elster Creek) at Point Ormond near its junction with the sea and discover the history, wildlife, flora, early settlement, and indigenous places of this ancient swamp and coastline.
MERRI CREEK MEANDER
Travel down the Merri creek valley from Northcote to its confluence at the Yarra and discover the amazing, natural, indigenous and cultural heritage of this urban waterway
IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF THE DUNNT MAN
Explore the maze of 19th century lanes in historic Albert Park as a night soil worker and discover extraordinary workers’ cottages, bluestone, chimneys, characters and the great Australian outhouse. A time travel journey to the rear end of Victorian architecture and working life.
HOUSING THE POOR AND THE PRIVILEGED
Garden City is home to five extraordinary housing estates including ‘Baghdad’ or Fishermens Bend and the heritage Bank Houses built to an English visionary ideal.
Further Reading about Melbourne’s history
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