For travelers who came to Melbourne and love shopping, the second largest city in Australia with a population of 3.3 million people could be the right choice.One of the shopping center that you should not miss is the Queen Victoria Market, located at 513 Elizabeth Street.

Queen Victoria Market offers many various items.Nearly 1,000 merchants are selling goods on the market that has the width of about seven hectares.This market open five days a week (closed on Monday and Wednesday) and sell food every day, such as various kinds of fish, meat, fruits and vegetables, wine, bread, snackssuch as sandwiches, hot dogs, pizza, clothes, various kinds of souvenirs, compact discs and cassettes, children's toys, and pets.

No wonder that the people of Australia called the Queen Victoria Market is more than just the main shopping destination.For them, Queen Victoria Market is a historic place, a travelers magnet, and an institution for the citizens of Melbourne.For over 100 years, these shopping centers serve the needs of more than 200,000 people in one week.

Queen Victoria Market is located at the northwest edge of the central district of Melbourne's and it was officially opened on March 20, 1878.As time goes by, other markets also appeared along with the growing population.However with the changes in shopping patterns of Melbourne citizen, the markets one by one were also falling.However, the Queen Victoria Market last until today.

The market is open from 06.00 it closed at 14:00 (Tuesday and Thursday), at 18:00 (Friday), at 15.00 (Saturday), and at 16:00 (Sunday).And, can be reached by using buses, trams, trains, or cars.In Queen Victoria Market you can also easily find breeders who sell pets, such as chickens and ducks around the pickup truck parked in the parking lot of the Queen Victoria Market.

If you can compare, Queen Victoria Market is similar to the Chatuchak Market in Bangkok, which is also known as the weekend market (weekend market).In addition to goods that were sold in a variety of markets, the price is very competitive, if you do not want to say cheap.

Travel to Melbourne would not all for business spending.On the outskirts of Melbourne, about an hour away by car, you can find Healesville Nature Reserve, which became the home of more than 200 species of birds, mammals, and reptiles native to Australia.

This nature reserve is covering an area of 32 hectares that was opened to the public since 1934.Although the three animals native to Australia's most widely known is the koala, kangaroo, and dingo (a type of wolf-like dog figure), actually a collection of Australian native animals are still many more, including platypus, mammal that lived in two worlds, water and land, whichrunning around trying to eat at night.

The officers at Healesville Nature Reserve stands ready to provide a detailed explanation about the animals that were there, ranging from kangaroos that can determine themselves when her son was moved from her womb into her pocket maintenance, until koalas that slept for 21 hours in a day.

Outside the nature reserve, on the outskirts of Melbourne there are other places of interest to visit; among them are some wine producers.One of them is Yering Station in the Yarra Valley, which was founded in 1838.

As one of the tourist destination, Melbourne could be categorized as a metropolitan city and also a tourist-friendly (backpacker) city.