Sovereign Hill

Sovereign Hill is a tourist attraction which hosts a lot of Chinese and student groups. Whether it would be uni groups or school kids.

An old building

Scenery

An old sign

Entrance

At the goldfields

Inside the miner's cottage

Soaps

At the hat store

Inside a child's room

An old fireplace

At the candle shop

School in the 1850's

The place has been blogged about many times by uni students and by International student publications. We hadn't yet blogged about it so when a deal from Living Social came for $39 for one person we jumped at the chance. With that deal comes two days for the price of one and free coach from Ballarat station.

Normally it is about $52. The Blood on the Southern Cross attracts extra.

The coach ride to Sovereign Hill was great. Upon entering the coach we received a card saying free Cobb and Co ride and 10% off entry. We needed neither as there was lots of keep us occupied. I first saw them at the Archibald Prize as we were passing through and it was not far from the station. At the Family Hakwers market we tried the sausage roll.

Here there are many old buildings and we had fun exploring them all.  All the ladies in their costumes looked lovely and were very friendly. Most were willing to take pictures for everyone. In fact the lady at the candle place said that on really hot days she gets really hot in that costume, but they just have to cope as this is what they did in those days with no air conditioning.

Many of the buildings have no air conditioning except for the New York Bakery and cafes. The New York bakery was a good old place and I enjoyed tea there. The group of Chinese people enjoyed their scones and they took some away.

We also enjoyed sampling the sweets at the Brown bakers where there was a talk on how they were made. They were very warm. The sweets at various places at Sovereign Hill ranged from $1-$20, depending how much you bought. By the way most of the shops take cash only but there is an atm at the entrance.

The bowling was also fun and we enjoyed playing it.

The pan for gold was also a part of the experience and was enjoyable and so was the Chinese camp.

Do visit Sovereign Hill just for fun and do look out for Living Social and Scoopon deals for these