A beautiful enigma: Travel Diaries: Yarra Valley

I am back! (in Brissy and in the blogging world! Yay!)

It's been two weeks since my sister and I got back from our Melbourne trip, and FINALLY, I am blogging about it (*insert happy face. lol). I know this has been long overdue, but I got caught up with work and didn't have much time to write about our travel adventures (okay, excuses, excuses! hahaha).

So without further adieu, let me recount our tour through pictures.

Weeks before our escapade, my sister and I did some research on the must-sees, things to do and best places to eat in Melbourne online. And voila! Google led us to Yarra Valley. According to http://www.visityarravalley.com.au/, it is world-renowned for its great food and wines. Yarra Valley boasts cafes and restaurants, art galleries, markets, nature walks and so on with its mountain views as the background.

Yarra Valley

So armed with that info from Mr. Google, my sister Ann booked a whole day Yarra Valley Wine Tasting Tour as part of our 3rd-day Melbourne itinerary. The tour included visits to 4 wineries, a dairy farm, a chocolate factory and a brewery. My sister got thrilled by wine-tasting as she likes having wine, while I was more thrilled by seeing wineries, vineyards and all that jazz.

Yarra Valley

On the day of the tour, we met 7 other tourists (3 exchange students from the US and France; a couple from Sydney; an Australian woman and her Kiwi friend from who came all the way from New Zealand just to watch Keith Urban's concert in Melbourne - she was our fave, but we forgot her name so we decided to call her "Keith Urban". lol). Together with our tour guide Sash, we rode a private van from Melbourne CBD straight to the Yarra Valley region. Coincidentally, it was drizzling on that day so sipping wine was just good to keep us all warm from the chilly winter weather.

Our first stop: the Yering Station Old Winery.