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Adelaide
Australia

Adelaide main street, linking to Alice Spings Pictures, Australia

Hutt St, Adelaide. Click for Red Centre Uluru Pictures.

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Adelaide is another charming, spacious Australian city with wide roads, piles of green spaces and old Victorian buildings mixing it with some fairly repulsive modern, glass and concrete monstrosities. People are friendly and bars or restaurants varied and busy.

That being said, while Adelaide is clearly an excellent place to live and work it's not exactly packed with touristic must-sees unless you count a chocolate factory, the wandering Murray River and the wine centre among your immediate travel needs, though the annual February Fringe Festival is a world-class culture-monster and worth making an effort to attend if you're in the neighbourhood.

Adelaide north terrace, Australia

North Terrace, the Art Gallery of South Australia, South Australian Museum and State Library.

Out of town are some worthwhile attractions.

Half an hour away to the south is the pleasant beach suburb of Glenelg with a reasonable strand, varied activities and adequate surf.

Wildlife on the more distant Kangaroo Island is diverse and plentiful but needs wheels of some kind, hire or a tour.

There's also 'wildlife' more easily available in the superb Cleland Wildlife Park in the Adelaide Hills, half an hour from the city, see pictures of the park later in this series.

Finally grapes are big in South Australia so winos would feel the need to taste offerings in the Adelaide Hills, Fleurieu Peninsula and Barossa Valley, preferably via one of the staggeringly interesting cellar door tours that spends more time in wineries than shops and saves wobbly drives home.

 

Australia, Glenelg, Adelaide beach

Glenelg, the city's beach suburb.

 

Adelaide, tourists hand feeding kangaroos in Cleland wildlife park, Australia

The Cleland Wildlife Park, Adelaide Hills.

Australia's wildlife is not as easy to see as many tourists imagine so a good wildlife park that lets you get up close and personal with local critters is a great asset. Cleland does an admirable job in a relaxed and comfortable environment.

 

a Kangaroo, Cleland wildlife park, linking to Alice Spings Pictures, Australia

Another Cleland inhabitant. Click to see Red Centre Uluru Pictures or here for more Australia Animal Pictures.

 

 

 

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