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Bathurst

Gold!… Gold!… Gold!…

"Experience life as it used to be in the Australian Goldrush days. You can study the skies and the land and gain an insight to life on the farm or learn to throw a boomerang."

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Venue selections

  • Australian Fossil & Mineral Museum - home of the Somerville Collection
  • Bathurst Goldfields
  • Bathurst & District Historical Museum
  • Bathurst Observatory
  • Ben Chifley House
  • Heritage Park
  • Historical Bathurst Tour
  • Hill End Holiday Ranch
  • National Motor Racing Museum

Accomodation selections

  • Bathurst Goldfields
  • Heritage Park
  • Governor Macquarie Motor Inn
  • Newhaven Park House

Sample itineraries

2 Day Bathurst sample itinerary

Day 1

7.00am Coach arrives at school.
7.15am Coach departs school.
9.45am Echo Point andy the Three Sisters
Morning Tea.
10.30am Depart Katoomba.
11.45am Jenolan Caves
Outstanding Limestone caves with spectacular lighting, underground rivers and cave formation that will amaze you.
1.30pm Lunch - Students and teachers supply own packed lunch.
2.00pm Depart for Bathurst.
3.15pm Heritage Park
Enjoy a unique experience. See and hear the story of some of the leading sheep and cattle breeds, watch as they parade before you and move to their place on the stage. You can join in and milk a cow, watch a sheep being shorn and see the wool being classed.
5.00pm Arrive overnight accommodation.
6.00pm Dinner.
7.30pm Evening activity - Bush Dance, Campfire, Observatory.

Day 2

7.30am Breakfast.
9.00am Gold Tour
Attractions and hands on activities include operating whip, operating California bucket pump, gold panning demonstration, operating whim, mine tour, steam shed and operating steam engines, operating stamper batter, blacksmithing demonstration, operating water wheel and operating water wheel.
12.00pm Lunch - Sausage Sizzle
12.30pm Life in the Goldfields
Includes making mud bricks, erecting mud brick and rammed earth buildings, bush cooking, bush games and cradling gold.
2.00pm Gold Panning
  • 'Hands-on' Gold Panning
2.30pm Depart Bathurst Goldfields return journey.
Short stop at McDonalds Blaxland - at own expense.
7.00pm Approximate arrival at school.

All itineraries are tailored to suit specific needs and requirements. Times are subject to change due to session availability. Travelways excursions offer students and teachers a fun educational learning experience. We know the best venues to visit, negotiate the best rates and we realise safety is an issue. That is why we provide modern seat belt equipped vehicles for the safety of students, so teachers and parents can rest easy.

3 day Bathurst sample itinerary

Day 1

7.15am Coach arrives at school.
7.30am Depart school for Bathurst.
Morning Tea stop at Three sisters / Echo Point.
Students and teachers to provide own morning tea.
9.30am Katoomba Scenic Railway
Built in 1878 to transport coal to the top of the escarpment, this thrilling and unique ride descends 450 meters down the escarpment at a maximum gradient of 52 degrees and it holds the Guinness Book of Records Certificate as The World's steepest passenger carrying incline railway.

Lunch – Students and teachers to provide own packed lunch.
12.00pm Depart for return journey to Bathurst.
2.00pm Heritage Park
See the Famous Sheep & Cattle Drome Show where some of our leading breeds of the Central Tablelands are on display.
3.30pm Heritage Park Animal Nursery
Take a wander through the Heritage Park animal nursery and see how they care for the animals of all ages.
5.00pm Arrive Bathurst Goldfields
Students to provide own sleeping bag and towels.
6.00pm Dinner.
7.30pm Evening activity at Bathurst Goldfields.

Day 2

7.30am Breakfast.
9.00am Bathurst Goldfields - Gold Tour
Tour the gold workings on the site of Mt Panorama. On a guided tour, you will see a blacksmithing demonstration, a working steam operated Stamper Battery, the indoor Geology Museum and have explained the workings of a gold mine.
11.30am Sausage Sizzle Lunch – provided by accommodation centre.
12.00pm Bathurst Goldfields - Life in the Goldfields
You will experience ‘A Life in the Goldfields’, a program which includes; making and erecting mud bricks and rammed earth buildings, bush cooking, bush games and experience life in a wattle and daub hut.
2.30pm Depart for Bathurst Goldfields.
3.00pm NSW Mineral Museum – The Somerville Collection
The Somerville Collection gives students access to the finest and rarest examples of minerals and fossils in the world. Highlights from the mineral collection include crystals from Australian mine sites, the world’s largest rhodonite gem crystals, 2,000 million years old garnets, rainbow-coloured fluorites from China.
Features of the fossil collection include Australia’s only complete T-Rex skeleton, Australia’s largest collection of fossil dinosaur eggs, some of the oldest fossils of early forms of life and a large collection of Australia’s unique opalised fossils.
5.30pm Overnight accommodation at Bathurst Goldfields.
6.00pm Dinner.
7.30pm Evening Activity at Bathurst Goldfields.

Day 3

7.30am Breakfast.
8.30am Depart accommodation centre.
10.00am Jenolan Caves Tour
Explore the amazing caves at Jenolan and discover all the different and beautiful formations that have come to form over the years.

Lunch – packed lunch provided by accommodation centre.
12.30pm Depart for return journey to school.
Midway comfort break – at own expense.
4.00pm Approximate arrival at school.

All itineraries are tailored to suit specific needs and requirements. Times are subject to change due to session availability. Travelways excursions offer students and teachers a fun educational learning experience. We know the best venues to visit, negotiate the best rates and we realise safety is an issue. That is why we provide modern seat belt equipped vehicles for the safety of students, so teachers and parents can rest easy.


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