Sovereign Hill, Ballarat, Bendigo and surroundings are surreal places you should not miss whenever you happen to visit Victoria. Perfectly preserved nineteenth century architecture, wide streets, tiny miners’ cottages, hauntingly beautiful churches, fascinating cemeteries, and amazing monuments and statues all contribute to the region’s sense of history and heritage.
The minute I got out of the bus I felt I was taking part in a Western movie: I wandered in a sort of open-air museum reproducing a gold-rush town. Life stopped in the 1850s. Even the people in period costume “inhabited” the town as townpeople, soldiers and miners mingled with us: the astonished "contemporary visitors"....
