Visit Yarra Valley & Dandenong Ranges, Australia

Less than an hour from Melbourne the richly fertile Yarra Valley is dotted with fruit orchards and flower farms, peppered with vineyards and sheltered by the verdant Dandenong Ranges.

Here the Puffing Billy steam train winds its way through fern glades and mountain ash trees from Belgrave to the lovely village of Emerald.

The William Ricketts Sanctuary

The William Ricketts Sanctuary, a place of beauty and spirituality, has an amazing collection of Aboriginal sculptures, and a short distance to the east, the Upper Yarra Valley extends beyond Warburton in a wild tumble of rocky mountain streams and nature at its most beautiful and unspoiled.