Adelaide Things to Do Tips by Kate-Me

The Giant Rocking Horse is just an interesting place to see....as the horse is very large (Australia is very well known for it's large man made monuments - for example the Big Pineapple in Qld, the Giant Koala in Victoria, the Giant Lobster in South Australia...and the list goes on).

Besides climbing the horse and having a good view out, you can also go through the adjoining toy workshop/giftshop selling wooden locally made goods and other souvenirs. The kids will enjoy this one.

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Directions: At the town of Gumeracha in the Adelaide Hills

This is a small sculpture park on a hill overlooking the picturesque Barossa Valley wine growing region of Adelaide.

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Chateau Yaldara is one of the more European styled wineries I visited in the Barossa.
Like most wineries, of course they offer wine tasting.

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Address: Barossa Valley

The Whispering Wall is a large dam, so named because when it was built, the acoustics turned out to carry even quiet sounds right around the bend of the dam to the other side.

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Address: In the Adelaide Hills

Story has it that the Whispering wall's unique ability was discovered one day when a workman constructing the dam was on the far side, and his boss on the near side.
The workman was verbally complaining to a colleague about his boss, who happened to easily hear everything even though he was so far from the speaker.
Don't know what happened to the worker after that!

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Address: Adelaide Hills

This is a photo taken at the quaint little German/Australian tourist town of Hahndorf, in the Adelaide Hills.

There's not quite as much German charm in the town as there used to be in years gone by, but it is still nice, and there are many quality Australian shops as well.
There's a lot of history here too, in the old German buildings. I especially recommend the museum.

I really enjoy the bakery, especially the German one, the handmade boiled sweets shop, ice cream parlour, the leathercrafts shop, souvenir shops - truly we spent a
whole day just exploring one side of the street!

(My brochure says there are more than 100 venues in town to browse, and I can well believe it...it's a very long street and packed with shops to browse or buy in)

The German people who immigrated here to the Adelaide Hills and the Barossa Valley in the 1830's played a very important role in the development of the area (which if you're interested to learn further details of, you can read more in the Travelogue at the bottom of my Adelaide pages)

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Address: Hahndorf

This is the largest regional Art Gallery in South Australia. It has a gift shop, artists in residence, and works on display by the famous German immigrant artist Hans Heysen (he became one of Australia's most famous artists)

It is also home to the German Migration Museum, which I really enjoyed.
You can see many writings, books and relics from the German's early days of settlement history in the region.

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Address: Hahndorf
Directions: In the main street of Hahndorf