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A Look At 5 Must Visit Attractions While In Adelaide Australia
On our amazing travels throughout Australia, we were able to include this beautiful city in our travel plans. Below, are just 5 attractions we enjoyed and highly rate as – Must Visit Attractions While In Adelaide!
With a population towering over one million, this is Australias fifth largest city. It’s continuing to grow rapidly, and I can see why.
Located approximately 700 miles east of Sydney, Adelaide was voted as Australias most livable city and in 2014, 🌎 Lonely Planet rated the city as one of the top ten must visit cities in the world!
Adelaide And The South Australian Coastline
The South Australian coastline stretches for more than 3,800 kilometers. With this, it has been touted as the primary 🐟 seafood capital in the entire country.
Its ideal 🌅 climate and regions soil base, make the region best in Australia for the production of 🍇 grapes and 🍷 wine.
This part of Australia is an absolute 🍷 wine lovers paradise!
What I really loved about Adelaide and Sydney for that matter, was the beautiful surrounding 🍷 architecture. It was amazing to see the mixture of old and new architecture throughout the city.
Thebeautifully restored homes and buildings in both cities, was so nice to see!
Adelaide is particularly well known for its 🍷 colonial stone architecture which is absolutely beautiful!
Below, are just a few great attractions we enjoyed during our short stay. Places I highly recommend taking in during your visit to this wonderful city.
Visit Adelaide’s Beautiful City Parks
Adelaide has over 29 🏞 parks located right in the city, which take up half of the surrounding area. There’s plenty of 🌳 green space available for you to enjoy!
Take a stroll in Elder Park or take a lovely walk along the River Torrens, in beautiful Linear Park.
All the parks are interconnected in one way or another. Within them, you can easily reach and visit the 🦒 Adelaide Zoo and 💐 Botanic Gardens. We walked along the river all the way to the cities 🏫 University grounds!
A great way to spend an afternoon outdoors in the beautiful warm sunshine!
We got around easily taking the cities 🚊 tram transit system. Using the tram transit, we were able to get to many places quickly and easily.
You can even get free 📶 wifi internet access while riding their tram system!
Don’t Miss The Beautiful Adelaide Zoo
Sure to be a highlight of your visit, particularly if traveling with children is the Adelaide Zoo. We combined our afternoon in the park with a visit to this amazing zoo.
Be sure to check out my post and photos I put together on the 🐫 Adelaide Zoo . A great place to visit the entire family will enjoy!
The Adelaide Zoo is a non – profit organization that prides itself on education and conservation.
With over 1800 unique animals and hundreds of other birds and mammals, it’s definitely well worth the visit!
Explore The Adelaide Central Market
The Central Market is major attraction in the city, attracting more than a million visitors annually. It’s a unique experience,and the market is filled with shops and eateries to browse through.
The Market is definitely – The Place – locals head to. Here, they can purchase their fresh and homemade goods, right from a multitude of vendors.
It’s a great place for visitors like us, to come and buy homemade 🥪 sandwiches, 🥧 pastries, 🍍 fruit and much more. In fact, we stopped by the market in the morning to do some shopping!
Later, we enjoyed a lovely picnic lunch from our purchases at the market in Elder Park.
Visiting the market in the morning, the zoo and Elder Park in the afternoon, made for a great day in Adelaide!
It was amazing to just stand back and 👩 people watch!
It felt like a local gathering place, watching everyone enjoy the cafs, checking out the various vendors and making their purchases.
The experience is like no other, and one not to be missed. Observing the variety of vendors offering fresh seafood, fruits, vegetables, meats, gourmet cheeses, fresh bakery items and so much more, was great!
If you are looking for fresh items to take back to your hotel room, then this is the place!
Take The City Transit Tram To Glenelg
Board the 🚊 tram downtown and take a scenic half hour ride to the quaint village of Glenelg. It’s located just a short ride away on the shores of Holdfast Bay.
In Glenelg, you can browse and shop along their open square mall, have a bite to eat and/or go for a stroll on the beach or along the beachfront paved walkway.
View the stunning seaside homes along the way is outstanding. Check out many of the newer luxury homes, and some beautifully restored homes as well!
Visiting Glenelg is an easy and excellent way to escape downtown and visit one of the areas most popular beaches. This is also where most marine attractions and sports depart from.
These include; dolphin sailing tours, exciting rides on high powered jet-boats, scuba diving, fishing charters and much more.
Glenelg’s Beautiful Waterfront Homes
Adelaide’s Rundle Street Mall
Our hotel was located right downtown. It was easy walking distance to the attractions, such as the Rundle Street Mall.
This is definitely a central gathering place for locals and visitors!
You can shop at the many outlets in this outdoor mall, enjoy live entertainment and dining.Visit the local🍺 pubs and stay at some of Adelaides oldest and most charming hotels.
During our visit when the 🚗 Clipsal 500 Auto Race weekend was held, this area came alive in the evening hours. It was packed with visitors and locals enjoying the race weekend!
If your accommodations are right downtown, then its hard to miss Rundle Street and the Mall.
This is a great place to stroll around during the evening hours, as we did and enjoyed during our stay.
There you have it, just a couple of great things we did and enjoyed during our short stay in the city.
Adelaide is also a central point where the famous 🚂 Ghan Luxury Train makes a stop. Passengers can board or exit as we did on our short rail journey.
We boarded the train after sightseeing in and around Alice Springs and Ayers Rock, then traveled by rail onto Adelaide.
Below, I’ve included a link to Australias premier travel website for your convenience. This tourism website offer excellent travel planning information and much more on all of Australia.
We can’t wait for a return visit to Adelaide and another vacation to Australia!
We returned for a short visit back to Australia in February of 2020. We planned a stop over on our return home to Canada from Thailand.
This time we visited the Beautiful City of Melbourne!
Be sure to check out my posts and photos here, on the many outstanding things we did during our stay in Melbourne.
Safe and Healthy Travels! 
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