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Bonorong Wildlife Park and Richmond Afternoon Tour from Hobart
Hobart, Australia
Get warm and friendly with a Tasmanian Devil at Bonorong Wildlife Park and get a taste of the convict days on this afternoon half-day tour from Hobart.
You'll be picked up from you Hobart hotel and travel to the Bonorong Wildlife Park to meet some of Australia's native animals - Kangaroos, Koalas, Cockatoos and Echidnas. Tour continues to one of Australia's most unique and historic towns, Richmond. A Georgian style village resplendent with mellow stone cottages will take you back in time to the convict days. Discover its convict history and visit the Richmond Gaol.
Highlights:
Constitution Dock
ABC Building - Hobart's original sandstone Railway Station
Head out the Brooker Highway passing North Hobart and Newtown
Derwent Entertainment Centre
Bonorong Wildlife Park overlooking the Brighton Valley, offering close up experiences of Australia native animals
Take a guided tour of Bonorong and learn of the habits of our native animals
Visit Richmond - one of Australia's most unique and historic towns
Time to explore Richmond - the bridge, the Gaol, convict built homes, small cottages, unique shops and restaurants
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Wildlife park was fun - lots of kangaroos to interact with as well as opportunity for a close up with a koala. Highly recommend the Bonorong Wildlife park
Review by: DandDErnst, March 2018
This was a great tour, just alittle rushed. The Bonorong Wildlife Sanctuary is small, but so informative and wonderful. This wildlife sancutary, cares deeply for all the animals that are brought here. You will love seeing all the Aussie animals. The tour of Richmond was great too, but didn't have much more than 45 minutes here. Not enough time, but well worth it anyway. Seeing the Richmond Jail was very interesting as well. I do recommend going on this tour.
Review by: Mary M, February 2018
Bonorong was informative and entertaining. Well worth the trip. The Richmond tour was only an hou, but a pretty city to wander through.
Review by: Ingrid A, January 2018
I enjoyed this trip, my only criticism would be that both the stops at Richmond and the wildlife park are too short and you feel really rushed at each location. Richmond reminded me of an old english village. The wildlife park was great and I always enjoy feeding kangaroos!
Review by: Marla F, January 2018
One of the best stops of the trip!
Review by: Mark L, December 2017
the trip to Bonorong was great. We only wish we had more time there. The interactions with the animals there were amazing.
Review by: Donatella V, December 2017
Great tour. Bonorong was the hiighlight of the afternoon. We saw lots of kangaroos and other animals. We enjoyed our super friendly and knowledgeable driver
Review by: Sheila H, December 2017
A smashing trip despite the weather - it poured all day. A great driver/guide took us first for a short stay in Richmond. We visited the local gaol and a bakery - both equally interesting. We then headed off to Bonorong. What a fantastic place! It is a sanctuary for injured and attacked animals from all over Tasmania. They aim to return the animals to the wild wherever possible too. Fed loads of kangaroos - some with joeys in their pouches. One of the staff then took us on a tour of some of the other animals including Tasmanian Devils, koalas and wombats. Her love and respect for these animals shone through. A small wildlife park but a totally worthwhile and enjoyable visit.
Review by: Geoffrey T, November 2017
enjoyed thoroughly
Review by: mercer337, November 2017
Bonorkng wildlife park was amazing!
Review by: Yahoo, November 2017
Maybe start the tour 45 minutes earlier so you can fit a walk in without feeling rushed.
Review by: PIK SAN M, August 2017
the lovely wombats and Tasmnania devils of Bonorong Wildlife Park impressed me so much 3_br/_ Richmond is a beautiful small town indeed the old bridge and the river looks like a postcard picture
Review by: Sharon W, May 2017
This was a great tour that made it easy to visit Bonorong Wildlife Sanctuary and Richmond from Hobart. The tour guide was knowledgeable and made sure we saw all the highlights. Bonorong is an amazing wildlife sanctuary and we were introduced to a wombat, tassie devils and koalas on a tour. We also could feed and pat the kangaroos, Richmond is a beautiful Georgian town with a photogenic bridge and a delightful bakery if you need a coffee. The guide was great about pick-ups from the hotel and drop offs after the visit.
Review by: Janet L, March 2017
Loved seeing the animals and interacting with the kangaroos. Needed more time at Bonorongo.
Review by: IAN S, November 2016
excellent
Review by: Andrew S, September 2016
Amazing trip and highly recommended. The tour guide, Susan, was hilarious and informative. The Richmond jail was super creepy but only because it so authentic. And how do you not want to feed kangaroos and pet all the animals?
Review by: Max B, July 2016
This tour was amazing!
Review by: nicki c, June 2016
Loved visiting with the animals and freedom to walk and be around them in their natural habitat._br/_ We also enjoyed the village.
Review by: Drew S, May 2016
A great afternoon. Left Hobart and drove to the wild life sanctuary. This is not a zoo. The animals are free roaming and the focus is on releasing back into the wild when possible. Really enjoyed our time here. Next we went to Richmond. This is a very charming village. Stopped for a quick lunch at the local tea house. It was delicious. Then went for a photo op of the bridge. Last we went through the jail. Wonderful time.
Review by: RedWagon, March 2016
Really enjoyed this tour. We also saw Richmond and the prison. We happened to see a Wedding Reception photo shoot at the Gaul.
Review by: Lynette H, March 2016
The kangaroos were up close and personal. Also saw Tasmanian devils, koalas, and emus. The Richmond tour was primarily the gaol originated in 1825 and walking around the small village.
Review by: David J, February 2016
Really enjoyed the wildlife park, especially mingling with the kangaroos. Before the tour I hadn't realized that we would be so up close and personal. The stop in Richmond was not very interesting, however.
Review by: Nichola D, December 2015
all in all a great tour, with a great driver and other helpful staff. My only negative - would be when we arrived at park the guided tour was already underway and it was not explained to join the group. however when we got it sorted a very knowledgible guide and found the information giving very informative.good amount of time for both visiting park and richmond,
Review by: Elizabeth B, November 2015
Bonorong is AMAZING! Richmond, not so much. If you can do a tour that just goes to Bonorong for less money than the combo, I'd do that. Richmond was pretty boring. My impression was that it was going to be old building after old building. Not so. There were some old buildings sprinkled around an otherwise average-looking small town. The oldest bridge in Australia in Richmond was beautiful but not worth the extra 2 hours of the tour. Also, the guide told us about a short-cut to the bridge from where he parked the bus but failed to let us know there were LOTS of steps -- we had a wheelchair!
Review by: Elaine M, May 2015
wonderful
Review by: Sharon B, May 2015
If I could I would give this tour 10 stars. Just one gripe. ....not enough time for each stop. I could have spent the whole afternoon in either place and gone back again. A tip from the wise..... don't hang around the game warden at the wild life park for too long. He loves his job and is very enthusiastic about it, but does tend to talk for too long, which cuts down on the very limited time you have in the park. There is so much to see and only an hour in which to do it. The warden will spend about 45 minutes showing you the wombat, devil and koala and the rest you are left to your own devices. There is just not enough time. As for for Richmond. .. A lovely quaint town, but also not enough time to fully explore. Maybe the tour should be broken into two?
Review by: Sharon B, April 2015
If I could I would give this tour 10 stars. Just one gripe. ....not enough time for each stop. I could have spent the whole afternoon in either place and gone back again. A tip from the wise..... don't hang around the game warden at the wild life park for too long. He loves his job and is very enthusiastic about it, but does tend to talk for too long, which cuts down on the very limited time you have in the park. There is so much to see and only an hour in which to do it. The warden will spend about 45 minutes showing you the wombat, devil and koala and the rest you are left to your own devices. There is just not enough time. As for for Richmond. .. A lovely quaint town, but also not enough time to fully explore. Maybe the tour should be broken into two?
Review by: Suzanne E, March 2015
Enjoyed meeting the wombats, kangaroos, koala and Tasmanian Devil. The tour guide was passionate about the animals in his care. Only negative point was that there just wasnt enough time to see everything!
Review by: Emma L, December 2014
Was good to get out and see some of Tasmania. I enjoyed visiting Richmond. Bonorong Wildlife Park is interesting but very small. It is a good tour to do if you have spare time but not one I would rush to do at the expense of anything else and probably not a tour I would do again.
Review by: Jeffrey S, August 2014
A bit pricey, but still a very cool tour that I highly recommend! Bonorong was awesome!! We got to feed and pet kangaroos, pet a koala and wombat, and see Tasmanian devils get fed. Plus we saw lizards and tons of birds (including emus and some birds that actually spoke to us!). The tour guide there was awesome and our driver was also great. The stop in Richmond was nice, but perhaps a bit too long. The old town is quaint and pretty, but there's not too much to do there.
Review by: ANITA S, December 2013
Bonorong Wildlife Park was awesome but I wish that we could have spent at least 2 hours there instead of 1. Time at Richmond could be shorter would be good.
Review by: Kathy S, June 2013
We enjoyed feeding the kangaroos and the other wild life.
Review by: Joyce Cameron F, March 2013
See above
Review by: Eve K, April 2012
The wildlife Park was quite natural and allowed excellent time with interaction with the animals. The only complaint I had was that there was not enough time in Richmond to really check our the town and it's history. The tour should be extended to allow more time in the town. We got lucky and had Kevin drive us on this tour aswell, and it felt like a family trip. Even with the limited time in Richmond, it's a must do trip! Desmond
Review by: Grace H, February 2010
It was ok.
Review by: , February 2010
I wish we could have had more time. It was too rushed.
Review by: Augustine W, February 2010
I wish we could have had more time. It was too rushed.
Review by: Anonymous, February 2010
I wish we could have had more time. It was too rushed.
Review by: Grace H, Australia, January 2010
It was ok.
Review by: Anonymous, Australia, November 2006
I wish we could have had more time. It was too rushed.
Review by: Augustine W, November 2006
I wish we could have had more time. It was too rushed.
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