Inside the Canberra Travel Guide

Top Hotels in Canberra

Saville Park Suites

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Choose from hotel rooms or suites with luxury facilities at Saville Park. In superior and premium suites you can enjoy the view of Canberra city from your …

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Novotel Canberra

Canberra Motor Village

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Introduction

Canberra is often described by Australians who haven't been there as a boring town, full of politicians, bureaucrats - and not much else. But those who go there find beautiful galleries and museums clustered around a lake and cupped in bushland.

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Not to miss

Australian National Botanic Gardens On the lower slopes of Black Mountain, behind the Australian National University, the beautiful 50-hectare (123-acre) botanic gardens are devoted to Australian flora. There are educational walks, including one among plants used by Aborigines. A …

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Facts for the Traveller

Population : 309500 Area : 287km² Longitude / Latitude : 149.042007446 / -35.3499984741 Currency : Australian Dollar (AUD) Weights & Measures system : Metric

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Getting there & Getting around

Getting there Flights connect Canberra with all Australian state capital cities, and from some of the bigger towns within NSW. (If you are travelling to Canberra from one of the smaller state capitals you may have to make a stopover in Sydney or Melbourne on the way). The airport is 7km (4mi) …

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History

Recent History Despite self-government, Canberra's fortunes are still decided by those in the big house under the hill. The city lives or dies with its public servants, and when the Howard Government reduced their numbers in the mid-90s, Canberra died a little, with businesses throughout the …

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Weather

Canberra's a chilly little place. It basks in some good old-fashioned Aussie sun during the summer months (December to February) and Autumn is delicious - clear and cool - but the winters can bite, althought there's usually bright skies to take the sting out of the brrr. Spring can be damp. Summary …

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Overview of Canberra

If you mention you're heading to Canberra (pronounced Can-bra, with very open vowels), most Australians will raise an eyebrow and say, Why bother? Even many Canberrans will admit that it's a great place to live but they wouldn't want to visit. So what is it about Canberra that draws so much …

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