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Raven Tours
Things To Do Kelso, Townsville, Queensland
Cultural and Theme Tours
Join an award winning tour guide that provides excellent service and exceptional experiences for small personalised groups.
Love food then a Taste of Hinchinbrook Food and Wine Tour is for you, take a step back in time and hear the stories of yesteryear and explore a live gold field on a historic Ravenswood tour, The Great Historic Hotel Tour offers the history of Townsville’s old hotels, hear murder stories, explore old hotels and comes with complimentary drinks! or breathe in nature on a waterfall tour into one of the worlds most important wet tropics.
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$110
Come on a journey back in time and discover the history of Townsville and its early explorers, pioneers and founders. This tour will take you to the heritage Tea rooms at Herveys Range for morning Tea. Before heading back into town to hear about the history of how Townsville was discovered. Hear murder stories, drunk goat stories and about life and drunkenness back in the Victorian era. Travel in an air-conditioned bus as you explore the streets of Townsville and hear their history.
The duration of the tour is approximately four hours.
Disabled Access
Family Friendly$145
Explore nature, discover Ravenswood, experience history.
Ravenswood is fondly called the ghost town that won’t die. It’s an experience that takes you back in time to a historic gold mining town set in a serene natural environment.
The tour offers passionate tour guides that take guests on a relaxing and informative journey where you discover natural wonders, explore heritage-listed buildings, hear of a tales from another era and how life was in the times of the gold rush era and more.
There is still plenty of heritage in Ravenswood to make you feel you have stepped back in time. You are shuttled around in an air-conditioned bus to all of the attractions where you can explore each one at your own pace. There is plenty to experience in this old town.
Your accommodation is in one of two hotels which both were built-in 1902. Some say they are still haunted from the past century.
Raven Tours offer a day tour and an overnight tour which also includes a sunset tour set in nature. It’s an opportunity to relax and unwind in a time long gone.
Disabled Access
Family Friendly$150
This tour is definitely one for the food lover!
The itinerary has been carefully planned to include many of the hidden gems in the Hinchinbrook area.
Supporting local, amazing food to sample, discounted produce on the day, and no need to drive.
You will graze your way through the day tasting many varieties of food samples on offer and meet and greet the business owners as they tell you there stories of their business and produce.
If you choose to purchase some of the delicious goods on sale, Raven Tours will carry eskies on board to keep your fresh produce chilled.
If you are on the Overnight Experience; we stay at Lee’s Hotel (The Famous pub with no beer) and will dine in the Herbert Valley Steak House. Sunday we take a trip to the TYTO Art Gallery, Wetlands and Mungalla Station for a powerful pioneer tour and a big bush barbecue for lunch.
Disabled Access
$245
Ravenswood is a gem. This tour offers passionate tour guides that take guests on a relaxing and informative journey where you discover natural wonders, explore heritage-listed buildings, hear of a tales from another era and how life was in the times of the gold rush era, the rise and fall of Ravenswood and the man they called the Uncrowned King of Ravenswood.
If you are on the Ravenswood Overnight Outback Adventure accommodation is in one of two hotels which both were built-in 1902. Some say they are still haunted from the past century.
We leave Townsville at 8:30 am Saturday morning and arrive in Ravenswood around 10 am.
The tour of Ravenswood is for a minimum of 4.5 hours and is completed around 3:30 pm.
Lunch is also provided midway through the tour. You then have the afternoon to explore your accommodation, relax with a cold drink, watch an outback sunset and freshen up a bit before dinner.
Sunday morning we enjoy breakfast then head into the bush to discover an old silver mining ghost town before heading back to town.
Sorry, its time to go home!
Disabled Access
Family Friendly$430
This tour is definitely one for the food lover! Discover the Hinchinbrooks local food, throw a few bottles of wine in and everyone is full and happy! This is the ultimate weekend away with a stay overnight in the original pub with no beer at Lee’s hotel with dinner at the Herbert Valley Steak House! Then a leisurely walk the following day through the TYTO wet lands, the art gallery.
Note: Depending on the seasons and businesses availability will determine the tour destinations.
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$2275
Four nights five days seeing some of the amazing sites that Atherton has to offer.
Tour Inclusions
Bus trip to the Atherton Tablelands and return
Four nights accommodation
13 Meals – Four Breakfast, Five Lunches, Four Dinners
Milla Milla Waterfall Circuit
Herberton Historical Village
Hou Wang Chinese Temple
Granite Gorge Tour Destination
Coffee Works
Golden Drop Winery – tastings and purchases are an optional cost
Mt Uncle Distillery – tastings and purchases are an optional cost
Emerald Creek Ice Creamery
Mareeba Pioneer Village
Yungaburra Avenue of Honour
Giant Fig Tree
Lake Barrine Boat Cruise
Malanda Waterfall
Nerada Tea
Mamu Tropical Rainforest
El Arish Hotel for lunch
Return to Townsville
Disclaimer: All attractions depend on availability.
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