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A private Dandenong Ranges tour with a real old-growth forest walk and Alfred Nicholas Memorial Garden.
A private tour for your group only, real old-growth forest walk, the genuine Alfred Nicholas Memorial Garden, and the Dandenong Ranges Botanic Gardens.
This is a private tour for your group only. Real stops include an old-growth forest walk, the genuine Alfred Nicholas Memorial Garden, and the Dandenong Ranges Botanic Gardens.
A popular starting point — every Voyzo itinerary is fully customizable, so we'll shape the order and stops around your group.
Hotel pickup in Melbourne.
Genuine cool-climate rainforest.
Genuine landscaped grounds.
Just your group.
Back to your hotel, home, or the airport — whenever your day wraps up.
A private tour for your group only, real old-growth forest walk, the genuine Alfred Nicholas Memorial Garden, and the Dandenong Ranges Botanic Gardens. This is a private tour for your group only. Real stops include an old-growth forest walk, the genuine Alfred Nicholas Memorial Garden, and the Dandenong Ranges Botanic Gardens.
The Dandenong Ranges rise only 35–45 kilometres east of central Melbourne, yet the cool, damp forest that covers them feels like a different world entirely. The high point of the range, Mount Dandenong, reaches around 633 metres, and the slopes below it support genuine cool-temperate rainforest and towering mountain ash forest — mountain ash (Eucalyptus regnans) is among the tallest flowering plants on Earth, and beneath its canopy grow dense stands of soft tree ferns that have made the Dandenongs one of Melbourne's most popular nature day trips for well over a century.
The Alfred Nicholas Memorial Garden is a real, and genuinely unusual, piece of that history. It began as the private garden of Burnham Beeches, a mountain retreat built between 1929 and 1939 by Alfred Nicholas, who — together with his brother George — created Aspro, Australia's first locally manufactured aspirin, and built a fortune from it. The garden he commissioned is laid out around a terraced lake with a boathouse, rock walls and sweeping lawns, planted with rhododendrons and exotic European and North American trees that thrive in the cool Dandenong climate. The Nicholas family's 13-hectare garden passed to the State of Victoria in 1973 and has been open to the public ever since.
The Dandenong Ranges Botanic Garden tells a parallel but separate story. It was established in 1960 by the Australian Rhododendron Society, which leased 100 acres of government land near Olinda — under the name National Rhododendron Garden — specifically because the Dandenongs receive two to three times Melbourne's rainfall and run roughly five degrees cooler, ideal growing conditions for cool-climate species. A major bushfire tore through the site in 1962, destroying much of the original planting, but the garden was rebuilt and has grown into a 42-hectare cool-climate garden, renamed the Dandenong Ranges Botanic Garden in 2017 and now considered one of the most significant of its kind in Australia.
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