Tuesday, May 27, 2008
seventh day in the land of the roos...WENT TO SOVERIGN HILL, Ballarat.its like some 80s place.the ppl dressed like that and then the shops all sell the stuff and everything is like back in the gold rush period. the place reenacts the victorian goldrush period. then i went underground in this tour..nice.they even had the old drills.loud sia. watched as the tour guide went to places all of us could not. she had this camera that fed the tv. took a mine train out after that. walked about and bought a meat pie.beef. and a choco biscuit.cookie.large. the beef pie is called a miners pie.they also sold a HUGE one. miners biscuit is made of oats, honey, milk and butter.
at the goldpour, they actually showed us how they cast gold. they heated the thing to 2000deg and then poured it in a mould, cooled it and thrown it in the water, giving rise to a gold ingot, worth a whopping $96,000!! they actually let ppl hold it! coolio.when they gave it to an adult (cus there were lots of kids, school excursion..), the goldsmith took out an old handgun.funny right? his reason? adults are more dangerous =)
took a horse coach ride.not bad. checked out the tents and house and stuff.nice sia.then made my way baq to the coach and go home le. had bak kut teh for dinner.tired.dun wanna blog lots.
Labels: in the land down under
I went off at
8:30 PM
