Victoria Australia Complete Guide 2026: Melbourne, Great Ocean Road, Grampians and Phillip Island
Browse more guides: Australia travel | Oceania destinations Victoria Australia Complete Guide 2026: Melbourne, Great Ocean Road, Grampians and Phillip Island TL;DR I have planned trips to Victoria for friends and family over the past decade, and the same realization keeps surfacing. Victoria is not a single destination. It is a compact state where I can stand on a 297m skydeck at 5pm, watch fairy penguins waddle out of the surf the next evening, and stare at 25 million year old limestone stacks two days later. Melbourne is the anchor. The Economist Intelligence Unit ranked it the world's most liveable city seven straight years from 2011 to 2017 and again in 2022. In this guide I cover what I actually use. Melbourne for laneway art, the Royal Exhibition Building (UNESCO 2004), the 100,024-seat MCG and Queen Victoria Market trading since 1878. The Great Ocean Road, 243km of cliff-edge tarmac finished in 1932 as a war memorial, hugging the 12 Apostles and Loch Ard Gorge. Phillip...