Tourism

Take a deep breath because you are about to take off with Active Flight Paragliding.  Launch into a Tandem Paraglide over Victoria’s spectacular high country and experience the ultimate mix of amazing scenery and jaw dropping excitement while you soar like a bird.   If your tandem paragliding adventure leaves you hanging for more then Active Flight offers the perfect one or two day Paragliding Introductory Courses.  Active Flight also offers a full range of  Paragliding Licence Courses and advanced courses to help develop your skills in Competition, Cross Country, SIV, Tandem and Towing.

Active Flight have the most experienced tandem pilots and instructors in Australia. With over twenty years of flying experience their team is led by seven times Australian Champion, Fred Gungl.

Located in Bright, North East Victoria Active Flight is Australia’s premiere Paragliding Training Facility.
Feel secure and fly with the best.

The Art Gallery of Ballarat is Australia’s oldest regional gallery with a remarkably comprehensive collection of Australian art.

During the Archibald Prize the Gallery’s permanent collection of Australian art will remain on display. Visitors will have the opportunity to walk through the history of Australian art, with important representative works from colonial to contemporary periods.

A free exhibition focusing on key works from the Gallery’s collection of 50s-60s Art will also be on display.

The heritage-listed Gallery building, one of the oldest purpose-built art galleries in the country, has evolved to accommodate the expanding collection and now includes a range of spaces from grand and elegant 19th century rooms to stunning contemporary additions.

Asylum Ghost Tours offers ghost tours, history tours, paranormal investigations, horror-film festivals, accommodation, and any combination of these experiences.

All held at the historic Mayday Hills Lunatic Asylum at Beechworth, Victoria, in the midst of eleven hectares of heritage gardens. Let the experienced guides tell you all the secrets of the place, relax in a comfortable lounge chair to watch a horror double-feature, or take advantage of the accommodation options.

History Tours – while the sun shines, take in the knowledge of the historic buildings of the former Mayday Hills Lunatic Asylum.

Photography Tours – Escorted tours through the facility for photographers and film-makers.

Ghost Tours – after darkness falls, take a tour of the dark and haunted buildings of the former home for the infirm of mind.

Paranormal Investigations – when all is quiet and the dead things open their eyes, take a two or three hour investigations to attempt to find out who or what really does haunt the foreboding asylum.

Horror Film Marathons – come and enjoy a film marathon in total comfort in the main hall, where the patients used to enjoy the same thing.

Overnight in the Asylum – Stay in a suite of adjoining rooms, with space for up to eight people at once, or bigger groups can bed down in the haunted theatre hall. DVD player and television supplied.