Category: Greater Bendigo City Council
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Castlemaine & Bendigo — a loop through Victoria’s most opulent landscape
Route Guide: Melbourne – Calder Fwy – Harcourt – Castlemaine – Chewton – Maldon – Newstead – Bendigo – Return via Calder or Midland In 1851 alluvial gold was discovered in Forest Creek at what would become Castlemaine, and within weeks tens of thousands of people had transformed a wilderness into the most densely populated…
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Largest Buddhist Stupa in the Western world, Bendigo
Mirroring the size and design of Tibet’s historic Gyantse Kumbum stupa, The Great Stupa of Universal Compassion in Bendigo stands proudly at a soaring height of 50 meters, extending across seven levels, all atop a substantial 50 square-meter base. Our encounter with this monumental temple left us in awe, captivated by its grandeur from the…
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