{"id":8718,"date":"2024-04-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-31T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/manorlakes\/lets-explore-healesville\/"},"modified":"2024-04-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-03-31T13:00:00","slug":"lets-explore-healesville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/manorlakes\/lets-explore-healesville\/","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s Explore Healesville!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Located just over an hour thirty from Manor Lakes, Healesville in Victoria\u2019s Yarra Valley\u00a0 is a &#8216;must visit&#8217; destination. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Here are our top things to see and do!<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sample Local Wine, Beer and Spirits.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The Yarra Valley is one of the world&#8217;s premier wine-growing regions, and there&#8217;s no shortage of amazing places to sample local wine, beer and spirits. Savour a glass of wine (or two) at one of Healesville\u2019s many award-winning iconic wineries including Domaine Chandon, Rochford Wines and Coldstream Hills. Sip a G&#038;T at Four Pillars Gin Distillery or down a beer or two at Matilda Bay Brewery and Watts River Brewing.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/manorlakes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/4.png\" style=\"width: 700px; height: 467px;\" \/>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>Meet your favourite Australian animals at Healesville Sanctuary.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Interact with native wildlife at one of Victoria\u2019s premier attractions. Experience the wonder of birds of prey and parrots during the &#8216;Spirits of the Sky&#8217; presentations, stare into the snarling jaws of a Tasmanian Devil, peer at a joey in its mother&#8217;s pouch or get up close and personal with over 200 species of native animals and birdlife animals as part of the Sanctuary\u2019s&#8217; Close Up Encounters&#8217; offering.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/manorlakes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Untitled20design28729.png\" style=\"width: 700px; height: 467px;\" \/>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>Get cultural at TarraWarra. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>A visit to Healesville is not complete without a look TarraWarra Museum of Art (TWMA), Host of the Archibald Prize in 2011 and 2012, TWMA is the only privately funded public art museum in the region, with an ever-changing exhibition of Australian art from the second half of the twentieth century through to the present day.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/manorlakes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Tarrawarra20Estate.jpg\" style=\"width: 1200px; height: 800px;\" \/>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>Get your retail fix.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Find artistic inspiration and pick up something for home at local jewellery, pottery and glass-blowing studios at Healesville\u2019s many speciality shops. Browse bargains in second-hand outlets, antique stores and bookshops, and stock up on fresh regional produce, handicrafts and clothing at the town\u2019s three different monthly markets.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/manorlakes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1_2.png\" style=\"width: 700px; height: 467px;\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Located just over an hour thirty from Manor Lakes, Healesville in Victoria\u2019s Yarra Valley\u00a0 is a &#8216;must visit&#8217; destination. \u00a0&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events-local-area"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/manorlakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/manorlakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/manorlakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/manorlakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/manorlakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/manorlakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/manorlakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/manorlakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/manorlakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/manorlakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}