Exploring Unique Tourist Activities in Australia Blog Post

This blog post examines two unique tourist activities in Australia: the Heide Museum of Modern Art and the Blue Mountains National Park. The Heide Museum offers an immersive experience through its modern and contemporary art exhibitions, gardens, and sculpture park, fostering a hub for artists and thinkers. The Blue Mountains National Park provides an array of adventure activities like horse riding, hiking, and exploration of natural wonders, including the Three Sisters rock formation. The post highlights how these destinations cater to various tourist consumer groups, providing both cultural and adventurous experiences, supported by academic research and other sources, fulfilling the assignment brief's requirements for a blog post discussing immersive tourism experiences.

RUNNING HEAD: Tourist experience 0
Tourist experience
My blog post 2

Tourist experience 1
Contents
Unique tourist activities available in Australia......................................................................................2
How activities offer immerse experience...............................................................................................3
References.............................................................................................................................................5

Tourist experience 2
Unique tourist activities available in Australia
Heide Museum of contemporary art is also identified as Heide. It is an art museum in
Bulleen, a suburb of Melbourne. The museum is situated on the former floodplain of the
Yarra River, Bulleen. Heide was established in 1981. Since then it has become popular tourist
activity. The museum represents modern and contemporary arts. It includes three unique
exhibition buildings, Heide l, ll and lll along with the extensive gardens and Sculpture Park.
The museum is more of a hub where writers, artists and thinkers share their progressive social
and cultural ideals. There are also gift shop and Café Vue along with three museum spaces.
The museum is located just twenty minutes away from the city. The redevelopment of the
museum in 2005-2006 added more installation art, new education centre, gallery space and
Heide lll. The exhibitions and programs are even arranged at the museum which represents
the fascinating history. The tourists can register on the website for such exhibitions
(Kowalski & Tse, 2013).
Blue Mountains national park is placed at the Blue Mountains province of New South
Wales, eastern Australia. The park is a part of the traditional country of Aboriginal people. It
is an ideal destination for the romantic gateway and family escape. The Blue Mountains
national park discovers the waterfalls, iconic lookouts, walking tracks, aboriginal culture,
adventure spots and camping. The national park includes six areas in the park such as
Katoomba area, Blackheath area, Glenbrook area, Lower grose valley area, Mount Wilson
area and Southern Blue Mountains area. The Blue Mountains national park is also
enumerated at the on the Australian Heritage register and its hiking tracks is recorded on the

Tourist experience 3
State heritage catalogue (In Australein, 2019). The Blue Mountains national park is the
furthermost visited national park in Australia. The national park assists visitors in
experiencing the activities in the park safely. The park has attained popularity for Three
Sisters rock formation.
How activities offer immerse experience
Heide is an arrangement of modern art gallery, Heritage Park and antique art museum.
Heide Museum focuses on the Australian modernism and champions’ contemporary
Australian art. The museum provides immerse experience to the tourists through the
exhibition of the international contemporary art (Melbourne, 2019). The museum has fostered
the local modernist movement of the 1930s and 1940s. The best motive to visit the museum
is its attractive location. The museum is set upon a massive lavish woodland. Heide is must
visit place and a major part of the Australia tourism. The tourists can get fascinated by the
existing history of the Melbourne in the museum. They can even take a turn across Heide’s
enormous serene area and drive into the ancient. The tourists who are inspired by the art
should definitely visit Heide as it can provide lifetime experience to them.
The visitors across the world come to experience the natural wonders of the Blue
Mountains and explore the park. The visitors can experience the extensive range of the
adventure activities in the park. The activities offered by the Blue Mountains Park are horse
riding, go 4W driving, mountain parking and adventure activities such as caving, abseiling,

Tourist experience 4
canyoning, rock climbing and canoeing. Other than the adventures, there are so many
beautiful picnic spots and BBQ areas in the park (Vilcins, et al. 2002). There are lakes,
swimming holes and natural wonders which are waiting to be discovered. The Scenic World
in Katoomba on the edge of the National Park attracts a great number of visitors. The Blue
Mountains can be viewed in a number of ways like with the Scenic Railway, Scenic
Cableway, Scenic Walkway and Scenic skyway.

Tourist experience 5
References
In Australein, 2019. Blue Mountains National Park: Three Sisters, Katooma, Leura & Co.
Retrieved April 5, 2019 from https://www.in-australien.com/blue-mountains-national-
park_1041444
Kowalski, V., & Tse, N. (2013). Arthur Boyd’s painting materials in the 1940s: a case study
of works from the Heide Museum of Modern Art Collection. AICCM bulletin, 34(1),
24-33.
Melbourne, 2019. Heide Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved April 5, 2019 from
https://www.visitmelbourne.com/regions/melbourne/things-to-do/art-theatre-and-
culture/art-galleries/heide-museum-of-modern-art
Vilcins, I., Krockenberger, M., Agus, H., & Carter, D. (2002). Environmental sampling for
Cryptococcus neoformans var. gattii from the Blue Mountains National Park, Sydney,
Australia. Medical mycology, 40(1), 53-60.