High-score Australian television series Travel Guides comes to Canberra tonight (2 April) for its remaining episode of the season – shining a countrywide highlight on most of the bush capital’s top attractions, such as Jamala Wildlife Lodge, Parliament House, Floriade, GoBoat and the Australian Institute of Sport.
The humorous Nine Network reality series closing week topped its time slot with 915,000 visitors and this week is out to find out if “there’s greater to Canberra than pollies and public servants”.
The 5 extraordinary companies of ordinary Aussies became travel critics will take in the attractions of our city and bask in various antics inside the technique.
On the go to to Parliament House, we can apparently see the popular Fren circle of relatives from Newcastle discover the mystery of the lacking Prime Ministerial photographs earlier than “rolling down the building’s grassy roof on their bellies”.
Then they’ll drop into the Australian Institute of Sport where visitors can have the taxing undertaking of seeing if they could inform the distinction among the Frens and the state’s elite athletes.
Filming for the episode passed off among September 22 and 30 for the duration of Floriade final year but it’s been saved below wraps until now.
VisitCanberra Director Jonathan Kobus sees the fact display’s go to to Canberra as a wonderful manner to exhibit the metropolis’s attractions.
“Being featured on Travel Guides is a fantastic way for Canberra to show the variety of reviews our metropolis gives various audiences,” Mr. Kobus stated.
“And having the display screen on Budget Day suggests there’s extra to Canberra than politics. We’re hopeful the Travel Guides target audience will see that too.”
For the courses themselves, it’s all approximately laughing even as they training session what the number of stars to provide their Canberra vacation.
Twin sisters Stack and Mel by accident go away their mark on Floriade on the way to take the proper selfie while at night they hit “terrifying heights” at the Ferris wheel at Floriade’s NightFest.
Best pals Kev, Dorian and Teng, add to the movement once they have an not going romantic encounter in the basket of a hot air balloon as they take in Canberra’s views.
The publications can even find out Canberra’s ‘wild aspect’ as they spend the night time at Jamala Wildlife Lodge and discover what it is want to sleep in close proximity to cheetahs, lions and tigers.
It seems that a number of Canberra’s greater notorious sights additionally get a glance in.
“Driving throughout city, the highlight for a few is a glimpse of the capital’s most infamous, and phallic-formed, out of doors sculpture,” says the program’s publicity unit.
On their very last day in Canberra, the courses captain a GoBoat on Lake Burley Griffin, but, perhaps no longer extraordinarily, the Fren family’s navigation abilities depart loads to be favored.
The Travel Guides Canberra episode displays day after today night time (2 April) at 8:40 pm on Channel Nine.
Below is a promotional video of the episode sourced from Nine’s Travel Guides Facebook web page.
