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Hobart Australia Travel Guide
Now, you didn't think you could go under Down Under, did you? Well, here's Tasmania's small capital city, south of mainland Oz, where you can rummage in a bustling, open-air Saturday market on the warehouse-café-lined Salamanca Place in the old town, then kayak to a fish punt, or floating restaurant, at Constitution Dock on the waterfront for some deep-fried fish-and-chips served with tomato or tartar sauce. Or, maybe, hop on that ferry at the Brooke Street Pier and head upstream to MONA, a museum cut into sandstone cliffs, where you can lose yourself in a maze of staircases and tunnels and eye-pop at Sidney Nolan’s 1,620-paintings Snake mural and Stephen Shanabrook’s edgy, dark-chocolate sculpture depicting the remnants of a suicide bomber – no shit! Oh, and for a lick of Tassie booze, hey, just pull up a stool at a whiskey bar at, say, the Lark, Nant or Sullivan’s Cove distillery and sip away – right at the source! Wicked stuff!