Historic Village Only 30 Minutes from Canberra
- February 3, 2009
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Poole Party from everywhere, Virginia
Bungendore is an historic village that was settled in 1837. It is similar to Gold Creek Village, but much bigger.
Attractions include art galleries, studios and crafts galleries featuring beautiful wood works, sculpture and furniture, as well as fantastic leather works. There is also a huge vintage antique store at the Molonglo St entrance of Bungendore.
There are also fine food cafes and restaurants to quench your thirst and feed you while you are wandering around the village.
If you are looking to spend the night en route to somewhere else, there are several accommodations in town - from the quaint looking Royal hotel to the Old Stone House which is a B & B.
There is a large playground at one end of Bungendore, which incidentally is where the bathrooms are for the town. This is the one downfall of visiting here. Unless you eat at the restaurants, you have to use the public bathrooms in the park.
If you like galleries and small town shops with quaint gifts, this is a nice place to spend a couple of hours (max), or a nice stopover town en route to your destination.
From journal Things to Do around Canberra