Chosen for its central position we began as is usual with a trip to the lookout photos not worthwhile due to fog and clouds, however they burned off later.
The Gum San Chinese Centre is a special building with a typical style roof donated by Ararat's sister city Taishan and said to be worth $400,000. We learned much about the culture of China, the miners' journey to Australia and why they trekked from Robe in South Australia to Ararat in
Victoria; toured a pretend mine; John spent some time panning for gold, unsuccessfully, we are no richer !
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I've been busy with catching up on my UNI studies and haven't you taken advantage of it with heaps of posts.
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