This tour will show the visitor the stunning architecture, sweeping gardens and beautiful churches that Adelaide has to offer.

Visit Chinatown, the 142-year-old Central Market and Victoria Square before heading out of the city and into the Mt Lofty Ranges.

Enjoy spectacular views over Adelaide, Glenelg Beach and Gulf St Vincent.

Travel through rolling countryside passing many market gardens and villages set amongst the lush greenness of the Adelaide Hills before arriving at the village of Hahndorf.

The area was settled by Prussian immigrants in 1838, and Hahndorf is the oldest surviving German settlement in Australia.

The village has been faithfully restored and maintains a very strong German character with its bakers and wurst-makers and a wide variety of local art and craft.

South Australia stands out among the regions of the continent for its unique atmosphere and charm. A desert and semi-desert climate shapes the calm and relaxed life of the state, which was founded by free settlers in the mid-19th century. Most of the pioneers were young English workers with strong religious convictions, along with several thousand Lutherans who left Germany to escape persecution for their faith.

Adelaide (population about 1.5 million) lies in the valley of the River Torrens between the Gulf St Vincent and the Mount Lofty foothills, with national parks and wine regions nearby. It is regarded as one of the most attractive and best planned cities in the world, alongside Washington in the US and Edinburgh in Scotland, laid out in a symmetrical grid with parks and residential areas separated by wide boulevards. The city is known for its colonial architecture and bluestone buildings, elegant fountains and statues and many churches of different denominations.

On the sightseeing tour you will see and visit:

• The cultural centre of the city between North Terrace and the River Torrens
• The fine 19th-century public buildings: the library, the art gallery and the university
• Parliament House, with its marble Corinthian columns (1939)
• The Festival Centre
• The historic Botanic Garden, with lush vegetation and artificial lakes (1855)
• Victoria Square, with its fountain of the three rivers that supply the city with water
• The General Post Office, with its ornate entrance and tall clock tower (1872)
• St Francis Xavier's Cathedral (1858-1996)
• The Supreme Court, with its Palladian facade (mid-1860s)
• Adelaide Town Hall in the Italian style (1866), which hosts concerts and receptions
• Edmund Wright House (1878), a showpiece of 19th-century local architecture
• The Central Market, which has traded fresh local produce for more than 125 years
• The South Australian Museum, with its unique collection of Aboriginal culture (optional)
• Rundle Mall, known for its boutiques and shops
• The best lookouts, with views over the city, the coast and the wooded Adelaide Hills
• A stop at the German village of Hahndorf, founded in 1838, with its bakeries, sausage makers and shops with souvenirs and local crafts, just like in Bavaria

All entrance fees are extra.