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✨ 12 Days of Christmas light-up Aussie animal trail, Melbourne CBD

Melbourne, Victoria

12 Days of Christmas light-up Aussie animal trail, Melbourne CBD
🕐 27 Nov to 25 Dec
💰 Free
📍 Across the CBD, from Fed Square to Flinders Street Station, Bourke St and laneways
☕ Nearest coffee: Code Black Coffee, 100m away
🚻 Nearest public toilet: 60m away

A free self-guided city trail of 12 light-up Australian animal displays based on the Twelve Days of Christmas, from a kookaburra at Fed Square to 12 possums in Bourke Square. Kids can count the wombats, emus and koalas as they go.

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