Embrace the heart of the earth at the end of the world - Tasmanian Travel Chronicle, day 3

Cadenette Canyon

After leaving the market, we went to cadnet Canyon, a suburban park.

It's a suburb, but it's only a kilometer from the city center. This is actually a forest park and a nature reserve, known locally as Cadnet Canyon because of its mountains and rivers. The canyon is a 10-minute walk from the city center along the Tamar River, or follow the cliff-face trail, built in the 1890s, that offers stunning views of the South Esque River.

The southern bank of the gorge is Tasmania's first basin, with open 】grounds surrounded by swimming pools and woodland. Visitors can relax on the flat lawn, cool off under the circular building, have lunch at the restaurant and enjoy the view, or stroll across the pedestrian bridge. Occasionally there will be colorful peacocks, bouncing wallabies appear, give visitors unexpected surprise.

The most famous part of the park is the King's Bridge, which was built in 1867 and spans both sides of the gorge.

The northern shore of the tree-lined gorge, known as Cliffland, is beautifully landscapered with a Victorian garden of ferns and exotic plants.

There are also high-altitude slides for those who like adventure. The feeling of flying in the sky is so exciting that we all feel dangerous watching it, but many young people like this kind of activity.

We leave the Beautiful Hotel in Launceston and head for Cradle Hill. We arrive in Sheffield, a fresco town, at noon to visit this internationally renowned art town and have lunch. Take a look at the beautiful murals on the walls of the town's buildings.

The town of Sheffield is located at the foot of Rowland Hill. The main street is about 200-300 meters long, and there are two secondary streets, which are only about 100 meters long. There are more than 100 small houses with 1-2 stories beside all the streets. The most distinctive feature is that most of the walls of these houses are painted with various murals. The contents of the murals are varied, mainly reflecting the history and social life of the town. Some of the murals are exotic, created by foreign tourists.

It is said that there is an annual mural competition where the winning works are painted on the walls of houses in the town. Because the walls of the houses in the town are almost completely painted. Hence, the square for displaying mural art was opened here, and many display columns of mural art were built on a large lawn to display these artworks. And it is updated almost every year, especially since the award-winning works are usually placed in this place.

The mural town was originally an ordinary immigrant town on the island of Ta. Its economy is mainly agriculture, handicrafts and other traditional industries. In the mid-1980s, the global economy was in trouble, and Australia was no exception. In order to get out of economic difficulties, the townspeople came up with the idea of making murals on the houses of the town to attract tourists and promote tourism, according to the advantages of the town's location between launceston and Cradle Hill. Residents painted murals on the walls of their houses that reflected the town's history, people, businesses, agriculture and other aspects of social life, thus creating a new history of mural town.

With the development of tourism, mural Town has become increasingly famous and become a calling card of Tasmania tourism. Now the town, in addition to the overwhelming murals, but also the development of many restaurants, hotels, art, tourist souvenirs and other shopping malls. In addition, drinks and snacks retailing is also booming, and has become a real stopover for launceston and Cradle Hill.