In the Sovereign Hill recreation of the 1850s goldfields in Ballarat, Australia, you can watch the pouring of $80,000 worth of gold and learn how history of independence from England began there.
A two-year-old boy joins in a performance at the Tjakukai Aboriginal Cultural Center near Cairns and steals the show. Didn't anyone tell them that you should never go onstage with an animal or a child>
At the Walter Peak High Country Farm near Queenstown, NZ, you can watch dogs rounding up sheep and see a shearing demonstration. Amazing how they get the sheep to relax by putting them on their backs.
