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taste of what we mean, pick up your rental car and head out to
Murray-Sunset National
Park
for an overnight camping trip or do the same at
Hattah-Kulkyne National Park
,
where you can camp alongside one of the Murray River's beaches.
Lake Mournpall (
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),Hattah-Kulkyne National Park
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Follow the river's path through the landscape southeast to overnight in
Swan Hill
, an-
other important provincial centre by the river. There are some great eating options here, an
attractive riverside park and other important landmarks; Swan Hill's Pioneer Settlement is
a wonderfully evocative place to learn about the town's past. On your way to Echuca,
Gunbower National Park
boasts some of the most beautiful river red gum forests in the
state and is well worth a detour.
Echuca
is arguably the pick of the Murray River towns and deserves at least two
nights. Apart from being a picturesque town in its own right - its main street is quintes-
sential rural Australia - Echuca's working paddle steamers and historic port are where the
