The Hume Highway
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| Patterson's Curse flowers near the Hume Highway, Gundagai |
The Hume Highway is Australia's most important highway, linking the county's two major cities, Sydney, New South Wales, and Melbourne. Victoria. It's mostly (80%) four lane freeway, with a few brief exceptions on the New South Wales side. Most of the towns on the 900km route have been bypassed and replaced with giant roadside service centres. It's not the most scenic route in the country, but it's not ugly either.
The countryside around Gundagai in NSW (about a third of the way from Sydney) is very pretty in Spring, or after rain. You easily can drive all 900km (the entire length of Britain) in a day if you're keen and it will take you about 10-11 hours, but there are plenty of nice places to stop along the way and there's a motel or hotel at least every half an hour or so. The drive is worth if you've got a spare day and you want to see lots of undulating sheep country, but if you're pressed for time, it's actually cheaper to catch a plane and there are nicer day drives in and around Sydney and Melbourne anyway.
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