I generally don't travel with any preconcieved ideas about any particular destination, but Nimbin has always been known as being an "out there hippy" kind of place with its fair amount of "alternative lifestyle" tambourine and/or triangle tapping, pot smoking "Greenies" with a penchant for environmentalism at all costs.
Wikipedia describes the town as "being notable for the prominence of its environmental initiatives such as permaculture, sustainability, and self-sufficiency, as well as the cannabis counterculture".
Having now visited the place, I can concur with the previous two opening praragraphs. It's probably best summed up by some writer named Austin Pick who apparently describes his initial vidit as such: "It is as if a smoky avenue of Amsterdam has been placed in the middle of the mountains behind frontier-style building facades. ... Nimbin is a strange place indeed."
I can however attest to the fact that some locals may not be true believers, as witnessed by them having totally embraced capitolism and free market trading. Call it what you want - marijuana, dope, pot, grass, weed, head, mary jane, doobie, bud, ganja or whatever, but we were offered it 3 times just walking down just the one side of the main street, and that runs for only a hundred metres or so.
On place well worth a visit was the Nimbin Bakery which does some pretty good meat pies.

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