Flecker Botanic Gardens is located in Cairns, a famous tourist city on the northeast coast of Queensland.
Founded in 1886, Flecker Botanic Gardens is the only wet tropical botanical garden in Australia and was listed on Queensland Heritage list (Queensland Heritage Register). On February 2, 2007.
Flecker Botanic Gardens's campus consists of three main components:
- Flecker Botanic Gardens: 's main plant collection area, orchid houses, "ferns" and indigenous plant plantations use gardens, where coconut trees and wooden sheep teeth are collected in a unique size in Australia, and free tours are organized at the information center every Tuesday and 10:00 on Thursday. There is also the award-winning Botanical Garden Restaurant Cafe, which offers breakfast and lunch;
- Century Lake: there are the most wonderful rain trees, Amazon lotus flowers, native fruit trees, rich birds, freshwater lakes and saltwater lakes, occasionally crocodiles;
- Whitfield Mountain Conservation Park: the famous Red and Blue Arrowhead Walk offers amazing views of Cairns and Trinity Bay, where you can occasionally see the mound pheasant birds and the orange foot Pheasant pheasant.
How to get to:
- Self-driving;
- Take bus No. 131 in downtown Cairns and get off at Collins Ave at Cairns Botanic Gard station.
