Sydney is not only made with skyscrapers and night clubs, Sydney also has green spaces such as Hyde Park, but above all as the Royal Botanic Gardens, the botanical gardens of the city.
Why we suggest you to go see them? Because it is a way to break away from the crowded city, a way to forget that you are in the center of a vigorous city and that, sometimes, we forget what the silence is.
WHAT TO SEE IN THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS
The Royal Botanic Gardens, are located very close to Circular Quay, the city center and look out over Sydney Harbour, looking at the Harbour Bridge. Inside, the gardens are filled with plants and are about 7500 species, distributed in about 30 hectares of space.
In the Royal Botanic Gardens there are different paths to follow to visit and see the best of the gardens, which are free and open daily.
Colorful parrots, foxes and bats are the main inhabitants of this green paradise, but do not let impress, however, be fascinated by the beauty of creatures that you don't usually see, as the parrots with a yellow crest.
When it gets dark, the hanging bats wake up and fly up in group, the sky turns black, is a show that you don'tever see anywhere else.
Inside the gardens, though, there are not only trees and flowers to see, but also the Gorvernment House, built between 1837 and 1845. This building was the home of the State's governor of NSW, until 1996, with an interruption from 1901 to 1914.
WHERE TO STAY CLOSE TO THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS
To sleep near to the Royal Botanic Gardens in Sydney, we recommend a very cheap hostel, the Elephant Backpacker Sydney, a hostel in the middle between the city center and Kings Cross area, famous for its nightlife.
Slightly further away, but with a terrace from which you can see the whole city is the Sydney Star Backpacker, a beautiful hostel, with even a mural inside.
Cover Photo By Falco
