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Here are some drop-dead wonderful botanical gardens where you can fill your mind with facts as well as filling your camera roll with beautiful pictures.
Cape Town, South Africa
Rhodes Drive, Newlands, 7735 Cape Town, South Africa.
Kissing the east side of Table Mountain, Kirstenbosch is one of the world's most biodiverse gardens and a leader in conservation science. The sprawling site contains incredible forms of flora and near-endangered plants that have been cultivated since the early 1900s. Explore at ground level or from up above along "the Boomslang" , a treetop walkway.
Don't miss: The beautiful sculpture garden includes a bust of Nelson Mandela and breathtaking Mambo sculptures, carved from opal stone(蛋白石).
Singapore Botanical Gardens
1 Cluny Rd, 259569 Singapore.
This place is called the Disneyland of Botanical Gardens. Now 160 years old, the tropical garden has it all:a section of the city's primary rainforest, an orchid garden, a ginger garden and an exhibition on ethnobotany, plus some wise old trees. It even has a pair of swans from Amsterdam, a national flower called Vanda Miss Joaquim and its own mist garden.
Don't miss:The National Orchid Garden with more than 1 000 species and 2 000 hybrids on display, plus a series of special tools and equipment to ensure the right humidity(湿度).
Ryoan-ji Temple, Kyoto, Japan
13 Ryoanji Goryonoshitacho, Ukyo Ward, Kyoto 616 -8001, Japan.
While Kyoto's bonsai-and bamboo-filled botanical gardens are worth a visit, you should also check out the city's Zen Buddhist temple. Set inside a fifteenth-century temple, this is a place for reflection. For maximum zen(禅/禅宗),walk the grounds and a lake flanked by Japanese blossom and maple trees.
Don't miss: Try the local delicacy, yudofu(boiled tofu)at the temple's traditional restaurant.
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