Royal Botanic Garden Sydney is one of the top three Botanical gardens in the city, open to the public. The other two are Botanical garden mount Anna and Botanical garden "mount Volume".

Royal Botanic gardens and close to the business heart of Sydney, in the vicinity of other important city landmarks – National library, Sydney Opera house, Sydney Harbour and the houses of Parliament. The history of the garden dates back to 1788, when by order of the Governor of the colony of New South Wales Arthur Phillip was broken by a small agricultural farm, which became the country's first. Almost 30 years of local gardeners worked on the beautification of the area and fertilizer and moisture of the soil, until in 1816 on the site of the farm was not established research center, called "Royal Botanic gardens" and today is the oldest in Australia. In a relatively short period on a plot of land of 30 hectares was created a wonderful corner of nature, where you can see an incredible variety of plant species on our planet – more than 7,500! - including those who are on the verge of extinction.

Among the interesting thematic exhibitions gardens – palm grove, greenhouse ferns, garden of cacti and succulents and a luxurious rose garden. And one of the main attractions of the garden are Vollemskie pine is perhaps the oldest plants on Earth, until recently, considered extinct. Only in 1994 the Australian botanists lucky enough to spot these pine trees in one of the gorges of the continent, and today they are cultivated in the Botanical garden.

Naturally, where there are plants, sooner or later appear in animals. And in the Royal Botanical garden you can see a variety of native species, primarily multi-colored parrots and other tropical birds. In the trees the bats nest and foxes, and at night in the garden of opossums roam. By the way, flying foxes there are about 22 thousand!

Between the alleys of the garden is arranged a number of small water bodies over which you can walk through decorative bridges, and hidden a variety of sculpture, and in one corner of the garden stands the majestic house of the Governor of New South Wales – "an outstanding example of Victorian architecture." Provided for tourists cafes and souvenir shops, paved rail road for a mini-tram which for a small fee a ride on the garden.