Cape Town, Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens

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Five kilometres south of Rondebosh, the Kirstenbosch National Botanical Gardens are one of the planet's great natural treasure houses, a status acknowledged in 2004 when they became part of SouthAfrica's sixth UNESCO World Heritage Site, the first botanical garden in the world to achieve this.


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The listing recognizes the international significance of the fynbos plant kingdom that predominates here.

Kirstenbosh is the oldest and largest botanical garden in South Africa, created in 1895 by Cecil Rhodes, whose camphor and fig trees are still here.


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Today, over 22,000 indigenous plants, and a research unit and library, attract researchers and botanists from all over the world.

There's  nursery selling local plants, while characteristic Cape plants, found nowhere else in the world, are cultivated on the slopes.

The gardens are magnificent, glorying in lush shrubs and exuberant blooms.


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The gardens trails off from the lower gardens, which are formally organized, into wild vegetation, covering a huge expanse of the rugged eastern slopes and wooded ravines of Table Mountains.

The setting is quite breathtaking ..... this is a great place to have tea and stroll around gazing up at the mountain, or to wander along the paths, which meander steeply to the top with no fences cutting off the way.


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Two popular paths, starting from the Contour Path above Kirstenbosh, are Nursery Ravine and Skeleton Gorge; note that there have been muggings in the isolated reaches of Kirstenbosh and on Table Mountain, and hikers are advised to walk in groups and avoid carrying valuables.


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