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Durban Botanic Gardens
One of Africa's oldest botanic gardens, famed for its palms, orchids and ancient cycads.
- Editor's score
- 4.5
- Visit
- 1 h 30
- Price
- Free
About
Founded in 1849 on the slopes of the Berea, the garden grew from an experimental plot for tropical crops into a grand Victorian park. It holds a celebrated collection of cycads, including a specimen of Encephalartos woodii, extinct in the wild, as well as an orchid house, a sunken garden and a lake shaded by giant trees.
Best time to go: Visit in the morning, stop at the lakeside tea garden and look for the rare cycad collection.
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