WOX Travel Contest | Week 3 : A Trip To Auburn Botanic Park, NSW, Sydney

Hello, my Steemian friends,

Are you ready to take a walk with me to the Auburn Botanic Gardens in Sydney? Yes, I am here to take part in this contest started by @o1eh

Did you say you are ready to go? So let's go to this park which is situated in NSW, Australia, located right in the middle of the city of Sydney. I have often been to Auburn Park which is not just an ordinary park, but it attracts tourists from all over the world for its Cherry Blossom show and Japanese Garden.

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By the way, if we go to the Auburn Botanic Gardens on weekdays, admission is free, and adults pay $4 on weekends. Yes, they give a discount for local Auburn residents, but I live in Penrith CBD, so I had to pay AU$4 per head. There is no ticket for children here, but we did not have children with us. I feel we can always remain kids, Haha, you save 4 dollars, and kids are always free to have as much fun as they want.

We didn't go by car, as public transport is almost free on weekends in Australian cities. Once $2.60 is deducted from your Opel card, you can travel as much as you want, no matter what vehicle you travel with, no other charge is applicable.

In our case, we used to enjoy traveling by ferry, train, light rail, and bus on most weekends and saved on parking and petrol. The parking lot at the Auburn Botanic Gardens was free, though, but parking in Australia is too costly, especially on weekends. But the interesting thing is that despite all this, the public transports are almost always empty.

We boarded a bus at the bus station near our house, reached there at 10 a.m., and got off at a bus stop at Auburn.

Yeah, so we changed two buses and got to Auburn, but we made a mistake as we got off at the wrong bus stop, and had to walk about 2 kilometers.

The closest train station is at the Auburn train station, but it's probably too far to walk, but I love walking and so does my wife, so we didn't mind that. From the Auburn bus station, where we got down by mistake, we could take another free shuttle bus service, but we preferred to walk.

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But sometimes, as they say, there is a benefit in your mistakes as well. We loved that we made that mistake because the route through which we walked was very lovely and enjoyable.

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Fauna Reserve and bird aviary.

And Snakes

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I suggest always checking if you are on the right route before planning your journey. Because, as the signboard says, this area is full of snakes. But we crossed safely and reached the park.

Auburn Botanic Gardens

I love that this park is all green, and although we visited the park in the month of April when the winter season was almost there, this park has so much shaded area that even when we visited during December or January during the peak summers and UV at its highest, we found enough shelter.

But the locals avoid visiting during the summer because skin cancer is a common and most feared disease in this part of the world.

As we all know, this area has higher temperatures than the rest of Sydney and can get blistering hot if it weren't for the breeze coming from the sea.

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They say Spring and fall are the best seasons to visit but I don't mind visiting this park in any weather. When we visited this park in the month of April the temperatures was mild, and the gardens were full of bright lovely colors.

But we wanted to enter the Japanese gardens as soon as we paid for the tickets and entered. I feel we can comfortably spend three to four hours here.

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So, first, of all, we went for a walk and discovered the beautiful, well-maintained Japanese Garden.

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The reflection Pool

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And lake with fish

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And ducks.

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And more walking trails

But that was not all. We have a number of attractions at Auburn Botanic Park.

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A scented garden and a sunken rose garden.

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We enjoyed the smell of the different flowers in the fragrant garden, such as frangible and lavender.

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And if one of them hid behind a flower tree, I took her photo and am showing it here.

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Inside the Botonic Park premises, there is an aviary and an arts center that showcases the works of local artists.

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The Botanic Garden has an arts center that displays works by artists from Australia.

And while you're at the garden, spot the local animals. You may not find these animals anywhere else.

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A native and rainforest garden.

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It's really a pity that there is nothing much available for eating, so we had to cut our stay short and cane out of the garden even though we didn't want to. I guess a couple of small eating points would make the Auburn Botanical Garden the perfect place to chill out and enjoy a beautiful morning.

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Time to move friends as we wanted to eat something and there was nothing much available here. So I suggest always double-check the details, especially if you're traveling in a park and if you not carrying food with you.

We were told at the gate that the free shuttle bus to the park gate does not operate on Mondays, but in our case, we didn't want to visit on working days, plus we use our car on weekdays.

I hope you enjoyed my humble effort!
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