Kirstenbosch Gardens

Cape Town's Kirstenbosch National Botanical Gardens are the oldest and largest botanical gardens in South Africa. Left to the people of Cape Town by Cecil John Rhodes in 1902, the area comprises 528 hectares, of which 36 hectares consists of cultivated gardens.

Situated on the eastern slopes of Table Mountain, Kirstenbosch Gardens contain a wide array of indigenous flora, trees, birds and small animals. The gardens are simply beautiful, with lush rolling lawns, ambling cobbled paths and informative signposts that identify the plants and trees you're passing. Two popular routes up Table Mountain - Nursery Ravine and Skeleton Gorge - wind out of the top of Kirstenbosch, where the gardens become thick and wild with indigenous hedges.

Kirstenbosch offers a good restaurant and delightful curio shop, as well as guided theme tours twice a week and free walking tours every morning at 10. In summer there is a series of Sunday evening musical concerts, so bring a picnic and enjoy the sunset serenades on the lawns.

The gardens change with the seasons but you will always leave them with calmness in your heart and tranquility in your soul.

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