The Domain, Art Gallery - Botanic Gardens

Pros: Indescribable. One of those places you have to see before you die.
Cons: For introduction to local Australian plants, look elsewhere.

Every night, for a few minutes at dusk, Sydney’s Royal Botanic Gardens appear to be on fire.

I first witnessed this on a lively evening on Oxford Street, Sydney’s nightlife strip. The wide sidewalks pulsated with beautiful people,...

Pros: Wonderful gardens, and great places to Picnic, Stroll and Jog.
Cons: None at all.

The Domain, Art Gallery - Botanic Gardens is wonderful place of the Sydney, located right in the heart of the City. It is strange, to be in an industrial busy city, with sky scraping buildings and Starbucks Coffee shops, and then to find yourself in...

Pros: Nice walk, pretty scenery, good museum
Cons: the gardens are maybe too extensive

The area around the Botanical Gardens makes for a lovely walk, or a half-day long hike, it's up to you. I took a bit of a hike, leaving the Opera House and walking across the landward side of concrete and up many flights of stairs into the Domain and...

Pros: Sydney is beautiful, relatively safe, wonderfully clean.
Cons: none that I can see

Sydney is a city of beauty and diversity. In the midst of steel, glass and stone are lovely areas of gardens and parks. The Royal Botanical Gardens are a unique and varied assembly of plant life.

I enjoyed many blissful hours walking...

Pros: Wonderful exhibits
Cons: Young kids would be bored silly

If you're heading along this way, don't miss the Barracks Museum, which is right at the corner of Hyde Park, to the left of the road you take to the Domain, next to the Land Titles Office. Entry fee is about $6, and they give YHA half-price tickets. This...