Day 12: Botanical Garden!

June 12th, 2012

 

I wanted to see more of Caracas’ beautiful scenery so we decided to head to the Jardín Botánico, which means “Botanical garden”! This garden was founded in 1944 by Dr Tobias Lasser and was later opened to the public in 1958. It located at one of Caracas’s colleges, UCV (Universidad Central de venezuela). It covers a total of 70 hectares (172,970 acres), 10 of them are flat lands and the other 60 are covered in hills. It contains more than 2,000 native and non-indigenous species as well as more than 100 types of palms and four greenhouses for bromeliads, ferns, orchids and shade plants. Also, 100,000 trees belonging to 80 species grow in the Arboretum and more than 100,000 types of plants are found in the herbarium.

It’s absolutely gorgeous. This garden has such a wide selection of plants and trees,and all of the different colors of the flowers make this place fantastic. I really wanted to puck some of the beautiful flowers and make a bouquet with them, but I didn’t want to get in trouble with any one! So I just took a ton of pictures to capture the essence of the garden. 🙂

 

 

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