Popular with tourists are the South Bank Parklands, which are located on the site of World Expo '88. The South Bank Parklands is famous for firework displays that attract thousands of spectators. Tourists and locals alike frequent the beautiful bougainvillea lined Riverside Walkway at all times of the year and flock to the area during music and arts festivals.
Other popular areas for tourism and recreation include the Roma Street Parkland, the Brisbane City Botanic Gardens (a colonial era botanic gardens founded in 1855 in the Brisbane CBD), and the Mount Coot-tha state forest, which includes a lookout over the city, as well as Brisbane Botanic Gardens (contemporary botanical gardens), the Sir Thomas Brisbane Planetarium in Toowong, and the rockclimbing cliffs at Kangaroo Point, at the southern approach to the Story Bridge.
More than 27km of award winning bicycle pathways line both sides of the river east and west of the city centre.
Other popular Brisbane tourist destinations include Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary at Fig Tree Pocket (which was founded in 1927 and is the oldest and largest Koala sanctuary in the world), and Brisbane Forest Park at The Gap. |
