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Eastern Australia Trip. Day 9 : Brisbane

The first day in Brisbane was rather packed. In the morning, we spent the drizzling day on the Mount Coot-tha 10 km to the west of CBD. The mount is part of the Taylor Mountain Range, west of Brisbane’s city center and is a listed Heritage Site. Coot-tha is also known as One Tree Hill and the lookout point was established as early as 1918.

Among the attraction we visited were the Botanic Gardens, Herbarium and Sir Thomas Planetarium and the Cosmic Skydome. More than 2 hours we took to explore, walk through the bamboo groove, the ornamental pond and even is has an outstanding Japanese garden.

I regret to say that even though I brought my camera everywhere, I didn't take as many pictures as I should have. I just relied on the pictures taken by my wife and my own mobile phones. (mine not as extravagant gadget that can took really high pixel photo shoot...)
Glass dome garden housed the tropic plants

Varieties of ferns on display, including ferns that live on rocks, trees and in the water 
Gaining knowledge on the tree ferns through read
The cactus garden was pretty huge
Best ni kalau bole buat meriam buluh...
We were into the Japanese Garden, you can expect a pond in there
Shot taken by Nu'man
First we thought it was just a replica...
The Cosmic Skydome located in the Planetarium

We drove back to the city center, as it was Saturday morning, the traffic was still bearable. We looked out for the nearest car park to the King George Square. Then, we walked to the ANZAC Square Memorial, opposite to the Central Station. Accessed to the Square through the Shrine of the Remembrance facade, and we saw statues and bronze plaque in memory of Australian and New Zealand Army Corps that fought in various wars.

Second Boer War Memorial Statue
Among those who killed during South African War

The 100++ years building is now the Grand Central Hotel
We walked around 500 meters towards the King George Square, to visit the Museum of Brisbane. It was the same building with the City Hall, situated on level 3. We didn't reserved for any tours conducted by the museum. We had to wait until noon for empty slots, so we decided to entourage by our own to the City Hall. However, the hand-operated lift for the Clock Tower still need to be accompany by the museum personnel.

Free admission though you need to reserve for the tours.

Best place to get to know Brisbane now and then
Nice architecture at the Grand Foyer
Wide staircase at the basement level
The main auditorium is a large circular hall covered by a large copper dome

The City Hall resemble the Pantheon in Rome
That is the Clock Tower!
Before we heading back for lunch, we meandered around the high street, Queen Street Mall, and grabbed some souvenirs to bring back home.


A mix of local, national and international labels and flagship stores.
She registered for the ICCAE event tomorrow
Add caption Rain or shine, tetap nak mandi swimming pool
After rested, we headed to the South Brisbane area, in motion to take selfie of the iconic BRISBANE's sign located in South Bank Parklands along the the Brisbane river. It was Saturday nights so the parking space was quite limited. Once we were there, it was like everywhere you turned, you've bound to see something interesting in the huge park. The man-made beach was large, unfortunately we didn't brought our swim gear, so Nu'man was little bit upset.

Basahkan kaki pun jadi laa...
We skipped the Wheel of Brisbane
See our selfie picture here.
Walked along the Arbour
From fine dining restaurant to the hipster cafe along the stretch
Let's go back to our apartment!

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