Kings Park and Botanic Garden

On the high ground of Mount Eliza above the Swan River, Kings Park is one of the largest inner-city parks in the world - four hundred hectares, two-thirds of it protected bushland. The Western Australian Botanic Garden gathers more than three thousand of the state's plant species, spectacular in spring when kangaroo paw and everlastings colour the beds. The Lotterywest Federation Walkway lifts a glass-and-steel bridge into the canopy of towering eucalypts, and the lookouts frame the river, the city skyline and the distant Darling Range. Free and open daily, it is Perth's front garden and its finest vantage.