Australian Pacific Touring Floriade & Tulips - 5days 
Enjoy Floriade and the Tulip Festival in spring while combining the beauty of the Southern Highlands with the national treasures of Canberra.
Day 1. Corbett Park, Kennerton Gardens. Depart Sydney from the Menzies Hotel at 9.30 a.m. Interstate visitors fly in by 9.30 a.m. and are met at Sydney Airport at approx. 10.00 a.m. Travel to Bowral in the picturesque Southern Highlands. Enjoy the colourful tulip display at Corbett Park. Our private garden visit today is Kennerton Gardens with its beautiful garden rooms and potager. Famous for its formal gardens and spectacular displays from spring through to autumn, Kennerton Green has century-old trees, and a series of renowned ‘garden rooms’. It features roses, spring bulbs, water features, woodland, formal hedges and pleached fruit trees, flowering shrubs and trees.
Two Night Stay: Bowral, Berida Manor Country Resort.
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Day 2. Private Gardens, Moidart, Red Cow Farm, Bradman Museum.
See Moidart with the sunken rose garden designed around a magnificent crabapple. An exquisite 2-hectare mature garden, Moidart features many exotic specimen trees – beech, oaks, sequoia, dogwoods and crabapples. See the silver garden, hellebore and bluebell walks, sweeping lawns, perennial borders, pond and stream. Continue to Red Cow Farm gardens. Visit the Bradman Museum, part of cricket history, and view some fascinating memorabilia. Visit the historic town of Berrima.
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Day 3. Embassies, Canberra.
Take an informative tour of our nation’s capital, Canberra, passing many embassies including National Capital Exhibitions as well as a guided tour of the new Parliament House.
Two Night Stay: Canberra, Novotel Hotel or similar.
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Day 4. Canberra Sights, Floriade.
This morning choose from the touring options of the Australian War Memorial or the National Gallery prior to visiting Floriade, Australia's celebration of spring, with its mass of colourful bulbs. Enjoy new types of blooms as Floriade showcases exciting new bulb varieties. See exotic tulip varieties such as Tulipa Black Diamond and Tulipa Top Parrot bloom together to create sweeping designs throughout the park.
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Day 5. Canberra, Sydney. Stroll around the Australian National Botanic Gardens.
View the Display Glasshouse, Rainforest Gully and Garden Nursery. Book lovers can browse the gardens’ Public Reference Herbarium. At Cockington Green marvel at the meticulously crafted miniature buildings and English gardens. Drive through beautiful Mt Annan Botanic Gardens, the largest in Australia, covering 400 hectares. Depart Sydney Airport at 5.00 p.m. or Menzies Hotel at 6.00 p.m.
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