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The next stop was The Botanic Gardens.

Walked there, went in and was greeteed by lush green view. I just walked around and saw many couples dating(and doing some intimate stuffs) and even some drunk people around -.-”

I thought of exploring further but my instinct and common sense told me it’s not wise to do so since I was all alone. In fact, it was a drunkard that gave me a scare. I didn’t know there’s someone there at the hut drinking. I was busy trying to get an angle to camwhore!

I quickly walked back to the entrance. Didn’t dare to go too far away from the entrance.

Just simply took some shoots and got out of there.

The place is huge! There’s quite a number of places to explore but it’s best to go with a group of people or join the free tour offers at 10.30am in the morning(hopefully I got the time correct).

I went to South Australian Museum twice because I didn’t get to finish the whole visit on the 7th day.

So my first stop on the 8th day was here…

In fact I’m quite surprise that photography is allowed in the musuem. WOW! My first time see a “real” elephant. It’s huge! The lion almost gave me a heart attack because the tail actually moved hahaha… I surely wasn’t prepare for this.

Went upstair, more to see… Plants, animal, insects. Haven’t see the real one but get to the the dead ones ;p

Pretty fascinating seeing all these creatures that we usually only see in TV even though they’re all dead.

Even creatures in the river and the sea. The stingray is sure a big one.

This is huge too! Not sure what its called ;p

Of course, there’s also sections dedicated to the aborigines.

So many to see and it’s really educational. I didn’t expect to find museum to be so interesting. There’s also many interactive stations for the visitors to learn more about the exhibits.

Lastly, the pigeons outside the museum hahaha…

Next up will be the Botanic Gardens.

Nothing to update for the 6th day. I was too busy trying to figure out stuffs in the uni. Finally at least I got something out of it and I have a peace of mind now unlike the past few days, totally lost and clueless with the whole system.

On the 7th day, I could go out to explore again without worrying about the uni stuffs.

Along North Terrace…

National War Memorial, I didn’t know there’s an entrance, I went in to take a cover from the drizzles.

The State Library of South Australia.

Quite like the architecture but at the same time it’s emitting lots of heat from the glass.

SA Museum, will have a post on it. I missed out the Migration Museum, some other day when I’m in the mood to go out again.

The University of Adelaide.

Adelaide Law School which belongs to The University of Adelaide.

This is the City East Campus of UniSA. It’s totally different from campus in City West.

I wanted to go to the Adelaide Botanic Gardens but I kind of lost my way, again I didn’t even bother to look at any map or ask for directions ;p How silly… It was actually just next to the hospital but I didn’t want to walk further up because I’m tired and wanted to take the bus back. Only when I’m on the bus, I realized it’s only few steps away from the bus stop and also the bus stop name is known as Botanic Garden hahaha…

Anyway, that concludes my 7th day in Adelaide.

It’s Sunday morning. Experienced my very first false fire alarm and I was doing my big business in the toilet! I didn’t know it’s fire alarm ;p Happened that right after doing the business, I was set to go out. So I didn’t bother much and I even used the lift! ;p Came out, saw many firemen at the lobby and two fire trucks outside then it dawned on me that it’s fire alarm. I decided to continue with my journey but suddenly I thought that I forgot to flush the toilet!! I went back and waited with the rest before we were allowed to go back up. When I got back up… I did flush the toilet duh~ So blur…

Left: Adelaide Convention Centre.

Right: The street…

Left: One of the hotels in the city.

Right: The view of the buildings. Happened that the other student apartment was having false fire alarm too and there’s two fire trucks there. All those false fire alarms are really wasting the resources of the fire department. What’s wrong with those people that triggered it? It requires lots of smoke to trigger it and there’s a silence button for you to press too. Anyway, it’s very common to have false fire alarms in student apartments. Still I don’t understand how those people actually triggered it.

Left: Adelaide Railway Station.

Right: Planned to go to the casino to find free food and drinks because I just threw away 4 slices of beef as it went bad, I forgot that I must marinade it if I want to leave it in the fridge, gone were the dishes for my two meals -.-” but too bad… No such thing as free lunch in the casino hahaha…

Just behind the casino, the Festival Centre.

Left: The Solar Mallee trees outside the centre.

Right: View taken from the centre.

Left: Then, it led me to the Elder Park. I didn’t know this park exist ;p I didn’t even check my map or anything. I just walked where there’s road to walk. I was thrilled to find it, I think this will be the place where I’ll go often when I need some space for clear my mind. More photos on this place coming up in future post 😉

There’s series of events happening there.

Of course, food stalls set up too. I didn’t try any though. Instead I went back to Rundle Mall for Hungry Jack’s. Gonna post it after this.