Kirstenbosch & the Cape Floral Kingdom — World's Most Biodiverse Garden
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Kirstenbosch & the Cape Floral Kingdom — World's Most Biodiverse Garden

Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden (on the eastern slopes of Table Mountain, 13 km from Cape Town — the finest botanical garden in Africa and one of the great botanical gardens of the world, established 1913 on land bequeathed to the nation by Cecil Rhodes (who died in 1902), covering 528 hectares (of which 7 hectares are cultivated gardens and the rest is natural fynbos): Kirstenbosch was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2004 (as part of the Cape Floristic Region), the only botanical garden in the world to be inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

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