South Bank Parklands, or How Brisbane is cooler than most European Cities :P

If some of you have made zoom in Brisbane in Google Earth, you will realize that the city is near the sea...but not in the seaside. The closest beach is around 12 km far from the center of the city. You are guessing how I go to the beach almost everyday. It's a strange, and I think, unique case in the world that a huge city is so close to the seaside but not in the seaside. How do Brisbanites solve that problem? As everything done by Queenslanders, in a practical way. If the city has no beach, let's build one!

South Bank Parklands has builded for the World Expo '88, that took place here in Brisbane. Before, it was only a part out of the city not so much developed and even forgiven by the Town Hall governments. After 1988 World Expo, some clever guys decided to make South Bank, the centre of culture and leisure of the city. After some changes, converting some of the Expo buildings in Museums and Theatres, and building also, the City Beach, the SunCorp Piazza (and open amphitheatre) and the Wheel, South Bank Parklands opened on 1992.

South Bank is so nice idea and so well maintained, that most of tourist or foreigners here think that you have to pay for it in a first moment. But no, it's complete free to use the most of facilities, and the ones that are not free, are slightly more expensive than in the centre, that is less than 10 minutes walking far from the parklands

Also there is a Rainforest Garden (that's why the photos are not wide, because there are always trees in the middle) where you can find ibis and the same lizards, that I took a photo of them last week. Yesterday I found two of them fighting :P

If you visit this place on weekend, you will find an open market. That's the place where I found the Kangaroo Scrotum :P

I think it's better you have to come here to see this kind of paradise in the middle of the city, cause I have no enough words