Here’s What You’ll Find at Cordoba’s Botanical Garden

If you want to surround yourself with a variety of diverse plant life, then Cordoba's Botanical Garden (El Jardin Botanico de Cordoba) is the idyllic place. Essentially, it's a conservatory of some of the most beautiful scenery and vegetation.

Of course, I had no idea that this place even existed until a few months ago, but I kept putting it off in light of my trip to Buenos Aires,working on my novels, and a couple of other things life had thrown at me.

In March, Cordoba's Botanical Garden became the perfect venue to celebrate our six-year wedding anniversary. But first, we decided to make a little pit stop at American Chicken, which is a decent clone of KFC.

 

Afterwards, we took a bus to the botanical garden, which was a bit further than we usually traveled in our host city. But would you believe it? Here we were getting ready to have a nice afternoon, and the sky turned gray.

My pissed off face

His "I'm over it" face

Fortunately, it didn't rain!

Now, I've visited the botanical garden in Buenos Aires before, but I wasn't expecting this one to be an exact copy, and it wasn't. So here's what you'll find in Cordoba's Botanical Garden.

Don't get me wrong. The botanical garden in Cordoba was lovely. There were man-made streams full of water lilies and a modest amount of plants you won't see in someone's front yard.

There was also a mini-museum intended for kids, which contained topographical samples of different environments in Argentina, as well as a variety of different flowers, seeds, and of course, fishes!

But for the most part, there was just a bunch of trees. 

The man-made lakes and streams attracted a bunch of mosquitoes and wasps. But those weren't the most annoying things around.

The garden offers photo shoot sessions with professional photographers, and some of the sessions that we stumbled on included photo shoots of babies, as well as shoots of teenage girls for what I'm guessing was their quinceañera (Sweet sixteen, but for a 15-year-old). That was probably one of the most annoying thing about the garden. We were trying to walk through the path, but we didn't want to be rude and interrupt someone's photo shoot, so we ended up either waiting for them to move on or we had to ask permission and deal with the photographer and parents' moody face.

Toto, I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore!

So we didn't find the level of harmony that the botanical garden in B.A. had, but there were plenty of  picture-worthy spots, and a nice twisted path that took us all around the garden.

Money doesn't grow on trees, but apparently, wine bottles do!

Since we had stuffed our faces with fried chicken, we certainly needed to walk off a few calories. Alright, more than a few.

We loved the cacti area! My parents and I moved around a lot when I was a kid, but I remember that there was this huge cactus tree that grew in my backyard. Maybe that's why I find these plants so soothing.

You might spend an hour and a half at most at the garden before heading out like we did! If you have kids, you might stay a bit longer. Oh, and you might want to watch where you step. While we didn't see any stray dogs, we did notice plenty of poop while we walked around. So my advice would be to stay on the path, avoid the grass, and take some nice photos with a group of friends or family members. 

Afterwards, we headed to the nearest Walmart, which was only a couple of blocks away and enjoyed lunch no. 2 at McDonald's.

The Cordoba Botanical Garden is located in  Francisco Yunyent 5491. If you want more information, you can check out their Facebook page by clicking here.

Until next time...