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The Bicentennial Conservatory, located inside the Adelaide Botanical Garden, is one of the most regularly visited and popular tourist attractions of the city. It is the largest conservatory found in the whole of southern hemisphere, which was designed by a gentleman named Guy Maron. The Bicentennial Conservatory, Adelaide was built in order to celebrate the 200th birth anniversary of Australia. This huge conservatory is a curvilinear shaped building. It is 100 meters long, 47 meters wide with a height of around 27 meters. The roofs, walls and the doors of the buildings are made of glass, which are in turn supported by huge and elegant looking steel structures. Thus huge glasshouse is indeed one the most attractive of all tourist attractions of the city and hence worth paying a visit. The Bicentennial Conservatory houses a wide collection of rare and exotic plants, trees and shrubs. You can get to see different varieties of trees that are found in the tropical rainforests. Tourists can check out the huge collection of trees and plants, like the Fishtail Palma d the Torch Ginger, got from Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, Northern Australia as well as from the Pacific Islands. The environment inside this huge crescent shaped observatory is warm and humid, typical of a rainforest. The building ahs twelve sensors and a weather station located on its roof. They continuously collect relevant data that enables the computer to control the temperature inside the Bicentennial Conservatory. You can find a large number of insects and birds inside the conservatory. You can take a look at the Noisy Pitta Pitta's, the White-Browed-Wood Swallows, the beetles, mites and other creatures. The temperature inside the conservatory is maintained at 23ºC to15ºC. The Bicentennial Conservatory, Adelaide is a major educational site of the city. It is open from on all days of the week from 10 a.m. in the morning till 4 p.m. in the evening. Entry is not free. Thus, if you have a fascination for nature and want to get the feel of a tropical rainforest right in the middle of a modern city, then you should certainly pay a visit to the Bicentennial Conservatory, Adelaide.
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