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They are all perfectly good reasons to head southwest from Sydney and discover all that Canberra has to offer. The national capital is your ultimate destination on this drive, but it detours to one of the country's great repositories of native plant species, into the lush and lovely Southern Highlands, and stops in a historical haven in the Yass Valley.

Sydney to Canberra

Riverbank of Queanbeyan Cafe

The Australian Botanic Garden, Mount Annan is the Australian native plant garden of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney and covers 416 hectares.

The plantings are designed to take visitors on an exploration of Australia's unique plant life with the Connections Garden being the premier Garden within the site. The four and a half hectare Connection Garden is a roofless museum demonstrating the way people and the natural world interconnect.

The Garden is also one of the premier outdoor events venues in South West Sydney and hosts AnnanROMA Food and Wine Festival and the largest Carols event in the region in December.

Paid tours can be booked for groups and are guided by qualified staff or free tours can be taken with their volunteers. Both can be booked through the visitor centre.

The Australian Botanic Garden Mount Annan

Fitzroy Falls

Bradman Museum and International Cricket Hall of Fame

Queen Elizabeth II Park Queanbeyan

Googong Foreshores

Grazing

Bundanoon

Queanbeyan

Gundaroo

Dirty Janes Bowral

Bowral

Melaluca Cafe- Mt Annan Botanical Gardens

Mt Annan

Sydney

Joshua's Fault Wine

Corbett Gardens

Fairy Bower Falls

Bundanoon Hotel

Day 1

NRMA