At the top of the cable car, don’t walk straight past the gardens to get to the toboggan ride. See the gardens first or you will have to come back up again as opposed to going down from the base of the toboggan. The Monte Tropical Gardens are so extensive (70,000 sq meters) that you could spend a day there and walk back to the ship. They are tiered gardens on the mountainside. On the grounds is a three-story museum
The Monte Palace Tropical Garden has a huge exotic plant collection, coming from all over the world. There is a manor house and lake with water features, swans including Black swans from Australia, Tasmania, and New Zeeland, and ducks. Peacocks and chickens walk free on the grounds.
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The Monte Palace Museum is an ideal exhibition space nestled within the beautiful surroundings of a tropical garden. There are three floors, two of which are dedicated to sculptures, and the third houses a unique mineral collection gathered from the four corners of the world as seen in the film. ‘African Passion’ shows part of a collection of contemporary Zimbabwean sculptures from the period 1966 to 1969. ‘Mother Nature’s Secrets’, on the lower floor, proudly exhibits one of the finest private collections of minerals, predominately from Brazil, Portugal, South Africa, Zambia, Peru, Argentina, and North America.
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Around the garden is a large collection of tile panels placed along the walkways and amongst the vegetation. The collection is considered to be one of the most important in the country after that of the National Tile Museum, is made up of Hispano-Moorish tiles of the 15th and 16th centuries and panels produced in Portugal from the 19th to the 20th centuries.
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