{"id":515,"date":"2020-05-25T12:08:27","date_gmt":"2020-05-25T12:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site99.blogs.americavip.com\/?p=515"},"modified":"2020-05-25T12:08:27","modified_gmt":"2020-05-25T12:08:27","slug":"sir-seewoosagur-ramgoolam-botanical-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/contents2.mauritiusvip.com\/en\/2020\/05\/25\/sir-seewoosagur-ramgoolam-botanical-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam Botanical Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_516\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-516\" class=\"wp-image-516 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/site99.blogs.americavip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/100\/files\/sites\/100\/2020\/05\/Sir-Seewoosagur-Ramgoolam-Botanical-Garden--1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam Botanical Garden \" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/contents2.mauritiusvip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/100\/files\/sites\/100\/2020\/05\/Sir-Seewoosagur-Ramgoolam-Botanical-Garden--1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/contents2.mauritiusvip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/100\/files\/sites\/100\/2020\/05\/Sir-Seewoosagur-Ramgoolam-Botanical-Garden--300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/contents2.mauritiusvip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/100\/files\/sites\/100\/2020\/05\/Sir-Seewoosagur-Ramgoolam-Botanical-Garden--768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/contents2.mauritiusvip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/100\/files\/sites\/100\/2020\/05\/Sir-Seewoosagur-Ramgoolam-Botanical-Garden-.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-516\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam Botanical Garden<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam Botanical Garden (Pamplemousses) \u2013 a.k.a. \u201cPamplemousses Botanical Garden\u201d, this is the country\u2019s oldest such site, and is named after the country\u2019s first prime minister. This was originally a private garden by the French governor of Mauritius nearly 300 years ago. The botanical garden stretches over endless acres of land and it may take you more than a week to cover the whole garden. It is populated with more than 650 varieties of plants among which are the famous Baobabs, the Palmier Bouteille, the ineluctable Giant Water Lilies, dozens of medicinal plants, a large spice garden and many more. One of the main attractions of the botanical garden is the 85 different varieties of palm trees brought from different corners of the world. Other indigenous species of plants are also exhibited here.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Admission: 200 Rs. (tourists over the age of 5); free for tourists ages 5 and below; Rs. 25 (locals ages 5 \u2013 59); free for locals under 5 years, and for seniors and the disabled. Hours: 8:30 am \u2013 5:30 pm (daily).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam Botanical Garden (Pamplemousses) \u2013 a.k.a. \u201cPamplemousses Botanical Garden\u201d, this is the country\u2019s oldest such site, and is named after the country\u2019s first prime minister. This was originally a private garden by the French governor of Mauritius nearly 300 years ago. The botanical garden stretches over endless acres of land and it may [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recreation","category-things-to-see-and-do"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/contents2.mauritiusvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/contents2.mauritiusvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/contents2.mauritiusvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contents2.mauritiusvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contents2.mauritiusvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/contents2.mauritiusvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":518,"href":"https:\/\/contents2.mauritiusvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions\/518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/contents2.mauritiusvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contents2.mauritiusvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contents2.mauritiusvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}