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The park is also the home of Regents College with many foreign students who have come here for further education. Inside Regents Park is the biggest Mosque in London and during Muslim holidays can become crowded and busy with traffic.
Close to Regents park there is a small park called Primrose Hill Park. During the summer months and whenever we have nice sunny day, many people go there to sunbathe or read the newspaper and gently doze off. It offers a nice view of central London if you can manage to climb to the top.
The park with an even better view of London is Alexandra
Park.
To reach it please take a train to Alexandra Palace station or tube to Wood Green
(situated approximately 20 minutes away from the park). The view is absolutely
stunning and you can even go inside the Alexandra Palace complex where ice-skating
during hot and humid days can cool you down.
Between Alexandra Park and Regents Park is Hampstead Heath. With a choice of going by tube to Hampstead or taking a train to Hampstead Heath you can have really enjoyable day walking and sightseeing. The park is fairly large and you can even swim in some of the ponds. The ponds inside the park are surrounded with bushes and trees and if you like fishing there is a chance to do so. People with younger children can pay a small amount to professional anglers who will take a charge of your young ones.
The last three London parks we are going to mention are slightly further away from central London but you will see why we are encouraging you to visit them.
The first one is Kew Gardens. It can be reached by train and District Line of the tube. Train stations are: Kew Gardens and Richmond. You can take local buses if you are based locally or minicab and black cab for journey from other parts of town. Kew Gardens is a legend amongst the parks. To see botanical wonders from around the globe you have to come here.
They store thousands of seeds in vaults to make sure that we do not lose another plant species. The glass houses full of palms, exotic flowers and shrubs will take your breath away. The Japanese Gateway, Temperate House, Bamboo garden, Temple of Bellona and Rose Garden, to name but a few, will astonish you. It is hard to describe the pleasure and delight you will experience. You really have to go there and see it with your own eyes. Open from: daily 9:30am-7:30pm or dusk. Tel: 0208 332 5655.
Not far away from Kew Gardens you can find Syon Park. There are fairs organised by local people few times a year. This park has a small Butterfly House. Inside the building you are welcomed by the scent and humidity of a tropical forest. The house was made for younger visitors but anyone can enjoy it.
Hundreds of butterflies fly all around you and you can sneak an look at a day in the life of an ant colony. You will see how well organised these little creatures are and how they rummage through the forest. You can buy a very cheap Stick-bug at the end of your tour.
The last park is our favourite Richmond Park.
It is HUGE. With a kind of wild exterior
this park has certain look that will calm you and maybe extinguish the way we
live urban life. Take our advice and go early in the morning with a picnic basket
in one hand and blanket in the other. It has a wild and natural feel that will soothe and calm you and help you forget the urban jungle.
You have a good chance of seeing deer grazing and walking around the park. They often roam around in the summer months. Relationship between locals and deer has been long time established and they are very tame. By the way, they are Royal property so if you are driving through the park be careful and look out for them crossing the road. A good relationship has been established over the years between local people and the deer, so they are very tame.
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