Adelaide Zoo

Step away from the hustle and bustle of the city into Adelaide Zoo, just a short 15 minute walk from Rundle Mall.

Full of diversity, colour and unique things to see and do, Adelaide Zoo is the second oldest zoo in Australia and is home to more than 3,000 exotic and native animals over eight hectares of beautiful botanic surrounds.

Wang Wang and Funi are Adelaide Zoo's resident Giant Pandas, and the only Giant Pandas in the Southern Hemisphere. They're a major attraction of Adelaide Zoo, though not the only thing Adelaide Zoo can boast about — other major exhibits include the Immersion South East Asian Ranforest, Seal Bay, Australian Rainforest Wetlands walk-through aviary, Nocturnal House and the Reptile House.

Adelaide Zoo makes it easy to make a day of your visit, with playgrounds for kids of all ages, shady spots perfect for a packed picnic, a wide range of daily zoo keeper talks and animal feeds, a free walking tour, cafes, vending machines and more.

Rundle Mall is home to a bronze sculpture of a group of life-sized pigs, officially known as 'A Day Out' by Marguerite Derricourt.

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Thanks to a change in South Australia's liquor licensing laws several years ago, Peel Street has gone from an empty laneway serving as nothing more than a thoroughfare between busy Hindley and Currie Street, to a street that comes alive at night, packed with diners and drinkers.

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The first street statue erected in the city on North Terrace is actually a copy of a famous neoclassical work. Based on Italian sculptor Antonio Canova’s ‘Venus’, it was chiselled from Carrara marble by Fraser & Draysey, and presented by Mr W A Horn to Mayor F W Bullock on 3 September 1892.

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Building of the first section of Government House began in 1839. Prior to this, the Governor John Hindmarsh, and then his successor George Gawler, lived in a three-roomed wattle and daub cottage with calico ceiling.

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