Of course I had to check out the Prague Botanic Garden too. But things always take longer than you expect, and in the end I didn’t reach the garden until after six. The greenhouses had already closed, but luckily the outside garden was still open, and entrance free of charge.
It was a lovely little green jewel, wedged in between concentrated city mess. (Later, I learned that this was the old Botanic Garden. In the north of the city, there’s a bigger one, and apparently more impressive. But I feel this downtown botanic garden was fine for me. My time in the city was limited, and rounding up the day in a garden like this was exactly what I needed. Some green balm for the soul after all that stressful sightseeing.)
They even had a geological garden! A big part of the garden dedicated to displaying boulders of rocks of different kinds, with information boards next to them of how they had been created and where in the Czech Republic you could find them. Wonderful!
Katja Malmborg 