There are many tourist places in San Antonio with free admission. One of those is The Japanese Tea Garden in Breckenridge park. This place is also known as Sunken garden / Chinese tea garden. It was opened in the early 20th century which was an abandoned limestone rock quarry as per the Wikipedia. It is listed in US National register for historic places. During the world war II, It was renamed to Chinese Tea gardens to avoid destruction.
We have decided to visit the place with kids after reading the reviews about the waterfall and a pond with fishes there. What's fun than going to a water body to cool off the scorching heat in summer? Monsoons started in India and we miss rains after coming here.
The garden is open between 9am to 5pm. But, the Sun won't set till 7 pm here. So, visiting a place before 5 pm is like walking in the afternoon heat. We applied enough sunscreen and insect repellent to start the walk.
The place has a nice garden, a cafe, a pond with many fishes, lot of trees and shade, a waterfall and a wooden bridge. The waterfall is not that great but kids enjoyed watching fish in the pond. The place is great to take photos and have a walk under trees. We expected it to be a big garden but it didn't take more than an hour to walk around.
It would have been great if they change closing time to 8pm in summer. This place is wonderful to sit and relax with cool breeze hitting on the face in the evenings. Since this place is near Brackenridge park and San Antonio zoo, we can cover those too. Don't miss the train ride in Brackenridge park if you have kids!
There are many fantastic places around which I will be visiting soon, so please stay tuned for more info in my blog ☺
Until next time,
We have decided to visit the place with kids after reading the reviews about the waterfall and a pond with fishes there. What's fun than going to a water body to cool off the scorching heat in summer? Monsoons started in India and we miss rains after coming here.
The garden is open between 9am to 5pm. But, the Sun won't set till 7 pm here. So, visiting a place before 5 pm is like walking in the afternoon heat. We applied enough sunscreen and insect repellent to start the walk.
The place has a nice garden, a cafe, a pond with many fishes, lot of trees and shade, a waterfall and a wooden bridge. The waterfall is not that great but kids enjoyed watching fish in the pond. The place is great to take photos and have a walk under trees. We expected it to be a big garden but it didn't take more than an hour to walk around.
It would have been great if they change closing time to 8pm in summer. This place is wonderful to sit and relax with cool breeze hitting on the face in the evenings. Since this place is near Brackenridge park and San Antonio zoo, we can cover those too. Don't miss the train ride in Brackenridge park if you have kids!
There are many fantastic places around which I will be visiting soon, so please stay tuned for more info in my blog ☺
Until next time,
