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Urban Parks 10: Stellenbosch Botanical Gardens Mystery Cache

This cache has been archived.

albert&anne: Due to personal circumstances we have, very regrettably, not been able to do much caching in 2018. We however enjoy it a lot and would like to do it again in the future when circumstances are better. We have already replaced MORE THAN 20 containers on this series (being in residentail areas with high muggle activity), but having now been "put on the clock" with this series with Needs maintenance logs (instead of being messaged), decided to Archive rather than being the cause of the DNFs.

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Hidden : 5/30/2016
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size:   regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

This cache is not at the stated coordinates. In order to find the cache you need to collect the 9 numbers at the top of the log of the other caches in the series. Then combine them as follows: Urban Parks 1-4 being the last four digits of the South coords and Urban Parks 5-9 being the last 5 digits of the East coordinates.


The park featured has special meaning for our family and was therefore chosen as the final park in the series.


Stellenbosch Botanical Gardens


The Stellenbosch Botanical Garden is the oldest university botanic garden in South Africa. The Garden is beautifully maintained and includes three glass houses (tropical-, succulent- and karoo houses), Lotus lily / Koi fish pond, Japanese Garden, Herb Garden and arboretum.

The garden is widely regarded as an open-air laboratory and serves as a centre for training, science, conservation and recreation. For this purpose rare plants have been imported from all over the world. This Botanical Garden, a mostly undiscovered gem in the historical centre of Stellenbosch, gives joy to all its visitors. The garden is small and compact, but time and again visitors are surprised by the atmosphere and the variety of plants and plant products found here.


No need to go anywhere that could be dangerous to retrieve this one, but please watch your step, especially if done at night. Please replace carefully as found. BYOP and tool to extract the log.

Congratulations to Anneay, Chrisden and Pipibibi on your joint FTF Other parks in the series:
Urban parks 1: Parc des Buttes-Chaumont
Urban Parks 2: Hyde Park
Urban Parks 3: Tiergarten
Urban Parks 4: Vondelpark
Urban parks 5: Villa Doria Pamphili
Urban Parks 6: Jardin du Luxembourg
Urban Parks 7: Stanley Park
Urban Parks 8: Central Park
Urban Parks 9: Kirstenbosch Gardens

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)