Alexandra Park & Zoo


This lovely sprawling park beside the Burnett River holds plenty of shady trees, flower beds, old cannon, a rotunda and swaths of green lawn for a waterside picnic. There’s also a small, free zoo, where you can see lace monitors, cotton-top tamarins, dingoes, emus and other fauna from 8.30am to 4.45pm


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3. Bundaberg Rum Distillery

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7. Childers Palace Memorial & Art Gallery

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8. Old Pharmacy Museum

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