Jungle Gardens has a five-mile drive through live oak groves, along manmade lagoons teeming with plant and wild life, through an arch of old wisterias, inside an extraordinary row of hollies and a garden grove of camellias. There are other pleasures to be had when taking the short walks Jungle Gardens has to offer. There is the 800-year-old Buddha who sits on his lotus in a tiled pavilion, the ancient Cleveland Oak, the bird observatory platform and bamboos in Bird City to be discovered.