We visited the Victoria Butterfly Gardens on a rainy day on our trip - and weren't disappointed! So many wonderful butterflies and birds in the tropical setting. Our 10-month old really enjoyed watching the butterflies fluttering around! Make sure to bring a camera - and wear light clothes!
Victoria Butterfly Gardens, Central Saanich
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Victoria Butterfly Gardens
1461 Benvenuto Ave., Central Saanich, British Columbia V8M 1T4, Canada
250-652-3822
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Ranked #2 of 7 attractions in Central Saanich
Type: Speciality Museums, Gardens
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Victoria Butterfly Gardens offers a rare opportunity to experience a true tropical jungle in the best part of Canada. Victoria Butterfly Gardens is...
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Victoria Butterfly Gardens offers a rare opportunity to experience a true tropical jungle in the best part of Canada. Victoria Butterfly Gardens is home to exotic butterflies, tropical ducks, stunning flamingos, rare tropical birds, Chameleons, Geckos, Poison dart Frogs, Tree Frogs, Sulcata and Red Footed Tortoises and giant Koi swimming in the stream and pond.Located just 5 minutes from the famed Butchart Gardens, Victoria Butterfly Gardens is warm and aromatic. The Gardens’ feature over 200 species of orchids, other stunning blooms and thousands of tropical plants, including foods of the world and carnivorous plant displays. This carefully planned combination of trees, bushes, vines and creepers is a balanced jungle-like eco-system that flourishes without the use of herbicides and pesticides. Guided tours are offered daily at no extra charge. These tours will optimize your jungle experiences as you discover the hidden gems within the Gardens.With a chance to shop our uniquely themed gift shop and winner of the 2010 Eco Star award, this is an environmentally friendly adventure that you will remember forever. Open daily except for December 25th, December 26th and January 1st.
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Fredericton, Canada
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Arizona
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My husband and I enjoyed this bonus before going to Butchart Gardens. Nice package! We wish our grandkids could have seen it firsthand. We took alot of photos and video to share, but we watched other children there and how much they were enjoying their visit. A good place for parents to take their children. We enjoyed it as adults....
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Calgary
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Not only butterflies but frogs and birds included. You walk in to have butterflies land on your head, where you obviously can't take a picture. so you end up chasing them all over the place and seeing all the delightful sights this butterfly garden has to offer
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Riyadh
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Though very small; your little ones will definitely love it and enjoy it. It's a great experience for them
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Granada Hills, Calif.
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Not as large or as good as the one in Niagara Falls, only about 20-30 minutes of time, definitely not worth the drive by itself but being on the road to Butchart many people stop in.
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Bedford, Texas
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There were beautiful butterflies here and some brilliantly colored parrots.....but not sure it was worth $15/person.
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Excellent butterfly experience due to sunny weather and recent hatchings, and the gardens had lots of birds in the trees as well. Koi pond and flamingos fun to see as well.
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This is a small attraction on the direct route to Butchart Gardens. There is a fee for entance but the fee is around the $10-15 range.
My friend and I loved this place. We were charmed. We so liked having butterflies accompany us and land on us! We so enjoyed seeing the birds, small and large, and we es
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VicBG, General Manager at Victoria Butterfly Gardens, responded to this review
13 May 2013
Hello Fltravelinggal
Thank you for you great review. It always make the staff feel a great sense of pride when we help someone enjoy the part of their vacation that includes us. We know that people have many choices of how to spend their money while on vacation and from your comments and rating it looks like we were a...
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Canada
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The butterflies flitting around, birds and vegatation was a wonderful escape. Very humid inside so dress lightly, if it is sunny outside where sunglasses inside, I was squinting a lot. Walk around the place a couple times as there are many things you may miss the first time around.
It is wheel chair friendly. No food is allowed inside. Nice...
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VicBG, General Manager at Victoria Butterfly Gardens, responded to this review
13 May 2013
Hello Bunchkin
Thank you for your kind words regarding our attraction. We are so glad that you enjoyed your visit enough to tell others. Your review was very thorough and covers most of the things that I tell people about the gardens. I hope that you will come back again the next time you are in the area.
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Amsterdam
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From the moment you get in it is a nice enviroment, it small but wonderful to see all the butterflies and little animals, birds. We really enjoy every second. Worth the visit. Bring your camera!
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VicBG, General Manager at Victoria Butterfly Gardens, responded to this review
2 May 2013
Hello appost,
Wow!! Love is a such a strong word and emotion. We are thrilled that our jungle environment was able to evoke such a strong positive response. Thank you for visiting and sharing your thoughts with the Tripadvisor world.
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