Brisbane has many popular recreational areas, which include, the South Bank Parklands, the Roma Street Parkland (which has an outdoor amphitheatre), the Brisbane City Botanic Gardens (a colonial era botanic gardens founded in 1855 in the Brisbane central business district), and the Mount Coot-tha state forest (which includes a lookout over the city), the Brisbane Botanic Gardens (contemporary botanical gardens) which includes the Sir Thomas Brisbane Planetarium and the "Tsuki-yama-chisen" Japanese Garden, as well as Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary and Brisbane Forest Park, the rock-climbing cliffs which are located at the southern approach to the Story Bridge at Kangaroo Point, and the more than 27 km of bicycle pathways which line both sides of the river east and west of the city centre. Another new Brisbane attraction is the Story Bridge Adventure Climb. The Story Bridge is one of only three legally climbable bridges in the world.

Mo's Must see’s:

• Take a city tour
• Take a river cruise
• Visit Steve Irwin’s Australian Zoo
• Visit Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary
• Hand feed dolphins at Tangalooma Wild Dolphin Resort.
• See a rainforest in the hinterlands.
• Visit theme park Dreamworld, and see Tiger Island