Friday 29th July 2011
Driving from Toowoomba to Injune over Chinchilla and Roma ...weiterlesen "Driving from Toowoomba to Injune over Chinchilla and Roma"
Kategorie: Toowoomba
Toowoomba – City – Botanical Garden – Queens Garden – East Creek
Thursday 28th of July 2011
Toowoomba City | Botanical Garden | Queens Garden | East Creek ...weiterlesen "Toowoomba – City – Botanical Garden – Queens Garden – East Creek"
Toowoomba -Crows Nest National Park – hiking
Wednesday 27th July 2011
Toowoomba | Crow's Nest National Park| hiking ...weiterlesen "Toowoomba -Crows Nest National Park – hiking"
Toowoomba – Table Top – Jubilee Park
Tuesday 26th of July
Toowoomba | Table Top |Jubilee Park ...weiterlesen "Toowoomba – Table Top – Jubilee Park"
Lismore – Toowoomba driving
Monday 25th of July 2011
Lismore | Toowoomba driving ...weiterlesen "Lismore – Toowoomba driving"
Category description
Toowoomba (nicknamed ‚The Garden City‘) is a city in Southern Queensland, Australia. It is located 127 km (79 mi) west of Queensland’s capital city, Brisbane. With an estimated district population of 128,600, Toowoomba is Australia’s second largest inland city and its largest non-capital inland city. The Toowoomba Region population in 2009 was 159,000.
A university and cathedral city, Toowoomba hosts the Australian Carnival of Flowers each September, and Easterfest is held annually over the Easter weekend. There are more than 150 public parks and gardens in Toowoomba. It has developed into a regional centre for business and government services.
Toowoomba’s colonial history traces back to 1816 when English botanist and explorer Allan Cunningham arrived in Australia from Brazil and in June 1827 discovered 4 million acres (16,000 km²) of rich farming and grazing land, which became known as the Darling Downs, bordered on the east by the Great Dividing Range and situated 100 miles (160 km)…