Oxford is home to Oxford University – the oldest University in England.

Street entertainment in Oxford included a barefoot sitar player with his dancing hawk.

The Radcliffe Camera

Christ Church Cathedral

Magdalen Tower

University Church of the Virgin Mary.

Bodleian Library.

Bodleian Library hall was the location for hospital scene in Harry Potter.

Oxford Botanic Garden

Oxford Botanic Garden is a classic style European University garden with beds arranged by plant family.

There were a set of small conservatories

with interesting platnslike Bauhinia glauca

that is a tropical vine in the legume family that

produces wonderful flowers and tendrils.

Elephant’s foot Dioscorea elephantipes.

In the conservatory, it had a favorite plant –

Streptocarpus cooperiithat produces only a

single leaf for its entire life cycle.

The botanic garden is bordered by the Cherwell River with Punting.