Sungai swanOn May 2, 178 years ago, HMS Challenger under the Captain Charles Fremantle landed in a creek on the west coast of Australia. So see black swan ago thatch, river directly give him the name Swan.  Captain Charles Fremantle place it landed now grown into a port city. As a tribute to inventor, finally given the name of Fremantle. Three and a half months after the Challenger crash, Captain James Stirling was the Swan River to find the location that can be used as residential. After sailing as far as 20 km, found the river valley is very beautiful, sloping, hilly titivate to horizon.
Date of landing Stirling, 12 August 1829, later set as the birthday of Perth, the capital of Western Australia. Perth new beauty secret uncovered in 1962 and immediately became the focus around the world. This is all because of astronauts John Glenn’s flight in the United States using historical satellite, see the light colors beautiful night in the midst of darkness.
In the west, there are Indian Ocean to the east coast of Africa. In the east, and deserts them shrub with the east coast of Australia. Therefore, the location of Perth on the far closer to Jakarta or Singapore, Sidney, compared to the state or federal capital of Australia, Canberra. In all kinds of isolation, the Perth metropolitan grown into a modern and Western Australia can maintain itself as the museum as a natural species of plants and animals unique to the period remaining from the ancient, since koalas to kangaroos to the freshwater crocodile. Be, especially Perth and Western Australia in general, the compound containing the collection, from a thick forest in the south to tropical jungle in the north.
However, between the months of November to April, the coming-ship cruises, volunteer organization that also served in the port of Fremantle. In all these locations volunteers WOW (West Oz Welcomers) ready to assist all guests to have the hotel, shows the tourist attraction, and all the tourists.
Area of 17 hectares of the area as King’s Park Botanical Gardens, where 450 species of plants and flowers the following 17 rare bird species were conserve. Walking in the botanical garden is like a picnic to the virgin forests that have not been touched by greedy lust of men. Meanwhile, for those who love history, are the ferry ride the Swan River, from Perth to Fremantle. If Perth is a modern metropolis full of color, Fremantle is a kola ancient become a successful living museum with a store full of charm and eternal memories.

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