ANZAC Parade is a thoroughfare, lying on the axis of a straight line connecting the Capital hill and the War Memorial in the Shadows of Mount Ainslie. The Parade ground which stretches from the shores of Lake Griffin till the foot of Australian War memorial premises, is flanked on both sides by the lovely suburbs of Reid and Campbell. It will be a nice experience for you to take a stroll through these suburbs after you finish the parade walk to soak in the calm and peaceful and tree shaded atmosphere of the surrounding dwellings. The Parade ground road is flanked by beautiful parks and trees and amidst them you can find monuments commemorating the various wars participated by Australia and New Zealand defense units, starting from Boer War in 1899, the World wars, the Malayan emergency, the Vietnamese war, Korean war, Gulf and the Afghanistan war. These wars enabled Australia to establish itself as a federation of united nation having a say in critical global affairs and aligning itself strategically with the policies of Britain and US in all the global battles it had fought so far. Each of these war monuments, which are uniformly distributed on either side of the parade grounds, you see a plaque which inscribes the story behind the commemoration of these global conflicts. Of special mention is the commemoration stone of the Gallipoli battle fought during World War I, between the Turks and the Allied Powers, comprising France, Britain and the commonwealth states consisting of India, Australia and New Zealand. Even though the Allied powers won the World War eventually, they lost the battle of Gallipoli to the valiant Turks in which the ANZAC battalion suffered the most number of casualties on any battle in recorded history of Australia and New Zealand. Each of these monumental structures flanking the ANZAC ground is created with its own distinctive architectural aesthetics and worth a visit atleast once for a globe trekker. Offcourse the WAR Memorial to which the ANZAC parade ground leads to is a pivotal must visit monument that is another story to cover. On either side of the parade road, you find the Blue Gum Eucalyptus tree, which provides you with ample shade from the sun, even when the walk is carried out on a mid summer day. The walk is approximately 1.1 kilometer long end to end and extend up to the grounds of the War Memorial. Then you can cross the road and walk down the road again to view the monuments on the other side. The suburbs flanking the parade grounds can be accessed through winding roads, lined with shaded trees. As you walk the ANZAC parade ground towards the War Memorial, turn back and you are met with the striking uninterrupted visage of the Parliament house in the Capitol Hill. I visited the parade ground on a spring morning. The weather was beautiful and presented many photographic opportunities to frame. It will take at least an hour for you to cover the vistas of the parade ground. At the start of the ANZAC parade ground from the south lakeside as we walk towards the war memorial in the North, stray a bit away to the left side of the road, we find a graveyard on a parallel road, inside the premises of a lovely church by the name St. Johns, hosting the memorial grounds of many of Canberra’s pioneers. We can choose to visit this site after covering the ANZAC Parade grounds and as we go out, we may sit on the wooden benches flanking the inside of the gateway and soak in the wonderful atmosphere of the surroundings filled with the chirping of birds and the delightful aroma of the woods.