Jungle Gardens, Botanical garden and park in Iberia Parish, United States

Jungle Gardens is a 170-acre botanical garden and bird sanctuary on Avery Island, near New Iberia, Louisiana. Four miles of gravel roads lined with live oaks and Spanish moss run through plantings of azaleas, Japanese camellias, hydrangeas, Louisiana irises, palms, papyrus sedges, bamboo and wisteria, with walking paths between them. On one of the seven "Hills of Knowledge" stands a glass-enclosed shrine with a curved tiled roof, yellow upper band and white columns, set above a pond and arched bridge in a Chinese garden.

Edward Avery McIlhenny, second son of Tabasco sauce inventor Edmund McIlhenny, created the gardens on Avery Island. In 1895 he raised eight egrets in captivity and released them that autumn; they returned the next spring with other egrets, and the colony has returned each year since. The gardens were later opened to the public and remain family-owned.

The glass shrine in the Chinese garden holds a Buddha dated to about 1100 AD, given to Edward Avery McIlhenny in 1936 by two friends. A story holds that a Chinese warlord sent it to New York City in the 1920s, where it stayed in warehouse storage before coming to Louisiana. Owen J. T. Southwell designed the shrine, set on one of the seven "Hills of Knowledge" with a pond and arched bridge.

Four miles of gravel roads lined with live oaks and Spanish moss carry visitors through the gardens, and walking paths branch off them. The Buddha shrine stands in a Chinese garden on one of the seven "Hills of Knowledge", reached over an arched bridge beside a pond. The gardens are open every day of the year except major holidays.

The grounds feature Bird City, a designated area serving as protected habitat for snowy egrets. Visitors can watch these white birds in their natural environment without disruption.