Garden Travel and Visits

                    VISIT JAPAN WITH ME IN MAY 2010
Join me on a two-week trip, in May 2010, when I return to many of my favourite gardens in Japan: some of the loveliest in the world, and show-cased in my new book ‘Gardens of Eden; among the world’s most beautiful gardens.’ The tour – just a small group - starts with a week in the ancient capital of Kyoto, visiting some of the world’s most special gardens: the Moss Garden, Ninna-ji, the fabulous Gold Pavilion, and several of the extraordinary Imperial Gardens. Learn about the unique aesthetic of the Japanese garden, about its history, and how every aspect of Japanese culture is inter-twined: art, landscape and garden making, tea ceremony and cuisine. After Kyoto we visit Kanazawa and then the charming mountain village of Takaiyama, one of the few towns in Japan that, not damaged during World War II, remains extant. We then travel to Tokyo to visit some of the glorious wisteria gardens. 
I lived in Japan for more than a year, in the 1970’s,  when I studied language, tea ceremony, kai-seki ryori (traditional, formal cooking) and flower arranging. I returned most recently during Cherry Blossom Week in 2008 to photograph for ‘Gardens of Eden’. I will be accompanied on this tour by organiser, Ju Yang, of Imperial China Tours. Cost, including return airfares from Sydney, is approximately $8,800.00.

For a more detailed itinerary, please contact Imperial China Tours on From Sydney: (02) 9221 0266. From other cities: 1300 303 101. Email: tony@imperialchinatours.com

Or, for further information on the gardens call Holly Kerr Forsyth on 02 9314 6200

    

           

GARDENS AND ART OF FRANCE AND ITALY
Join Holly from 20 September 2010 for a two week tour of the great gardens of the south of France and northern Italy. The tour will start with several days based in Nice, from where we will visit several private gardens, along with several great sculpture gardens. Then, the glorious gardens of Lake Como and Lake Maggiore will enchant before we head for Vicenza to study the work of the great architect Andrea Palladio: his buildings and the gardens he influenced. We will finish the tour with several days in Venice, where we will visit some secret gardens, as well as discovering this enchanting city. There will be time to explore markets and small villages, several memorable meals as well as home cooking in family run restaurants.

For costs, and a more detailed itinerary, please contact Renaissance Tours on 02 9299 5801 www.renaissancetours.com.au/art-and-gardens-of-the-cote-dazur-and-northern-italy