Feb 18, 2010

Incentive Travel in South Africa; the conscious way


The last few weeks Soekershof; Private Mazes & Botanical Gardens in South Africa has made long term agreements with the first upmarket tour operators regarding Incentive Tours.

The Incentive consists of visit plus a Soekershof Signature gift. Choice between a set of 10 plant hangers; laminated wooden seedbox (2 models) with embedded cotyledon; Earth Works Jewellery (earthy necklace and earthly earrings in earthy box) and a one wire lizard.

The Earth Works Jewellery is new and about to go into production. Only earth of Soekershof (different textures and earth colours) is used and the past year Soekershof and their local partners developed a process in sustainable binding the particles. It's weather and shock proof.

Soekershof (also known as The Green Cathedral of South Africa) is a 10 hectare large estate in Klaas Voogds West between Robertson and Ashton/Montagu along Route62. Locally Soekershof is known for its Klaas Voogds Maze with visualised local folklore as orientating beacons. Internationally Soekershof is highly acclaimed for its huge outdoor collection of succulent plants (>2500 different and registered species/subspecies/cultivars/etc.) and is recommended as one of the four 'must visit' gardens in South Africa. BBC's TV garden program presentor and known Irish landscaper Diarmuid Gavin reckons Soekershof as his favourite garden in South Africa (UK Sunday Times). His latest submission to the Chelsea Flower show was clearly inspired by Soekershof. Recently Soekershof was exposed in Garden & Home (Dutch edition), ZAM-Africa Magazine, Sculpture Net (USA), Reckless Gardener and Gardening on the Edge (UK), Saturday Star (SA) and INDWE (inflight magazine South African Airlines). In the near future publications will follow in amongst others GardenZine, Arise Magazine, Country Life Magazine and The Independent (UK).
These incentive packages are designated for the concious traveller who want to discover a different (more real) South Africa than as the known mainstream destinations.

If you want to find out more about this unusual property please contact the Dragonfly Team.

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