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Welcome to our unique sustainable design tours of Germany,
the country has undertaken a leadership role
in all facets of sustainable and ecological living that is admired worldwide.
Our next ecotour will start on August 17th 2009 and will continue for 9 days.
any green and sustainable places in northeastern Germany. Here is a brief itinerary of our tour.
Day1, arrive at Frankfurt, on their own travelers will catch the train
to the beautiful Baltic Sea city of Schwerin to meet up with your Tour guide and
begin your trip with a two night stay in Schwerin.
Enjoy a casual walk in the beautiful old town that afternoon.
Later that evening, enjoy a welcome reception from your tour director and team.
Day 2, today we will visit the magnificent biennial 2009 Federal Horticultural Exposition held in Schwerin.
This amazing show will dazzle you with many gardens and sustainable concepts.
Day 3, in the morning, we’ll visit the German Garden Show again.
After lunch, we will take the fast train to Germany’s capital city Berlin
where we will stay for the next three nights.
We will do a walking tour or optional bicycling tour around this bustling metropolis that afternoon.
Day 4, This morning we visit the new rebuilt Reichstag’s dome,
designed by British architect Norman Foster, which offers a fantastic view of Berlin.
Afterwards, we will walk around Berlin’s rebuilt center with its Potsdamer Platz and famed boulevard, Unter den Linden.
In the afternoon we visit the Hanfhaus (Hemp Store)
to see the latest in fashionable hemp clothes, bags, and foods.
The rest of the afternoon you will be given time to explore the city on your own.
Day 5, today after breakfast, we visit the city Potsdam,
which is slightly to the southwest of Berlin.
Here we visit the historic Karl Foerster garden and nursery.
Mr. Foerster was the impetus for the widespread use of perennials, grasses, and ferns in German gardens.
He was a personal inspiration for my father, Wolfgang Oehme,
rousing in him of the merits of herbaceous plants that would later be the foundation for his award winning landscape design work.
This afternoon we visit Berlin’s acclaimed botanic garden,
also an inspiration for Wolfgang Oehme during his studies there.
rousing in him of the merits of herbaceous plants that would later be the foundation for his award winning landscape design work.
Day 6, in the morning we board the fast ICE train to Magdeburg
where we will tour the highly innovative mixed use building by Hundertwasser
that features roof gardens and a courtyard.
This is the last building to be built that was designed by the Viennese fairy tale artist and architect.
That afternoon we will take the train to Bitterfeld where we will spend the next four nights.
Later that afternoon, we will visit renowned landscape architect Wolfgang Oehme’s perennial and grass garden at Amber Lake.
Day 7, first thing in the morning we will drive north to visit the “one-of-a-kind” Ferropolis,
where derelict coal mining excavators loom like giant Brachiosaurus dinosaurs.
Here we learn about the areas history of coal mining.
Then we will head further north to visit the revitalized Bauhaus architecture school,
a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
In the afternoon we visit another World Heritage Site, the English style Wörlitz Park,
a garden for Prince Leopold III on the outskirts of Dessau.
Day 8, first, we will head south to Chemnitz
to visit some gardens with swimming ponds by landscape architect, Rainer Ihle.
The afternoon will be coming back to Bitterfild
to spent bicycling on the loop trail through the ecopark and its lakes and forests.
Along the way, we will climb the new observation tower
for a bird’s eye view of the revitalized former coal mined landscape that is now an innovative ecopark.
Day 9, After breakfast we say goodbye as our tour ends.