Tour Options for People with Special Needs

Tour for the Blind and Visually Challenged
A Ramat Hanadiv guide will welcome the group and join it for the film, ‘Beyond the Gardens’. After the screening, the group will tour the Memorial Gardens, which were established to commemorate Baron Edmond de Rothschild and his wife Adelaide.
The tour will proceed along the rustic lanes of the gardens featuring fountains, medicinal plants, intoxicating scents and fresh sea breezes, all of which will help us tell the story of the Rothschild family and its many contributions to the building of Israel.
To complete the Ramat Hanadiv experience and the sensory empowerment it offers, we will enter the Fragrance Garden, created especially for the visually impaired. This garden is meant to be enjoyed via other senses than sight.
At its entrance stands a relief map of the garden, next to it is a pool with streams of water that act as an ‘audio compass’. Around the perimeter of the garden are beds of herbs used for seasoning and healing, with Braille signs identifying the plants.

The tour lasts about 1 1/2 hours.
Cost: NIS 650. Suitable for groups of 25 or less.

Workshop: Healing Herbs

Healing herbs have accompanied human beings since the dawn of history. These plants helped heal illnesses, bodily pains, and emotional distress, and they were always there for the benefit of humankind.
This tour will illuminate the enormous contributions that plants have made to our emotional and physical health. Guided gathering of herbs in the immediate surroundings gives the group experience in identifying useful plants and their benefits.
At the end of the ‘harvesting’ experience, the group gathers in a classroom to experiment with the plants: extracting oils, juicing, and brewing. When the workshop concludes, all participants go home with ointments they’ve created themselves to heal cuts and injuries, and with prescriptions for continuing a healthy life.
The tour and workshop last about 1 1/2 to 2 hours.
Cost: NIS 1600 per group. Suitable for groups of 30 or less.

From the Garden with Love

In our magical garden, tranquility fosters creativity, and extensive activities encourage personal expression: using plants, recycled items, and materials from nature that are no longer useful, participants can make a variety of creative objects.

A wide range of activities offered includes a wind-chime workshop; making one’s own flower bed; decorating flower pots with natural materials, and more.

The activities last about one hour.

Cost: NIS 650 per group. Suitable for up to 20 participants.

These workshops are customized according to the needs and capabilities of the group. The Therapeutic Garden at Ramat Hanadiv is equipped with tables that accommodate wheelchairs.