The Botanica Story
To celebrate 15 years of creating exceptional travel
experiences and lasting memories for Botanica guests,
company founder and co-owner Judy Vanrenen has written
and produced a superb coffee-table book containing
hundreds of original and beautiful photographs of plants,
people and places from all over the world. Travellers on
Botanica's 2015 and 2016 cruises and tours will receive
a copy of this delightful memoir as part of their booking.
In Beyond the Garden Gate, Judy Vanrenen takes readers on a botanical
journey through the generations and describes the tourism and business
career that led her to start Botanica World Discoveries with her business
partner, Geoff McGeary, the owner of the APT Group.
She describes her early outback Australia tourism career, the people
who inspired her along the way, and the culture that has made Botanica
the leading botanically themed travel company in Australia.
Judy also describes her passion for caring for our landscapes, her ever-
evolving western Victoria country garden, Wiltshire, and the amazing
people who made Botanica the worldwide travel organisation it is today.
Her travels have led her to some wonderful gardens throughout the world
and naturally she has some favourites, which she shares with her readers.
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TRAVEL IN 2015 OR 2016
AND RECEIVE A
COMPLIMENTARY COPY
OF JUDY'S BOOK WITH
YOUR TRAVEL DOCUMENTS
*
*one per couple
Front cover image: Isola Bella on the Italian Lakes
