Experience Norfolk’s Nature, Art and Gardens on Adkins Arboretum Bus Trip

VLM-BayAquarium-OliviaTriska-2010Experience Norfolk’s Nature, Art and Gardens on Adkins Arboretum Bus Trip

Rich in culture, history and natural beauty, Norfolk, Va., is just begging to be explored. Join a wonderful whirlwind trip to enjoy the city’s gardens, art museums and nature areas when Adkins Arboretum offers a bus trip Oct. 22 and 23.

At the Virginia Living Museum, where living exhibits depict Virginia’s natural heritage from the mountains to the sea, learn about loggerhead turtles, moon jellies, color-changing frogs and more than 200 other species native to Virginia through interactive hands-on exhibits.

Experience internationally acclaimed British artist Bruce Munro’s large-scale light-based exhibit at the Hermitage Museum & Gardens, an early twentieth century Arts-and-Crafts estate located on the Lafayette River. Explore the Chrysler Museum of Art, one of America’s great fine art museums and two significant historic houses, and attend a glassmaking demonstration in the new Chrysler Museum Glass Studio.

At the 155-acre Norfolk Botanical Garden, explore your choice of more than 40 gardens by tram or foot. Theme gardens include the Bristow Butterfly Garden, the Sarah Lee Baker Perennial Garden, the Virginia Native Plant Garden and the Bicentennial Rose Garden.

This jam-packed overnight trip includes coach bus transportation, all admission fees, hotel with Internet and continental breakfast, and driver gratuity. Lodging is at the Residence Inn Norfolk Downtown.

The bus departs from 315 Aurora Park Drive in Easton at 8 a.m. on Wed., Oct. 22 and will return to Easton on Thurs., Oct 23 at approximately 9 p.m. Advance registration is required at adkinsarboretum.org or by calling 410-634-2847, ext. 0.

Photo credit: Virginia Living Museum photo by Olivia Triska, courtesy of Virginia Living Museum.