Enjoy a wickedly odd night in the gardens
If you've wondered what happens in Durban Botanic Gardens at night, enjoy a wickedly odd Christmas dining and entertainment experience.
THE second Wickedly Odd – The Night Garden, billed as being bigger and better than the inaugural event last year, is currently on at the Durban Botanic Gardens for six shows only until 10 December.
If you have ever wondered what happens after the gates at Durban’s iconic Botanic Gardens are locked, and whether the trees, birds and animals settle in silence, or if it’s then, when Durban sleeps, that these magnificent Gardens awake, then Wickedly Odd – The Night Garden is for you.
The Wickedly Odd team offers a sensational outdoor dining and entertainment experience in the heart of the city. The production team has created new ideas, different installations, a fabulous new menu and some glorious surprises.
On arrival, guests will be welcomed with a glass of champagne by a quirky botanical Maître D and taken on a whimsical amble (or golf cart drive for those who need it) up the garden path, past scintillating cycads, quirky garden characters, through the sunken summer garden, ending up beneath the gnarled branches of South Africa’s oldest Litchi tree for a 1930s “garden party” welcome drink and snack.
After a crisp litchi cocktail they will proceed to a glorious Bedouin tent for dinner, and elegantly and tastefully spread out under the bows of the garden’s most glorious Wild Fig. Here they will be treated to the finest plated menu Durban has to offer. Throughout dinner, the trees, birds and hidden creatures of the gardens will permeate proceedings, morphing the night into a whimsical, bewitching and fantastical blend of luscious food, crisp champagne, magical puppetry and curious delight.
After dinner guests amble (umbrellas and gumboots provided for heavy weather) out to a bar of their choice. A beer in a garden shed, a cocktail concocted by punk-beetled barmen, single malt whiskeys served by feathered barmaids at an exclusive whisky bar, or gin and tonic with your mates – there is a beverage and bar for any thirst.
Wickedly Odd – The Night Garden is not a show, a dinner, or a party, it’s an unusual Christmas dining and entertainment experience.Slip behind the moss curtain of fantasy and immerse yourself in our captivating world of botanical peculiarity, four metre flamingos, marvellous praying mantises, aerial acrobats, beetled barmen, feathered barmaids and cantankerous crows. This is an experience with a difference.
To book, contact 031 3133330, email: emma@experiencethis.co.za or visit Facebook: Wickedly Odd – The Night Garden.
