Every season, you can look forward to a unique experience in nature, especially during our epic fantasy events and festivals!
SPRING
Green Monday Event
Cyherbia is open all day with a buffet of raw and cooked vegan delights! Go on a treasure hunt, play traditional games and have green fun in the maze, enjoy a walk around Cyprus in the Woodland and the herb gardens, have fun with activities for kids.
Easter Egg Hunt in the Maze
On Easter, hundreds of Easter eggs will have found themselves hidden in the Maze at Cyherbia. Can you help find them? Other games include Egg & Spoon Race, Sack Race and Tug of War, and many others around the park. The games are ongoing all day.
Fairy Festival
This is your opportunity to dress up as your favourite fairytale character and experience a unique day of adventure and enchantment in the natural surroundings of the botanical park. Games and activities in the Herb gardens, Maze and Enchanted Forest for all the family include:
- Adventure in the Maze
- Discover the Fairy Village
- Stilt walking, ring tilting
- Storytelling
- Maypole Dancing
- Treasure hunt
- Make a Magic Wand and Catch your Dreams
- Best costume competition for kids and adults
Every year we add more games and workshops around the park.
SUMMER
Make your own fairy house workshop
Make your own fairy house workshop is repeated many times throughout the year, as it is a very popular and loved workshop by kids and adults. All materials are provided, we show you how to start your fairy house you are free to use your best creative abilities and imagination to create your very own magical fairy house. Enjoy a cup of tea and desserts and when you’ve finished your fairy house; go for a walk around the gardens with fun activities!
Lavender Festival
Lavender Festival celebrates Lavandula Angustifolia, or English lavender, which only blooms once a year, in June and July. This species is widely used in essential oil production, in perfumery, in medicine, for culinary use and as tea. Cyherbia is the only place in Cyprus with specially landscaped lavender gardens, a lavender labyrinth for meditation walks, a distillation room where extraction of lavender essential oil will take place and many other unique features for all the family, such as the maze, the woodland walk around Cyprus and the fairy village. A celebration of the most aromatic of all herbs, the Lavender Festival is the absolute highlight of the herbal calendar.
During the lavender festival you can:
- Witness the extraction of Lavender essential oil
- Listen to informative talks on lavender’s many benefits, in English, Greek and Russian
- Take part in lavender craft workshops for all ages
- Join the fragrant processing of lavender
- Sign up for a cosmetics making workshop with lavender
- Join in a guided meditation walk in the lavender Labyrinth
- Taste free lavender cookie, sorbet and ice tea, and get recipes
Kids activities include a treasure hunt and lavender crafts. A unique experience for all the family to enjoy.
AUTUMN
Halloween at Cyherbia
Fantasy games in the woodland, maze and herb gardens for all the family! Dare to dress up and scare us before we scare you! Can you pass through the giant spider's web? Learn how to fly a broomstick in the Woodland! What's more? Surprise actors, quests and activities!
Pumpkin Carving
Pre-book your place and how many pumpkins you would like to carve, we provide all the materials and show you how to start carving your pumpkin. You can be as creative as you like, creating the scariest pumpkin for Halloween!
WINTER
CHRISTMAS CRAFTS WORKSHOP
Christmas Crafts at Cyherbia is a walk in workshop! Spend a fun time in our tea room making gorgeous winter and Christmas wreaths with fragrant herbs and natural decorations. Kids can make pine cone gnomes, Christmas tree pine cones and ornaments.
WILD GREENS PRACTICAL WORKSHOP
Receive information on their health benefits, learn how to identify, prepare and cook the various greens and taste some baked goodies made with wild herbs. Receive an e-book with all the information and Cyherbia’s own original recipes with wild greens to try at home