The Eden Project
(1 hour from the Beachfield hotel)

The Eden Project is one of the UK's top Millennium projects created to tell the fascinating story of man's relationship with plants. It is a non-profit making charitable scientific organisation for the 21st century with a commitment to communicate with the public through entertainment, education and involvement.

The ‘home' of the Eden Project is a dramatic global garden, the size of 30 football pitches, based in the natural theatre of a china clay pit overlooking St Austell Bay in Cornwall.

The full opening will be in Spring 2001 but a limited number of visitors will be able to see how the project is developing from Spring 2000.

Eventually you will be able to visit a warm temperate biome, big enough to house the Tower of London and containing plants from Amazonia, West Africa, Malaysia and Oceania. From rubber to cocoa, and from vanilla orchids to bamboo. Where teak and mahogany will have enough room to reach their full potential and where you will experience some of the world's most dramatic tropical fauna without having to leave the UK.

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