Every healthy lifestyle enthusiast can find the secrets of fitotherapy and learn to use the plants in many different ways – making sauna besoms, aromatic pillows, healthy teas, bath scrubs.

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Excursion to the herb garden. The Lādezers DĀRZS, herb garden grows more than 300 herb species. They are all used in medicine, health and beauty care, and in well-being treatments – the garden is known as ‘the green pharmacy’. Here healthy lifestyle enthusiasts can discover the secrets of phytotherapy and learn how to use plants in many different ways – making aromatic pillows, healthy teas, bath scrubs, etc. In the summertime, the colours and smells of the outdoor display of plants are beautiful. The host will take visitors through the garden to show and tell them about the plants and their uses. There is a possibility  quench your thirst with water from the nearby spring and enjoy tea made from garden herbs.

Depart Lādezers DĀRZS herb garden for travel to Igate Palace Dzirnavas  tavern. The tavern is located approx. 7 km from Lādezers and the journey takes approx. 10 min.

On the grounds of the old mill, the Dzirnavas tavern has been established in the territory of the Igate castle, where the mill wheel rotates from time to time, grinding grain, from which the cooks prepare delicious dishes. In the mill tavern, loose barley porridge with fried meat, buckwheat porridge with lingonberry sauce, fried barley pancakes, boletus soup, fried zander fillet, pork ribs are served to the guests, while thirsty travelers can quench their thirst with country drink - kvass.