Beds are voluptuous and the quiet rooms look onto the garden, an oasis of calm with an inviting timber-decked pool.

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The Saxon Hotel, Villas and Spa is a garden-like oasis shrouded in tall trees and flower blossoms set on 10 acres in the Sandhurst neighbourhood, 1km west of Sandton.

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Buiten Verwagten Guesthouse is a tranquil oasis set in a formal Victorian garden, with antique furniture and cool colour schemes in its rooms and garden suites.

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When he isn't picking flowers in Nimla garden, a green oasis in the dry hills of eastern Afghanistan, he works in a hot, dusty parking lot in the city of Jalalabad.

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Capture the spirit of kitschy Vegas at Caesars Palace as you sit by the Garden of the Gods pool oasis, surrounded by Greco-Roman statuary, while being offered frozen grapes by a goddess in a skimpy toga.

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Exit the common at Charles Street and cross to the Public Garden, which is Boston's beautiful Victorian-era botanical oasis.

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