Giethoorn – a fabulous village on the canals, an orchid paradise and a passage across the sea through the dam

This trip is for those who have already visited the Netherlands and want to add something special to their impressions of the country.

The road to Hiethoorn runs for more than an hour through the province of Flevoland, which is completely conquered from the water and is located on artificially created land. I will not only be your guide and driver, but also your captain. In Heathhorn, we will rent a boat with a silent electric motor and will like locals ride along picturesque canals and lakes, past fabulous houses with reed roofs located on islands and drowning in greenery and flowers. This idyll looks like we've hit a time machine 200 years ago. There's no cars, no noise, no fuss. Even garbage is taken out once a week by a garbage boat, firefighters and the postman also travel by boat. In general, such a wonderful original atmosphere is difficult not to appreciate.

In Heathhorn you can have a great time walking around the galleries, looking at shops with cheese and souvenirs, visiting museums and workshops. And then it is pleasant and delicious to have lunch in one of the authentic seafood restaurants. By the way, the peculiarity of this village with a population of 2700 people is confirmed by the fact that it has a restaurant with a chef with 2 Michelin stars!!

The coat of arms of Heathhorn depicts goat horns - this is how this phrase is translated - Kozerozhsk. Locals say that when settlers from the southern regions arrived in these swampy lands, they saw a lot of goat horns in the peatlands. Most likely, a herd of goats drowned during the last flood. Residents from time immemorial were engaged in peat mining in these swamps. Since wood was expensive to sink, peat briquettes were used in all the Dutch provinces. The miners dug around their sites a lot of trenches, and near the neighboring swamp was removed a whole meter of peat. Then another flood filled it with water and all the houses were at stops, which now connect about 180 bridges.

Not far from here is a large orchid greenhouse divided into several different tropical gardens. You can also see rare butterflies there. It is offered as an option on the way.

Back to Amsterdam, we can return by another road, driving a stretch of 32 km along a huge protective dam across the North Sea.

The program can be adjusted according to your interests.