Holland flowery, bucolic and cultural

Arrival at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport. Your private driver will welcome you and escort you to your hotel and assist you for the check in.

Enjoy a guided tour of the capital to start this day: the city is built on the banks of the Ij and the Amstel, on nearly a hundred islands of sand connected by a thousand bridges. 

Free time in the floating flower market installed since 1862 on one of the oldest canals in Amsterdam. There is an incredible choice: tulips and bulb plants of all kinds, dwarf cypresses, rare exotic plants from Easter Island for example. Lunch at leisure. 

We believe Amsterdam is meant to be viewed from the water and we’re constantly amazed at how good it looks. You join your passionate local  guide for a two hour cruise in a historical saloon boat and see Amsterdam from a unique vantage point. 

Your route carries you through the world-famous canal belt, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, giving the best possible view of 17th-century architecture and quaint bridges. The small size of your boat allows you to wind easily through Amsterdam’s network of waterways and avoid the traffic.

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This morning, we invite you to fill your taste buds with the flavors of the international cuisine. Amsterdam gastronomy has its specialties but it is also very important to learn about the identity of the city and its diversity through the melting pot of its food. You meet with your culinary expert for your unique food tour experience.

Hungry for a food adventure through the lovely little urban village of De Pijp? Originally a poor workers’ neighborhood, De Pijp has now become very popular and gentrified. Today it has inhabitants from all over the world and from all walks of life. The renowned Albert Cuyp Market and its surrounding ‘gezellige’ side streets can be considered the soul of this neighborhood.

During your experience through De Pijp you combine the traditional Dutch dishes (herring, stroopwafels, kroketen) as well as the melting pot of different ethnic flavors of Amsterdam. Whether it’s Dutch, Indonesian, Surinamese… Sometimes surprising – but never disappointing…

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Road to Appeltern. Meet your private guide over a welcome coffee and cake. Visit the park where 180 model gardens are spread over 13 hectares. Horticulturists, designers of furniture, fountains and garden accessories have developed each model on a different theme: a mine of ideas and creativity for the visitor!

Lunch in the flowery gardens. You may volunteer for a gardening and floral decoration course to perfect this  day dedicated to gardens. Lunch at leisure.

Free time in the afternoon to relax.

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After an early breakfast, your private driver will escort you to Aalsmeer.

Visit the Royal FloraHolland flower auction in Aalsmeer near Amsterdam to see the largest floral market in the world and a fine study in logistics. The Aalsmeer flower auction is by far the busiest floral market in the world. Daily, around 20 million flowers are traded here. Visitors are welcome but must arrive early and only observe the action from walkways several meters above the flowers and the busy warehouse floor where mini transportation trains crisscross the world’s largest covered market at astonishing speed.

After the guided visit, you will enjoy a traditional lunch in Amsterdam. 

Free time in the afternoon to unwind or do shopping.

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Departure to Lisse. Free visit of the Keukenhof floral park, the largest spring park in the world, to discover more than 7 million bulbs planted on 32 hectares: 600 kinds of tulips blaze and create, in the middle of hyacinths, narcissus and other wonders, a real enchantment of colors and shapes… 

Drive to Scheveningen, a very well-known seaside resort in the Netherlands.

Lunch. 

Road to Madurodam. Guided visit of the miniature park to discover Holland in miniature: canals, decorated gables, typical scenes of everyday life alongside windmills and historic buildings. 

Dinner.

Return to your hotel in the evening.

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After a hearty breakfast, departure for Zaanse Schans.

Naturally a route including old Dutch traditions must include the Zaanse Schans. If you wish to get an accurate impression of life in Holland in the 17th and 18th centuries, visit the Zaanse Schans. In this region, you will see authentic houses, original windmills, a tinware factory, a cheese and dairy factory and other crafts. There is no better way to end the day than visiting Volendam, a picturesque fishing village.

After a stroll through the labyrinth where you can see all of the green fishermen’s houses, canals and bridges, dinner will be served on the dyke. 

Your private driver will escort you to your accommodation.

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After your sumptuous breakfast and at your request, your chauffeur will escort you to Amsterdam Schiphol International Airport for your return flight.

BON VOYAGE !

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