GOLDEN CIRCLE

Included
Hire of 24 speed hybrid cycles and equipment
Accommodation in two berth cabins with shower/wc
Packed lunches and tea/coffee on board
7 evening dinners
Tour information

Cycling tour guide

Ferry fares on the route

Emergency support

 

Excluded
Cycle Helmets
Drinks on board ship

Entrance fees to museums

 

Extras
Cycle insurance
Single cabin

 

Access (advice only not include)
By air to Amsterdam Airport: by ferry to Rotterdam/Hook of Holland: by car, parking available in city centre

 

Duration
7 Nights/8 Days

 

Start Saturdays only

24th April; 1st, 8th & 15th May; 19th & 26th June; 21st Aug 2010

Ship Category: Standard plus on all departures.

 

Level  1


Tour Code BAB

 

Price/Category:

£750 Standard Plus

per person in a 2 berth cabin see Tariff for full details

Cyclists and windmillThe Zuiderzee is irrevocably linked to the period in Dutch history called the Golden Age: the period in the 17th century when Holland was a powerful seafaring and trading nation. The Golden Circle will lead you along the shores of the Zuiderzee, through Holland’s rich history, and its beautiful countryside.
  Dotted around the Zuiderzee are towns whose names were household words in both hemispheres: Monnickendam, Hoorn, Enkhuizen, Vollenhove, Harderwijk and of course Amsterdam at the center of the web, all bearing witness to their rich pasts.
The Zuiderzee museum in Enkhuizen, which you can visit on Monday, will revive that past. Crafts typical of the time are practised in this open-air museum, and houses, boats and costumes can be admired.
In the space of a week you will also pass through four different landscapes: the archetypical Dutch polder with its windmills and drainage ditches, the marshy region in the province of Overijssel with the beautiful lakes of National Park ‘De Weerribben’, the heathed and wooded area of the Veluwe, and the unique lake and peat bog region around the rivers Vecht and Amstel.
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Itinerary
Saturday   Amsterdam, embarkation 4pm near central station, short round trip 20km
Sunday   Amsterdam - Hoorn 31ml(50km) or go ashore in Volendam 17ml(27km)
Monday   Hoorn - Enkhuizen 17ml(27km) visit to the Zuiderzee museum. sail to Vollenhove
Tuesday Vollenhove - round trip Giethoorn and the Weerriben 28/38ml(45/61km)
Wednesday  Vollenhove - sail to Roggebotsluis - Harderwijk 28ml(45km)
Thursday Harderwijk - Spakenburg 17/29/37ml(27/46/59km)
Friday  Spakenburg - Amsterdam 29/37ml(47/60km)
Saturday Disembark Amsterdam near central station, before 1000hrs

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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