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Bike/Barge Tour from Amsterdam (8 days)
Route: Amsterdam > Hoorn > Enkhuizen > Vollenhove > Harderwijk > Spakenburg > Amsterdam.
Price: On Standard Plus Barge is $1375/person high Season (double occupancy). No tours on low season dates.
Single supplement: $400/person (only one single per departure, rest of singles have to share).
Dates:
High season: May 24, 31, July 5, 12, 19, 26, August 2, 9, 16, 23, 30, September 6, 2008
The 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.
Dotted around the Zuiderzee are towns whose names were household words in both hemispheres: Monnickendam, Hoorn, Vollenhove, Harderwijk and of course Amsterdam at the centre of the web, all bearing witness to their rich pasts. On Monday you can visit the Zuiderzee museum in Enkhuizen. This open-air museum makes you feel you are at the end of the 18th century. Crafts typical of the time are practised, and costumes can be admired (entrance not included in the price).
In the space of a week you will pass through four different landscapes: the archetypical Dutch polder with its windmills and drainage ditches, in the province of Overijssel the marshy region 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..
Day-by-Day Itinerary:
Saturday:
Amsterdam, embarkation at 4 PM near Central Station, short round trip (20 km).
Sunday:
Amsterdam - Hoorn (50 km)
Monday
Hoorn - Enkhuizen (27 km), visit the Zuiderzee museum. Sail to Vollenhove
Tuesday
Vollenhove - round trip Giethoorn/Weerribben (45 km).
Wednesday
Vollenhove - Harderwijk (45 km)
Thursday
Harderwijk - Spakenburg (46 km).
Friday
Spakenburg - Amsterdam (49 km).
Saturday
Amsterdam, debarkation before 10 AM near Central Station.
1 km = 0,62 miles
Included in tour:
• 7 nights accommodations on board of barge in double cabin
• Breakfast and dinner, Lunch packages when on the road
• Coffee & tea on board
• Use of 24 speed Gazelle Medeo bicycles with panniers, lock, water bottle
• Credit card fee
• Route ferry fares
• Booking fee
• Route description
• Services of tour leader
Not included in tour:
• Airfare
• Entrance fees to museums, appox. 15 euro
• Drinks (other than coffee & tea)
• Bicycle damage insurance fee (13 euro/bicycle)
• Transfer between airport and barge in Amsterdam
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