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Bike/Barge Tour from Stavoren (8 days)
Route: Stavoren > Makkum > Franeker > Leeuwarden > Dokkum > Leeuwarden > Sneek > Sloten > Stavoren
Price: tandard Plus Barge, the price is $1375 for the High Season /person (double occupancy). This tour does not occur during the low season.
Dates:
High season: July 12, 26, July 9, 2008
The peace, the nature and the Race of Races (the Eleven Cities Tour) have made Friesland extremely popular with skaters but certainly also with cyclists. The Eleven Cities Tour owes its name to two men who decided in the winter of 1808 to skate past eleven towns in one day, a total of 230 kilometers. To prove they had done it, they obtained the signatures of the owners of cafés or hotels in every town. The first official Eleven Cities Tour was held in 1909.
The Frisian towns owe their rise to shipping and trade. Friesland enjoyed its hey-day between 1000 and 1500, when the settlements in southwest Friesland in particular profited. The route leads you through these towns with the green watery countryside in between, where farming usually determines the horizon.
Other important parts of the scenery consist of the numerous little bridges, that 'leap' the ditches and the sailing boats that cross the vast lakes like white swans.
Besides, attention is also paid to culture. The pictoresque villages, historic towns and the original Frisian traditional costumes complete the image of the greenest province of the Netherlands.
Day-by-Day Itinerary:
Saturday
Stavoren, embarkation at 4 PM near railway station - biking to Makkum (30 km)
Sunday:
Makkum - Franeker (45 km)
Monday
Franeker - Leeuwarden (50 km)
Tuesday
Leeuwarden -
Leeuwarden - Dokkum - Leeuwarden (50 km)
Wednesday
Leeuwarden - Sneek (42 km)
Thursday
Sneek - Sloten (26 km)
Friday
Sloten - Stavoren (35 km)
Saturday
Stavoren, debarkation before 10 AM
Due to weather conditions the route may be altered.
Included in tour:
• 7 nights accommodations aboard barge
• Full board (breakfast + packed lunch + 3-courses dinner)
• Coffee and Tea on board
• Services of tour leader
• Route description with map.
• Use of 24 speed Gazelle Medeo bicycle with panniers
• Credit card fee
• Booking fee
Not included in tour:
• Airfare
• Bicycle damage protection insurance
• Excursions not in program
• Drinks (other than coffee & tea)
• Transfer between airport and barge in Amsterdam
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