Super Tulip Tour | Keukenhof | Tulips

8 days | from: € 895,-  |  Group | Barge | Guided | Level 1

Between April and mid-May we offer special tulip tours. The program of this Super Tulip Tour is totally dedicated to this beautiful flower. You will cycle through hectares of spring flowers and tulips, learn all about growing tulips in a tulip park and of course you visit the “Keukenhof”.

Highlights include:
Cycling through the tulip fields
Tulip garden & Keukenhof
Flower auction at Aalsmeer

The first part of the week the route takes you through the Dutch 'Waterland' region, a region with a characteristic and age-old Dutch landscape. On Monday you will visit a tulip garden (near Alkmaar) where you can learn all there is to know about tulips and tulip growing. The tulip originated in Turkey. The tulip bulb reached The Netherlands at the end of the 16th century. In 1634 there was one single bulb that was so expensive, a whole canalside house in Amsterdam costed the equivalent. 
The Zaanse Schans, which you will visit on Tuesday, is a unique hamlet where people live and work with original houses and windmills from the river Zaan area (17th century). Of course you also will visit the world-famous, 32-hectares’ park The  Keukenhof, where you can admire the wonderfully colorful fields with flowering bulbs in peace and quiet. On the last day you pay a visit to the flower auction at Aalsmeer. Today Aalsmeer controls a market share of 44% for the turnover of bulbs and tulip flowers. Finally you will return to Amsterdam where this tour ends.

The route from day to day + km
sat		Amsterdam, embarkation at 2 PM near Central Station, biking to Purmerend, 20
sun		Purmerend - Alkmaar - Schagen, 45
mon		Schagen - tulip garden - Alkmaar, 70
tue		Alkmaar - Zaanse Schans - Haarlem, 50
wed		Haarlem - Keukenhof - Leiden, 45
thu		Leiden - Kudelstaart, 45
fri		Kudelstaart - flower auction Aalsmeer - Amsterdam, 50
sat		Amsterdam, debarkation before 10 AM near Central Station

1 km = 0.62 miles
Level of difficulty: 1