Walking through the forest of Krimpenerhout

Walking through the Krimpenerwaard is wonderful. It is a Dutch polder country through and through. With long strips of land, pollard willows along the ditches and a springy soil. The Krimpenerwaard used to be a difficult to reach and therefore isolated area, but now it is a perfect walking area, whatever the season. Ditches are disappearing and in a number of places the topsoil has been excavated to create good conditions for moisture-loving plants and animals. You depart from Theetuin and B&B Onder De Pannen in Lekkerkerk. Here you can enjoy lunch or a cup of coffee with homemade apple pie before or after your walk. Then you put on your walking shoes to walk to Krimpenerhout; a recreation area with surfing lake. Along the way you will see the different stages of the transformation of a tight peat meadow polder into a varied recreational landscape.