Royal cycle route through the woods

Your route starts at Restaurant De Egelshoek. This route first goes through the polder, and then through the beautiful forests around Baarn, the Soesterduinen and Soestdijk Palace. Originally, Paleis Soestdijk was a hunting lodge, built in the seventeenth century. The young stadtholder, William III, bought the homestead in 1674. The Crown Prince and his Russian wife had Soestdijk completely renovated into a real summer palace. You can cycle through the green nature around Soestdijk Palace. After stopping at your starting point for lunch, make another scenic loop to the lake area. You will pass the nineteenth-century Persijn estate, with a beautiful monumental country house. Further on you drive into the moors with the characteristic ribbon villages. At Tienhoven you pass the Trouwe Waghter, a former polder mill from 1832.