Visvliet, Kollum and Buitenpost

The Netherlands is known abroad for its windmills, its tulips and its clogs, but the polder landscape is certainly a great cultural heritage. About four thousand polders were created to shape our country. Canals, waterways, gullies, fens, gullies and ditches irrigate the grounds here using the most ingenious systems that regulate the water. Although there are three types of polders, polders, dykes and reclamation, you can assume that you will mainly see polders. Open water has been reclaimed in a polder. Here a lake or puddle has literally been dried up. Embankments are reclaimed areas on the coast and during reclamation, natural wasteland has been reclaimed and prepared for cultural processing.

In the polder you will pass characteristic villages such as Kollum and Visvliet, which only have a few thousand inhabitants. The horizon is far away in this landscape that stretches out before you.

If you like flowers and plants, get off your bike at De Kruidhof botanical garden. Here you will find seventeen themed gardens, where unique plant collections grow and bloom luxuriantly. In total there are about 2,000 species on display, spread over more than 3.5 hectares of land. A wonderful place to stretch your legs!