Around Lummen

This route through the Belgian Kempen, so you get the best of everything on this tour: Lummen has characteristics of the Hageland, Haspengouw and mainly the Kempen. You cycle west of Lummen around the Willekensberg with a peak of 60 meters above sea level. After the Second World War, the hill was planted with conifers for the mining industry and is now being developed into a nature reserve with deciduous forest. On top of the Willekensberg is the chapel De kluis van de beukeboom. You cycle the last part of your route along the Albert Canal. This canal between Liège and Antwerp was dug from 1930 onwards. You cycle along the coal port, a side dock of the Albert Canal that was constructed for the transport of coal. Before the arrival of the coal ports, coal was transported by train to the Walloon steel industry. There is no longer any mining industry, but the coal ports are still used for loading imported coal.