Weerribben National Park - Wieden

Trees, water, birds and endless reed fields: nature in the Weerribben looks unspoilt. But appearances are deceiving, because every meter of land here is man-made. Over the course of three centuries, the residents dug the peat to make peat. The shovel turned the landscape into a swampy swamp area where narrow strips of land and water alternate. An age-old cultural landscape of swamp forests, meadows, water, peat villages, blooming orchids and lots of reeds. A large, green maze where you can wander endlessly. That is the Weerribben. Cycle along the water, with the song of reed warblers and reed warblers coming from the reeds. Mute swans and purple herons fly through the air, some splashing in the water could be an otter!