Walking route Valtherbos

From Cafe't Haantje Eten & Drinken you can take a varied walk. First you walk a bit along the Oranjekanaal. This waterway was dug between 1853 and 1861 to open up the peat area around Emmen. Between the trees you look out over fields and grasslands on the right. After a while you walk through Klijndijk, a reclamation village. Then you walk into the Valtherbos. The path mainly leads you past fragrant conifers. You pass a former hiding place here, a place marked with a large boulder. From 1943 until the liberation, sixteen Jewish people in hiding stayed here. Resistance fighter Albertus Zefat was betrayed in 1944, but refused to mention the location of the hiding place. He was summarily executed by the Germans. Via Klijndijk you walk back to Cafe't Haantje Eten & Drinken.