Tour of Gees and Mantingerveld

Your cycling route starts with a cup of coffee at Hotel Het Witte Veen. You will be the first through the village from which the hotel takes its name. Witteveen is the youngest village in Drenthe: it originated in 1926 as a job creation project on the Balingerveld. Yet the old workers' houses are more than worth a good look. In esdorp Gees you see something typical Drenthe: a boulder. This specimen is almost four meters long and over two meters high. It is the largest in Drenthe. The village has a protected village view. Further on you pass through Balinge, the name comes from a farm that used to be here. In the Mantingerveld you drive through the heath and see drifting sand hills covered with juniper berries.