Tour of Deurnsche Peel and Mariapeel

After enjoying a snack and drink at Graaf Ter Horst, you get on your bike to explore Peel. Via Horst you drive to the Heesbeemden, a nature reserve that consists of swamp forests where alders and willows grow in abundance. A little later you cycle through the fragrant pine forest of the Steegberg, this area was only reclaimed after the Second World War. Further on you pass through Helenaveen and, a little later, through Griendtsveen: the only two former peat colonies in the southern Netherlands. You drive between these villages exactly on the border of Brabant and Limburg. On the left you see the Deurnsche Peel, on the right the Mariapeel. Both are a unique remnant of an old vast raised bog area. The Schadijkse Bossen are the last nature reserve on your route.