Tour of Holtingerveld and Dwingelderveld

You cycle to the forests of the Holtingerveld. Here and there craters in the ground bear witness to a bombing of a German airfield that was located here during the Second World War. Hence the extremely straight road just above Havelte! A little later you imagine yourself far from civilization in the Dwingelderveld National Park. This is the largest marshy heathland in Western Europe. You can cycle beautifully along rolling heathland, drifting sand, forest and dozens of ponds and small lakes. Rainwater does not soak into the ground here due to an impenetrable layer under the soil surface. This is how more than sixty ponds and heathland lakes were created spread across the area. In the summer, bell heather and heather colour the area beautifully pink and purple.