The Pink Elephant Route

  • Belgium
  • Flanders
  • Ghent
  • 33.41 km (Approximately 01:57 u)
  • Cycling route 541064
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The Pink Elephant Route

  • Belgium
  • Flanders
  • Ghent
  • 33.41 km (Approximately 01:57 u)
  • Cycling route 541064

Along the Scheldt near Ghent, you can enjoy the beautiful natural beauty for miles. You also drive through the Dam valley nature reserve.

Gentbrugse Meersen
The Scheldt used to be a wide meandering river. It regularly overflowed its banks and in this way ensured a natural fertilization of the surrounding land. This land was used as pasture, hayfields and fields. After the straightening of a Scheldt meander in 1870, this landscape largely disappeared. Except in the Gentbrugse Meersen and Merelbeekse Meersen, where you cycle through a characteristic open lake landscape.

Keizerpark
The Dam valley is a low-lying, humid nature reserve formed by a number of landed meanders of the Scheldt. You will see flowery hay meadows, peat pits, willow and alder thickets and two lakes. A little further on you drive on the Scheldt dike along the Kalverbos, an enclosed nature reserve. The Keizerpark on the edge of Ghent is the starting and finishing point of this route. This cozy city park is located on a peninsula in the Scheldt and is a green hotspot.

Directions

# Description Distance
9050, Ghent, Flanders, Belgium 0.00 km
De Damvallei (Damvallei, 9070, Destelbergen, Flanders, Belgium) 5.38 km
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8 (9070, Destelbergen, Flanders, Belgium) 7.64 km
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8 (9070, Destelbergen, Flanders, Belgium) 7.69 km
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11 (9070, Destelbergen, Flanders, Belgium) 11.52 km
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12 (9070, Destelbergen, Flanders, Belgium) 16.14 km

Sights

De Damvallei

Damvallei
9070 Destelbergen
http://www.damvallei.be

The Dam Valley originated from an old meander of the Scheldt. Willow rows, small willow trunks and grasslands define the landscape. The main eye-catcher in the area is the Damvallei Lake, an artificial water feature that was created by sand extraction for the construction of the E17 motorway. Sailing is possible on the Damslootmeer, where competitions and sailing lessons are regularly organized.

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