Walking through the Flemish Ravels

Ravels is a beautiful village just above Turnhout, Belgium. Grab your walking shoes for a nice varied route.

Nightingale
Walking along the Meiboomlaan you will see the Nachtegaal der Maatvennen on your left: a poetic name for a flour mill from 1869. This mill grinds whiskey and jenever for a Dutch distillery just across the border. While you walk across the Gilseinde, you look out over the meadows.

Regional forests
You walk a bit through the Regional Forests. It is wonderfully quiet here to walk among the mix of deciduous and coniferous trees. Then you walk along the leafy banks of the canal. At the end, the path turns into a car-free road that takes you between meadows and past some plots of unspoilt forest. Back in Ravels you walk past the St. Servatius Church from 1908, the choir dates from the sixteenth century.