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Volendam, Netherlands
Get your discount tickets for the Private Guided Highlights of Holland Tour with Cheese Tasting, save up to 14% !
Overview
If this is your first visit to Holland, this tour is the perfect way to start. Experience the best of the Holland in just one day, including iconic windmills, witnessing traditional clogs being made, and learning about the reclamation of the former South Sea. You’ll also see the famous dikes, explore the charming fishing village of Volendam, enjoy a cheese tasting featuring Edam and Gouda cheeses and try some authentic Dutch liquorice, a unique candy beloved in Holland.
Language Offered
English-GUIDE
Dutch-GUIDE
Itinerary
1. Pick up from your hotel in Amsterdam
2. The Zaanse Schans is a beautiful preservation village with a variety of historical houses, warehouses, and working industrial windmills. It feels like you’re traveling back in time! You will experience how life was between the 18th and 19th centuries. We’ll enjoy a pleasant stroll passing the old wooden houses with their preserved original details, like ceremonial doors and carved lintels, a visit to a working windmill, concluding with a traditional handcraft demonstration of making clogs.
3. Wooden shoe craft demonstration. Always wanted to know how a clog is being made? Join the wooden shoe craft demonstration and find out. In the clog museum we will tell you everything about clogs. You can even try or buy a pair of wooden shoes!
4. A visit to the last paint mill in the world “De Kat”. It was originally built in 1781. It is an octagonal mill with a rotating cap and external gallery. Since its restoration and partial rebuild in 1960 it has been fitted out to grind couloring materials as pigments. After a explanation how the windmill works, you have the opportunity to climb up the windmill and make beautiful pictures on the external gallery.
5. We’ll head to The famous cheese town of Edam. In Edam, we’ll take a stroll in the old centre and visit Henry Willig’s cheese shop to have a Gouda & Edam cheese tasting. They rank among the top 10 cheesemakers globally. If you’re a cheese lover… you’ll be in cheese heaven! They have 30 flavors and develop the cheeses specifically for travel.
6. Lunch time, You can choose where you want to have lunch. As locals, we know a lot of nice places. Whether it’s at a local fish restaurant or just a snack, in Volendam you will have lots of choices.
7. A walk through Volendam, which is known as the most popular fishing village in Holland. The charm of Volendam rests in its harbour and the authentic fishermen’s houses. The maze is the oldest part of Volendam. This is where we’ll see small fishermen’s houses and narrow streets. What’s unique about the maze is that the houses were built without any street pattern. We’ll take a small stroll in the maze and on the famous dike of Volendam.
8. Return to your hotel
Inclusion
Bottle of water
Free entrance
Exclusion
Cancellation Policy
Refundable tickets
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Additional Info
Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Reviews
5.0
Total reviews and rating from Viator & Tripadvisor
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