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If this is your first visit to Holland, this tour would be a great start. Experience the best of Holland in just one day. You'll get to explore the Zaanse schans a 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, witness clogs being made, visit a working windmill, see dikes, indulge in a Gouda and Edam cheese tasting and explore the charming fishing village of Volendam.
Experience the magic of Holland’s windmills with the Windmill Girls.
What's Included
Meeting and pickup
Windmillgirls drive a car or a VIP Mercedes van
Itinerary
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1Amsterdam
Pick up from your hotel in Amsterdam
30 minutes • Admission ticket free -
2Zaanse Schans
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.
30 minutes • Admission ticket free -
3Kooijman Souvenirs & Clogs Wooden Shoe Workshop
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!
30 minutes • Admission ticket included -
4Molen De Kat
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.
30 minutes • Admission ticket included -
5Edam
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.
30 minutes • Admission ticket free -
6Volendam
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.
1 hour • Admission ticket free -
7Haven Volendam
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.
20 minutes • Admission ticket free -
8Amsterdam
Return to your hotel
30 minutes • Admission ticket free
Additional info
- Service animals allowed
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
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Cancellation Policy
- For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
- If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
- Any changes made less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time will not be accepted.
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