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Tour to the Windmills, Cheese and Clogs and Volendam from Amsterdam
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Duration - 5 hours
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Guide optionsEnglish
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Cancellation PolicyStandard
Overview
Enjoy a half day sightseeing tour to the Windmills, Cheese and Clogs and Volendam from Amsterdam. See the beautiful windmills, taste the best Dutch cheese and see how Clogs are made. Pick up and drop off is at your hotel in Amsterdam.
Highlights
- See the Amazing Windmills
- Taste the best Dutch Cheese
- Purchase a pair wooden shoes
Description
Tour to the Windmills, Cheese and Clogs and Volendam from Amsterdam
Enjoy a half day Sightseeing tour to the windmills, the countryside, a local cheese and clogs factory and Volendam.
You will visit a unique Dutch park called the Zaanse Schans not far from Amsterdam. Here are the most special windmills of The Netherlands such as the paint windmill, the sawmill, spices mill and peanut oil.
Thereafter you will see how we make the original Dutch clogs and there is a possibility to buy clogs/wooden shoes and souvenirs.
The second stop will be at the Henri Willig farm where they will teach you how they treat their cows and there is a possibility to see how they milk the cows and you can see and touch the baby cows. Thereafter it is time to taste more than 30 types of very nice Dutch cheese for free!
At last you will visit Volendam where you can lunch in one of the best fish restaurants in town, buy some very nice Dutch waffles or enjoy the nice Harbor of Volendam.
Duration of the tour will be approx. 5 hours and the pick up and drop off is in Amsterdam.
What's included
- Inclusions:
- Professional driver/host
- Admission to the windmillspark and 1 ticket for a windmill of your choice
- Hotel pick up and drop off by a private air-conditioned Mercedes vehicle
- Wifi an bottled water on board
- Possibility to buy the best waffles in Volendam
- Possibility to taste 30 different types of cheese and to buy cheese and clogs
- Possibility to see how they milk the cows with a milking robot
- Exclusions:
- Professional Guide
- Tip (optional)
Itinerary
- Visited Places:
- Zaanse Schans
- Kaasboerderij de Jacobs Hoeve
- Volendam
1: Visit the Windmills park: Discover the great Dutch Windmills and see them from inside. There are 7 windmills left at the Zaanse Schans and a few are open to visit. You can see the paint windmill (that is where Rembrandt the great Dutch artist purchased his paint), a saw mill, a spice mill and many more. There is also a possibility to take nice pictures of the windmills. Duration approx. 90 minutes.
Admission to the windmill park is included in this tour and also an entrance ticket for 1 windmill of your choice is included in this tour.
2: Visit the Clogs maker: Learn more about the Dutch wooden shoe making and see a demonstration how they make the Dutch clogs now. There is a possibility to buy the wooden shoes, the clogs and other souvenirs in the wooden shoe factory as well. Duration approx. 30 minutes.
3: Visit Jacobs Hoeve Cheese farm: Learn more about the Dutch wooden shoe making and see a demonstration how they make the Dutch clogs now. There is a possibility to buy the wooden shoes, the clogs and other souvenirs in the wooden shoe factory.
See a real Dutch farm with cows and baby cows. You will get an explanation how the Henri Willig farm makes their cheese from the milk of the Jersey cows. They have an automatic milking robot and see how they milk their cows automatically.
After the cows it is time to taste their special Gouda cheese. You can eat as much cheese as you want for free! There are more than 30 different types of cheese so enjoy!
There is a possibility to buy the cheese and if you don't have enough room in your suitcase you can let them ship the cheese to your country. Duration approx. 45 minutes.
4: Visit Volendam: Explore the nice and most famous Dutch fishing village Volendam. You can have a nice lunch in one of the best fish restaurants in town, buy very nice fresh Dutch waffles or stroll over the famous dijk and see the nice harbor of Volendam. There is also a possibility to buy some souvenirs as well. Duration approx 1 hour.
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Tour to the Windmills, Cheese and Clogs and Volendam from Amsterdam duration is 5 hours.
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