Giethoorn Complete
Cycle through water villages such as Giethoorn and Dwarsgracht. From here, peat cutters once worked in the bogs. When an area had been dug out, they moved on with all their belongings.
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Giethoorn Complete is a cycling route of 26.3 km. You finish where you started. Allow about 1 h 45 min.
A long bike ride of more than 26 kilometres past almost everything that makes Giethoorn special. You cycle through Giethoorn and the water village of Dwarsgracht, along the Dorpsgracht and the waters of the Bovenwijde and Beulakerwijde lakes.
Along the way you pass, among other things, the Bakker windmill, the Tjasker Giethoorn Noord, Museum Giethoorn 't Olde Maat Uus and museum De Oude Aarde. The route runs through Weerribben-Wieden National Park, the area where peat was once cut.
Allow just over an hour and a half of cycling, without stops.
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