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Holland Day Tour: Windmills, Cheese, and Volendam
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3 Ratings
Amsterdam
Discover Holland’s charm with a private guided tour. Explore windmills, taste local cheese, and step back in time in picturesque villages.
Duration:
6 hours, 30 minutes
Cancellation:
1 day
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Highlights
- Amsterdam - Pick up from your hotel in Amsterdam
- Zaanse 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.
- Kooijman 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!
- Molen 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.
- Edam - 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.
- Volendam - 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.
- Volendam Haven - 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.
- Amsterdam - Return to your hotel
What's Included
- Bottle of water
- Private transportation
- Free entrance
- Parking fees
What's Not Included
- Lunch
Additional Information
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, who were raised in windmills and let their rich heritage and engaging tales make your journey truly unforgettable!
Location
Amsterdam
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
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Mariettev42
Jul 20, 2024
Wonderful Experience - We had an amazing day and our guide Esther was very enthusiastic and she shared all her knowledge with us. Thank you Esther for the great experience! Mariette
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Sueoc13
May 28, 2024
Fabulous tour and wonderful guides. Great ladies! - We had an amazing experience with the WindMillGirls on our family trip to Amsterdam. We were lucky enough to get both ladies as our tour guides and they were absolutely wonderful. We visited the tulips the windmills the cheese factory. Everything was just perfect. We stopped for a lovely lunch outside at their recommendation and the family thought it was one of the best afternoons that they spent in Amsterdam. I would highly recommend them to anybody that wants to wonderful tour in Amsterdam
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Vanessab469
May 23, 2024
Definitely a MUST when you visit Holland - Thanks to Esther, one of the windmill girls, we had a fantastic day out discovering the area around Amsterdam. She took a lot of time to answer our questions, knew the best photo spots and shared so much information about life in the Netherlands.
Highly recommended!
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