Veluwezoom National Park
Starting off my first post in the Netherlands and my first post in general with this breathtaking place!
Veluwezoom National Park, to my opinion the best natural area you can find in the Netherlands.
A unique environment filled with wildlife, dense forests and viewing points.
But the main selling point of this park has to be the wide open fields, huge fields filled with hundreds of purple flowers, something you’d see on a Van Gogh painting.
This is the perfect place to clear your mind, go for a stroll and be one with nature.
While the fields can be quite busy the forests around it are not!
It’s a huge area where you can walk around for hours while hardly seeing anyone else.
Well except for the occasional deer, squirrel or rabbits perhaps haha..
Like I said the place is filled with wildlife and while the chances of seeing them are slim, they certainly aren’t none.
Deers, boars, squirrels and even wild horses roam these lands!
Especially the wild horses are a sight to behold! They usually wander in groups across the wide open fields, seeing them gallop through these purple lit fields is a rare and beatiful sight.
Another thing I’d highly recommend is to find the viewing point called: Posbank.
It is easily reachible by car and by bicycle and provides you with a stunning view over the wide open fields!
And on bright days you can catch a glimpse of nearby cities and even Germany in the distance!!
Posbank also has plenty of car parking availabilities, so get out of your car, walk towards the viewing point and from there on hike your way down along 1 of the dozens of trails available!
Done with walking and looking for a meal or something to quench your thirst?
Then the Posbank lookout points hosts a nice restaurant called: Paviljoen Posbank.
Location:
The National Park is located to the east of the Netherlands just a 30min drive from the German border.
Now the Park is very close to the bigger cities of Arnhem and Nijmegen, from Arnhem it would take you about 25min by car and public transport or just a 40min cycle!
From the city of Nijmegen it takes you about double the amount of time.
Travel time from the bigger cities:
Amsterdam> about 1,5 hour by car or public transport.
Rotterdam> 1,5 hours by car and 2 hours by public transport.
Utrecht> about 1 hour either by car or by public transport.
Biggest waterfall in The Netherlands
Wanna go for a quick laugh after all that hiking? Then visit the Loenense waterfall nearby, the highest waterfall in the Netherlands!😅
A fall of a staggering 15 meters.. and indeed to make it even better, it’s artificially created. A huge contender to beat the famous Austrian waterfalls I’d say😉
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