Het Twiske Nature Reserve

Description:

• About 5 kilometers north west of Amsterdam's central station, you'll find a huge nature reserve covering around 150 square kilometers. It's an ideal location to discover the Dutch landscapes that featured in so many of the Dutch Masters paintings. There are vast lakes, windmills, wind swepts grasslands, native cattle grazing, and miles of bike paths to explore. It's also a great place for children, with several large play areas with tunnels, spider nets over rivers, boats that they can paddle, zip slides and more. There's also a shallow water play area in the summer with wooden pirate ships and other games. For the adults there's a fantastic restaurant, Paviljoen 't Twiske (/) which won the best of the restaurant week award in 2010 and has a magical feeling about it. It's a wooden building right on the waters edge, which is lit by strings of fairy lights. There's also every kind of water sport option available in the park.

  It's accessible by car, 30 minutes biking from Amsterdam Central Station or by public transport bus 92 from Central Station to busstop Kolkweg.

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