Beyond Boundaries Travel: Biking Top of Amsterdam

You will cycle straight across a distinctly rural environment. Not until the 17th Century was this area recovered from the sea and reclaimed with the use of hundreds of windmills. Many of these windmills are still in working order. One can get a feel for the old Dutch atmosphere in Enkhuizen, Hoorn, Edam and Volendam: traditional costumes, sailing ships and long johns on the clotheslines. Then the crossing to Texel. An island with thousands of sheep and a magnificent nature reserve.
Back on the mainland the route brings you over small dykes and country roads, through vast polders and through the most beautiful dune area: from Schoorl, almost unpronounceable for foreigners, to Bergen. These are also the only kilometres you will be cycling above sea level.
Alkmaar will also provide a good picture of ancient times. It is the capital of Dutch cheese with its own cheese market and weigh house for cheese. In Zaanse Schans the mills, still in working order, and houses bring the past to life.

Time for tulips
April and May are the tulip months. You will cycle amid colorful tulip fields hectares wide.

SAT Amsterdam, embarkation, short round trip 20km
SUN Amsterdam-Volendam 42km
MON Volendam - Enkhuizen 57km; or go ashore in Hoorn 27km
TUE Visit the Zuiderzeemuseum, biking from Enkhuizen to Medemblik 33km Sailing to Texel.
WED Texel, round trip 40/50/66km
THU Texel - sailing to Den Helder - biking to Alkmaar 58; or go ashore in
't Zand/Schagerbrug or StMaartensvlotbrug 30/40km Tulip tour 67 (in April and Mai)
FRI Alkmaar - Zaanse Schans - Amsterdam 58km; or go ashore in Zaandam 20km
SAT Amsterdam, debarkation

1 km = 0,62 miles