Flower Tourism in the Netherlands: Impressive Destinations

In spring time with warm sunshine, Keukenhof Park heartily welcomes visitors. From a modest park of a Princess, Keukenhof has now become famous and regarded as a “European park” with over 7 million kinds of flowers, especially tulips, eternal beauty of the Netherlands, with 4.5 million tulips of over 100 kinds. Beautiful Keunkenhof is the product of cooperation between 7 famous flower planters and exporters in neighbouring villages. Roots and seeds are most important in 7 gardens. Each garden is designed with a special topic, impressing visitors immensely with colours and scents, renaissance or abstract schools.

 

Keukenhof is open for tourists from the last week of March to mid-May. The best time for tulips is from late April to early May depending on the weather. In a vast area with winding streams and paths, Keukenhof paradise offer tourists large fields of tulip, narcissus, and hyacinth. Rows of oak trees along the gravel paths with biggest fountains in Europe and beautiful lake create a picturesque scene of fairy land. The landscape is decorated further by attractive parades organized annually in mid-April with trucks of colourful flowers and nice-looking dolls. Tourists can also ride bicycles, pedalling slowly among flower fields and enjoying pure and fresh air. Keukenhof has a small and peaceful river with swans floating on the surface, green bushes covering the two riverbanks, birds hovering in the sky or hopping in front of visitors.

Visiting Keukenhof, one will never forget the scenic beauty, as well as the local people who have created the great memorial paradise of flowers.

 

Floriade flower festival is the special and most impressive flower festival in the Netherlands. It is celebrated every 10 years in city of Haarlemmermeer. This rare festival showcases the city’s attractiveness and vitality.

 

Visiting Floriade, tourists can see all kinds of tulips and hundreds of other kinds of flowers blooming in the sunshine. Many people love tulips for their nobleness. Each flower is identified with a colour and fragrance, seducing every tourist. Tulip flowers in bud, half bloomed or full blooming make a lively picture changing incessantly in colour and scent. In an area of 65 hectares, the trade fair is divided into three sections: by the lake, on the hill and inside the gate. Passing through the gate, visitors can see large tulip fields. From the hill top looking down to the lake, visitors will be impressed by the romantic scene in a pure environment.

 

Annual festivals are celebrated by people of Polish and Latin origins with several cultural activities performed by local and foreign artists. It has also several amusement programmes for both grownups and young people, such as carnival and fireworks. The festival is most distinguished with three parades: Volksparade, Kinderparade and Muziekparade.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    

Floriade is well glorified as the world’s most attractive flower festival.

 

The Black Tulip Museum is the most distinguished destination in Lisse city. The museum has ancient records of how the low land was reclaimed, the mysterious black tulip discovered, flower trade and planting methods were developed. In particular, visitors can see short films on how tulip is planted and parades that take place throughout the year.