Bollenstreek

The Bollenstreek (lit. "Bulb Region") is a region in the province of South Holland in the Netherlands. It is famous for its large flower fields that bloom in spring. At the same time of the year, almost one million visitors see the Keukenhof flower gardens in Lisse.

Cities

🌍 Leiden — vibrant student city with a historic town centre
🌍 Hillegom
🌍 Katwijk
🌍 Lisse — mostly visited in spring for the large Keukenhof flower garden
🌍 Noordwijk — historical city with a nice beach.
🌍 Oegstgeest
🌍 Teylingen (Sassenheim, Voorhout and Warmund)

Other destinations

🌍 Keukenhof — 800,000 visitors from all over the world visit this flower garden and the surrounding flower fields in spring

Understand

Talk

Get in

Get around

See

Flower fields in the Bollenstreek

The bulb fields are a seasonal attraction, in the spring (end of March to the end of May). The main bulb-growing area is on the sandy soil behind the dunes, between Haarlem and Leiden. If you just want to see the flowers briefly, you can do that from the train between Haarlem and Leiden. There are also signposted cycle routes through the bulb fields, such as the Leidse Bollenroute, a 37 km route, starting at the rear of Leiden Station.

Do

Eat

Drink

Sleep

Stay safe

Go next

gollark: `pip install [some package or other]` has run into html5lib, and just decided to overwrite it with no warning or anything.

gollark: You know what's awful? Python dependency management!

gollark: What about a zip file which extracts itself and works as a script for extracting itself too?

gollark: ```pythondef why(regex, string): l = [] while True: l.append(l) ```

gollark: I think the segfault-causing is pretty good though.

This article is issued from Wikivoyage. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.