{"id":71,"date":"2012-07-02T18:22:45","date_gmt":"2012-07-02T18:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.botelamsterdam.com\/blog\/?p=71"},"modified":"2020-04-01T09:53:14","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T09:53:14","slug":"places-to-visit-outside-amsterdam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.botelamsterdam.com\/blog\/holland\/places-to-visit-outside-amsterdam.html","title":{"rendered":"Places to visit outside Amsterdam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8q7XnOOrlTg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Everybody knows Amsterdam and there is lots to see and do there but if you are willing to undertake a little more time you can see some great tourist attractions not far from Amsterdam too. Holland is a small country so the distances are relatively short. Below are my recommendations for 3 places to see outside Amsterdam.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1) Madurodam in The Hague<\/strong><br \/>\nThis open air miniature park shows the best Holland in one small area. They have recreated a lot interesting places and buildings that are known in The Netherlands. Basically you see all of Holland&#8217;s sight in one place here. They just remodelled the park too so that there more activities to do for kids. But also for adults it&#8217;s interesting to walk around here and see all of the important dutch sights. It&#8217;s about 1 hour away from Amsterdam near The Hague which in itself is a nice place to visit too.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2) Kinderdijk<\/strong><br \/>\nWether you know it or not you probably will have seen some pictures of Kinderdijk in your tourist guide. It&#8217;s a world famous place where you can go to see lots of windmills. You can get a guided tour to visit the mills inside or even rent a bike there because it&#8217;s a big area. It&#8217;s close to Rotterdam, the 2nd largest city of Holland about 1,5 hours away from Amsterdam.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3) Batavia<\/strong><br \/>\nDuring te 17th century Holland, the dutch golden ages, Holland was a dominate force on the sea. In Lelystad a place about 45 minutes from Amsterdam they recreated one of the old VOC ships. You will get a guided tour on the ship and will be able to walk around on it. Quite impressive. There is also a little village recreated there which infact is one big outlet mall with plenty of shops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everybody knows Amsterdam and there is lots to see and do there but if you are willing to undertake a little more time you can see some great tourist attractions not far from Amsterdam too. Holland is a small country so the distances are relatively short. Below are my recommendations for 3 places to see &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.botelamsterdam.com\/blog\/holland\/places-to-visit-outside-amsterdam.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Places to visit outside Amsterdam<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,28,40],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.botelamsterdam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.botelamsterdam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.botelamsterdam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.botelamsterdam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.botelamsterdam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.botelamsterdam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152,"href":"https:\/\/www.botelamsterdam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions\/152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.botelamsterdam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.botelamsterdam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.botelamsterdam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}