Plan your bike trip

Amsterdam - Hoorn

Distance: 50.6 kilometres

Starting in Amsterdam, it will take you less than ten minutes by bike to travel from a busy early 20th century residential area - across the Schellingwouderbrug (Schellingwoude bridge) and underneath the ring road - to the tranquillity of the countryside. In the ...

Hoorn - Medemblik

Distance: 49 kilometres
The first West Frisian city that you’ll visit today is Hoorn. At the beginning of the Eighty Years' War (1568-1648), Hoorn had a short stint as Holland’s most important trading city. That was because Amsterdam initially sided with the Spaniards, whereas many ...

Medemblik - Workum

Distance: 69 kilometres
Between Medemblik and Den Oever, the landscape looks quite different. You’re cycling through the Wieringermeer polder now, the only true Zuiderzee polder. That’s because this area was drained in 1930, before the Afsluitdijk was built. Near Den Oever you ride through the first ...

Workum - Lemmer

Distance: 52.4 kilometres

Today you’re leaving Workum, an attractive Zuiderzee town that was a relatively busy port city as early as around 1400. You can still find quite a few shipyards here that date back to those days. Via the Aldedyk, an old dyke along the ...

Lemmer - Kraggenburg

Distance: 51.1 kilometres

Cycling through Lemmer it’s immediately clear what this town’s main source of income is. It’s a prime water sports town that attracts many tourists. In the late 19th century Lemmer was one of the most important fishing towns in the ...

Kraggenburg - Elburg

Distance: 58.2 kilometres

You enter that new land, the Noordoostpolder, via the village of Kraggenburg and the Voorsterbos forest, riding through a flat polder landscape where everything seems to be laid out as straight as possible. Then you arrive at a real island on dry land, ...

Elburg - Spakenburg

Distance: 52.6 kilometres
Today’s stage starts in the beautiful town of Elburg. Within its city walls from 1392, the square fortified town almost resembles a museum. The entire street plan and the buildings date back to that time. Originally, this Hanseatic town was located in a different ...

Spakenburg - Amsterdam

Distance: 50,3 kilometres
In its old harbour you can still see original ‘botters’, the 19th century flat-bottomed boats that were used to fish on the Zuiderzee. The thirty botters in Spakenburg make up about half of the entire Dutch botter fleet. The Spakenburg people primarily earn their ...