De Ronde Venen and Rondehoep
Cycling through an open peat meadow landscape, where marshy bogs, deep peat pools, winding rivers, historic forts, and vast meadows intersect with an endless web of ditches.
The Landscape
In the regions of De Ronde Venen and Rondehoep, a landscape of low-lying polders unfolds, shaped by the ancient hands of peat harvesting and land reclamation. A quintessential Dutch peat meadow area, where winding peat streams carve their way through a spiderweb of ditches. To the east lie the Vinkeveense Plassen, an expansive nature and water sports area, with long, narrow plots that emerged during the Golden Age through the draining of marshlands.
Peat harvesting has given the Vinkeveense Plassen its distinctive fan-shaped pattern, with countless ditches and turf plots slowly fading into the rippling waves of the lakes. Along the winding streams, the outlines of forts and batteries emerge, silent sentinels that once aimed to defend the area, a place where the Royal House, the government, and the army could retreat in the event of an attack on the Netherlands.
Polders and Farmlands
Swamps and Peatlands
Lakes and Ponds
Estates and Heritage
Join us on this virtual cycling route
Route map
Start and finish at bike node 71 on the Abcouderstraatweg in Amsterdam-Zuidoost. However, this bike route is a circular tour, so it offers the possibility to start from any of the following bike nodes.
71 - 69 - 62 - 68 - 1 - 2 - 49 - 48 - 44 - 38 - 17 - 30 - 31 - 78 - 33 - 52 - 74 - 83 - 26 - 65 - 22 - 27 - 28 - 71
