Experience the versatile Wadden region
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Explore the Wadden
The most beautiful nature reserve in the Netherlands
Welcome to the most beautiful nature reserve in our country: the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Wadden Sea. Experience the nicest routes across the islands and the Wadden coast, experience the best stories or view the many options at the best locations. Whether you want to enjoy the freshest meal of the Wadden, are looking for the perfect place to wake up or want to experience the best activity; at Visit Wadden, great enjoyment begins. Feel free!
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Visit the Wadden Sea region
Visit the Wadden Sea region
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Ferry crossings
Ferry crossings
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Experience the trails
Experience the trails
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Het Ziltepad
Het Ziltepad
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Events
Events
Discover the regions - of the Wadden Sea Unesco World Heritage Site
Wadden Sea World Heritage Site
The Wadden Sea World Heritage Site boasts the title of ‘most beautiful nature area’ in the Netherlands. The Wadden Sea is one of the last remaining large tidal areas where the forces of nature are free to do as they please. It is different every time you visit it as water, sediment and sand move with the tides. Thanks to the many gullies, creeks and channels the mudflats and sandy plains are exposed, providing a resting place for seals and where birds can forage to their hearts’ content.
Discover more about the Wadden Sea area through our various story lines.
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Water Heritage
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Taste of the Wadden
Stories about the Wadden
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8 sustainable Wadden getaways
World Heritage
The Wadden area offers endless opportunities for sustainable tourism and adventure. By undertaking these sustainable getaways, you will be contributing to the preservation of this unique and fragile area so that future generations can enjoy it too.
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6 times out and about with kids
World Heritage
In the Wadden area there is plenty to do with children. Here the little adventurers get the chance to discover the inhabitants of the mud flats. From tough fishermen bringing in their catch to funny crabs shuffling across the sand.
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5 delicious regional products from the Wadden region
Taste of the Wadden
The wadden region is full of honest local products. Nowhere else will you find so many surprising flavours and products as in the wadden region. We list a number of regional products for you, often organically grown.
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The darkest night for Paesens-Moddergat
Coast Friesland
It was a dark night they have never forgotten in Paesens and Moddergat. During a fierce storm, most men from the two fishing villages lost their lives.
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5 dark spots on the Wadden Islands
Darkness of the Wadden
Winter time has started again, so that means it gets dark earlier again! But how dark does it actually get these days with all that artificial light? One thing is certain: nowhere do you experience darkness as purely as in the Wadden area.
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The Rottums
World Heritage
The Rottums are the least known of the Wadden islands. Those who love the Wadden would be thrilled to explore these islands, but they are closed to visitors. In this bit of the Netherlands, nature comes before humans.
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Take a walk with Gerrit de Oesterman
Wadden: Vlieland
Take a walk along the Wadden with Vlieland native Gerrit to discover everything about what lives there and what's edible. Afterwards you can enjoy the oysters you picked yourself.
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Of seaweed and bunker cheeses
Wadden: Vlieland
No better match for an island than seaweed! During summer you can find heaps of it on the Wadden, full of vitamins, minerals, iodine and iron. Seaweed is the food of the future.
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Tea garden land
Coast Friesland
Northwest Friesland is the land of tea gardens. Many farms have their own terrace where you can enjoy local home-made sweet and savoury snacks.
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Beer from the source
Coast Friesland
754: Bonifatius was murdered near Dokkum. What the history books don’t mention: this event also marked the start of a special brewing tradition. Dokkum once had 19 breweries and beer is still being brewed here.
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Finger-licking good beans and peas
Coast Friesland
They were threatened with extinction but Dick Trom and the Kollumer zoete grauwe erwt (sweet grey pea) are back! And this won’t surprise you once you’ve tasted them.
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Taste the salty temptation
Taste of the Wadden
The Taste of the Wadden is salty. Fish, shellfish and edible marsh plants, but also various meats and vegetables get their characteristic flavours from the Wadden Sea World Heritage Site.