In the Wadden Sea region countless unique stories arise, which deserve to be shared. Stories to discover during your adventure on the Wadden.
In the Wadden Sea region countless unique stories arise, which deserve to be shared. Stories to discover during your adventure on the Wadden.
In the Wadden Sea region countless unique stories arise, which deserve to be shared. Stories to discover during your adventure on the Wadden.
There are very few natural World Heritage Sites that are as vast yet so densely populated as the Wadden Sea UNESCO World Heritage Site. Where man and nature meet, stories are written. Discover the Wadden area through these stories as they take you to unknown places, interesting meetings and surprising flavours.
The Wadden Sea is the last of the authentic nature in the Netherlands. Weather, wind and water continuously create new landscapes of mud, marshes, dunes, gullies and sandy plains. This vast tidal area is essential to millions of birds and fish. It is also home to several large predators such as the common and grey seal. And you may even catch a glimpse of a harbour porpoise. Discovering, experiencing and researching are all rewarded at the Wadden Sea World Heritage Site.
The bird hide outside of the dike - the locals call it kiekkaaste - is a wonderful place to spot and photograph birds. Hundreds of dunlins forage on the mudflats and sometimes twites can be spotted on the marshes.
The Peazemerlannen is an 85 hectare nature reserve near the villages of Paesens and Moddergat in north-eastern Friesland. In this transition area between sea dike and mudflats you’ll find everything you might expect from an outside dike marsh area.
Although the four Kroon’s Polders are famous for their natural beauty and abundance of birds, the area is also a water heritage. The Kroon’s polders are named after the legendary P.A. Kroon, Supervisor from the Ministry of Waterways and Public Works who was stationed on Vlieland from 1900.
The Netherlands was formed by its relationship with the water and you’ll find traces of this everywhere in the Wadden area. Terps and mounds, an intricate network of dikes, pumping stations, polders and the Afsluitdijk. The Wadden has a reputation to uphold when it comes to water management. The coast and the islands have largely been reclaimed from the sea. Often it fought back with devastating storm floods. But the Wadden area made peace with the sea. For the first time in history water is allowed more space; a sustainable answer to climate change.
The first Dutch Delta Design. The terps and mounds show how the first inhabitants of the Wadden coast protected themselves against the sea. Not far to climb for a peak experience.
When Napoleon Bonaparte in Fort Kijkduin visited Huisduinen in 1811 he saw the very strategic importance of Den Helder. He commissioned the construction of Fort Kijkduinen and wanted to make Den Helder a major naval port. It was to become ‘the Gibraltar of the North’.
The Stryperpolder is the oldest polder on the island, one could say the mother of Terschelling's agricultural land. It is still very recognisable as a channel landscape, with the Stryper marsh on the other side of the dike. The polder was named after its oldest settlement, Stryper, constructed on a natural mound formed by the dunes.
