Zaanse Schans, Volendam, Amsterdam.

If you had seen my post before, how I spent the morning until noon in Brussels, I spent the rest of the day visiting Zaanse Schans, Netherlands. The area was full of wooden house, mills, barns and workshop which made the 18th and 19th centuries brought back to life. Known as a very famous tourist attractions especially because of their Holland windmills and traditional Dutch life at the historical shipyard. What makes it perfect was the weather, sun's out and still having the wind passed by.

When the clocks strikes 8, that's our cue to go to our new hotel and luckily when we arrived, it located around this peaceful neighbourhood. As the sun sets, my sister and I took a little golden-hour shot. It was so lovely because the sun fades away in so long.

Mornings in Volendam, we were being told by our tour leader to get up earlier this time because we're going to go to the most "a-must" tourist thing which is being photographed in a traditional Dutch costumes. As we walked through the town, people seems like they're really living, especially the ones whose house just across the river. This town is also known as Holland's most famous fishing village, with a harbour full of old fishing ships.

Their Kibbeling (codfish) is THAT good! Ate twice of this
with my tour leader.

Colorful wooden houses in Volendam

Next destination is like going to another part of the world, seeing how beautiful the Earth is!It's one of the largest flower gardens, "Festivals of Tulips" or "Tulips Heaven" is what they called. Hard to believe that there's actually over 7 million different kinds of flowers planted annually in the park which covers an area of 32 hectares. People are either having a picnic, reading, talking, or just lie down on the grass. The colors of the flowers looked so surreal, as if it were painted.

Then off we go after a 3 hours well-spent observing pretty flowers bloom, God bless Spring. Our last stop before going back to the hotel is Amsterdam, and shopped a little through the afternoon since they were so many temptation of clothes. Strolled around and realized that there were so many cyclists here! The canalside walk made the day a lot better and some people couldn't get enough of the canals that they actually live on one. Half an hour before we have to go back to our tour bus, my sister and I decided to sip some coffee in the Van Gogh Cafe next to Lovers canal cruise. Oh Amsterdam, you beauty.