Den Haag - Day trip to Keukenhof

as planned, we woke up around 8am (or earlier??) to have breakfast with Yorien and to catch her ride to Keukenhof. this is our 1st official ride from a host. her ride is a Peugeot Cabriolet. eve had to squeeze into d back seat cos it a 2 seater with a really small back seat. we had d top opened all through the 40min trip. was pretty cold but fun! we saw some tulip fields even b4 reaching Keukenhof.

when we got to d entrance around 10am, it was already waaaaaaaaay PACKED!!! ok, a bit of background on Keukenhof. it a huge garden full of flowers, apparantly the world's largest flower garden with about 7 millions flower blubs are planted annually. it's only opened like 2 months in a year between march and may. u can do an internet search for more info.

so, that explain why there were HUGE MASSES of people at the garden. we were expecting to spend about 3 hours in d garden. but after we got in and saw d actual size of Keukenhof, we knew there was no way we will leave in 3 hours!

flower power!

there was soooooooooooooooooooooooooo much flowers!!! (much becos we cant count them any more!!!) there's flowers of all colours and all sizes! especially d tulips! i think there are more than 100 species of tulips in d garden alone! it really is amazing to see so many flowers blooming at d same time! words really cant describe what i see. gotta thank my friend amy who strongly recommended the garden to me. we took soooooooo many photos there and i think i'd never seen so many species of flowers at 1 time.

tulip!

tulips!!

there's a lot of creativity in the container used for planting the flowers. so it was all nice to see. here's some more photo...

flowers in boots at Keukenhof

arts piece at Keukenhof

psychedelic flowers at Keukenhof

nice backyard to have

nice colourful flowers at Keukenhof

Tulips field at Keukenhof

yes we both went crazy with d photo taking (eve's camera went dead b4 we even left d garden!)

after 6 hours at d garden, we left n head to d nearest train station for home. Leiden is about 1 hour by bus and is d birthplace of the famous artist Rembrandt. there's Rembrandt everywhere! we spent a couple of hours walking around town to try n soak up d artistic feel in d air... i think it didnt work cos i still cant paint or draw to save my life!!

we figured we had enough for d day by then n head back. ready to rest our feet and have a gd night's sleep.

written by

wangyng on April 13, 2008 from The Hague, Netherlands

from the travel blog: Hello Europe!!

tagged TheHague, Netherlands, Keukenhor and DenHaag

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haha~
see, i told you...u cant miss Keukenholf.
im so happy that u went there and had the amazing experience as me.
u know we both live in the tropical zone, have no idea about what Spring is...
colors blossom in our eyes there.

have fun!

written by amy lu on May 6, 2008

yeah! it's really really cool n nice to experience Spring this way! thanks for d recommendation!!

written by

wangyng on May 8, 2008

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