28/04/2010
Visiting Amsterdam – Canal Cruises, Van Gogh & Red Light District
Visiting Amsterdam provide you with the positive challenge of having to choose between all the exiting Amsterdam attractions. Whether you are on a City Break or spending your holiday in Amsterdam – you wont have enough time to do it all.
The spirit of Amsterdam has a reputation of being broad minded, and that explains why many people immediately think of mind-expanding cafés, with all kinds of funny tobacco, and lightly dressed women decorating the windows in the Red Light District.
Yes, prostitution and smoking Marijuana is legal – but the Dutch capital has a lot more than that to offer.
A canal-cruise is an excellent introduction to the city and they come in all kind of themes like dinner-cruise, jazz-cruise or pizza-cruise.
Another way to get familiar with Amsterdam is strolling past beautiful buildings from the 14th and 15th century, enjoy small shops & stylish boutiques, do a discovery on the flee market and then find a delicious little café where you can rest your legs and let it all soak in.
Van Gogh fans will have a field day visiting the Van Gogh Museum. The museum contains the largest collection of paintings by Vincent Van Gogh in the world, including such famous works as Sunflowers and several self-portraits.
The I Amsterdam Card gives you free admission to 24 museums including world-famous Van Gogh Museum & the impressive Rijks-museum famous for its Rembrandt masterpieces.
If you have read The Diary of Anne Frank it is a most to visit her house. The former hiding place is now a well-known museum that tells the story of Anne Frank & the eight people hiding from the Nazi’s and those who helped them during the war. Anne Frank’s diary is
among the original objects on display.
You can choose from more than 200 hotels in Amsterdam in the price range from approximately EUR 55 – 200.
A hostel is another and a usually cheaper possibility. Private double rooms starts from EUR 20 pp.
Enjoy Amsterdam.
Filed under City Break | by Finca Fantastica Travel
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