Zaanse Schans Windmills, Clogs and Dutch Cheese Small-Group Tour

Name: Zaanse Schans Windmills, Clogs and Dutch Cheese Small-Group Tour
Start: 2025-10-08T11:30:00.000+03:00
End: 2025-10-08T14:30:00.000+03:00
Location: Amsterdam

Explore Zaanse Schans and the Dutch countryside this tour from Amsterdam. With an informative guide, admire the lush, canal-crossed Dutch landscape. Take a tour of pretty Zaanse Schans, famous for its wooden windmills and green-painted houses, and visit a cheese farm and clog-making workshop to learn about these traditional crafts. Lastly, visit a working windmill to learn about the role of windmills in the 17th-century Dutch Golden Age.

Meeting point: LOT61 Amsterdam Centraal Station Oosterdoksstraat 4, 1011 DK Amsterdam, Netherlands

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Duration: 3 hours 30 minutes

Group size up to 16 persons

Children allowed

English

Mobile ticket

Full refund for cancellations up to 24 hours

Cancel up to 24 hours in advance to receive a full refund

What is not included

Food and drinks

Hotel pickup and drop-off

Gratuities

Details

Your tour starts in Amsterdam, where you'll meet your guide at a meeting point near Amsterdam Central Station. Then head out to the Dutch countryside with a small group of fellow travelers until you reach the photogenic village of Zaanse Schans, listening to your guide tell you all about the region and its history along the way.

Once in Zaanse Schans, visit the Kooijman Souvenirs & Clogs Wooden Shoe Workshop to see quintessential Dutch footwear being made before continuing to Molen De Kat, a paint mill that relies on wind power to create paint. Your next stop is the Catharina Hoeve Cheese Farm to watch a cheese-making presentation, followed by a cheese tasting at the onsite cheese shop. After experiencing the village, head back to your Amsterdam departure point.

Important Info

• Confirmation will be received at time of booking
• Operates in all weather conditions, please dress appropriately
• As seats on this tour are restricted, all travelers should have a ticket
• Not wheelchair accessible
• This tour contains a moderate amount of walking
• Stroller accessible
• Service animals allowed
• Near public transportation
• Most travelers can participate
• This tour/activity will have a maximum of 16 travelers