I finally got to Holland to see the tulips in the spring! There is a short, approximately 1-month window when the tulips are blooming in the spring so it's hard to get to see them without some planning and patience.
The best place to see the tulips is of course at the world's largest tulip garden, Keukenhof. The gardens contain over 7 million flowers over a 79-acre area. We spent a handful of hours wandering around the gardens and taking pictures, many of which I have posted below. These gardens are amazing - and they smell so good. However, if you do go, go early!! And I mean the minute it opens at 8am. And on a weekday. Because it gets packed beyond what you can imagine by midday, especially on a weekend. You should have seen all the tour buses lining up to get in. We may have seen almost 100 of them.
There are paths through several differently themed gardens - mostly tulips everywhere but there are other types of flowers there as well. Every year there is a different general theme but it's hard to tell what patterns the flowers are planted in without looking from above. I actually think that, this year, the tulips were planted in the pattern of tulips... super original. ;)
There are also some activities for the kids - a maze, some playground equipment, and a petting zoo complete with baby goats. The maze wasn't exactly challenging for adults but would be great for kids.
These are the flowers that I think looked like tulips from above:
And there were also a few windmills. It's not Holland without a few windmills. Unfortunately we never got close enough to the front of a windmill to get a good picture, but I don't want you to think we didn't see any.
The rest of this blog is just a dump of pictures of some of the flowers. So you get all the beauty without the crowds. Enjoy!
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