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Enjoying your stay in Nijmegen
Gelderland, The Netherlands

Nijmegen is a beautiful city even though you might find it a bit crowded.

Enjoying the Nature:

There are lot of nature routes for walking and biking in and around Nijmegen. The famous of them is the Berg en Dal route, N-70 (in Dutch). Where you can also see the thickest tree in the Netherlands- 500yr old Kabouterboom (~8.5m in circumference) and the smallest village of NL (a church and 2 farm houses!) from the opposite hills.


http://www.wandelnet.nl/

If you like skating, there is skate route as well as Triavium ice-skating ring in the winter months.

  • Nearest National Park: Hoge Veluwe
    • Site about the area http://www.theveluwe.com/.
  • Botanical Garden

    • Not to be missed are the two historical parks in the centre of Nijmegen:

  • Kronenburger park
  • Valkhof park

    • You should visit Goffert park in the middle of the city on a hot summer day and will enjoy the cool of the trees! You can visit the Staddijk park - if you live in the south of the City.

    Mini-Attraction Parks:

  • Seasonal Carnavel in Goffert park / City center

    • Visiting Museums:

    If you enjoy visiting musea, you can subscribe for the Museum Card and a majority of the Museum in the Netherlands will be free to visit. It cost 50 Euro for a year or 25 Euro if you're under 18!(+5 Euro 1 time registration fee).

  • Museaum Park Orientalis: Visiting the middle-east in a day!
  • Afrika Museum: Visiting Africa in a day!
  • Velorama - Bike Museum Nijmegen
  • MuZIEum - Museum about blind
  • Het Valkhof - Valkhof Museum for Nijmegen history
  • Nijmegen Natural History Museum
  • National Liberation Museum
  • Open Air Museaum Arnhem - this is in nearby city, highly recommended!

    • If you're not a Museum fan and want to visit only a couple of them, then the twice a year free or reduced entry to many museums is the best option. Once a year there will be a "Nationale museumdag" National Museum dag where you can visit Museums on a reduced rate and some even free of charge. For the last several years Province Gelderland has been holding a free museum day in October (for 2013 - 19th Oct), where you are allowed to visit a number of Musea in GLD free of charge or for EUR 1. See the links for more info on Museum Weekend in April as well as the Free museum day in Gelderland in October.

    The 2nd weekend of September 2013 is Monument weekend and in Nijmegen many of the monuments are open and free to visit. See link for details Monument Day. Apart from this there is the largest medieval festival in NL that is held in Nijmegen in August by Limburg brothers. The Sunday of the weekend is also the "Tower Day", where you can gain free access to many of the old towers in the city .

    Wild-Life Attractions:

  • Nearest: Burger's Zoo Arnhem - has won best European zoo award.

    • Transportation: Getting around

  • Novio - Site of local Nijmegen bus company

    • (To be continued...)
    1. Virtual Tourist: Nijmegen
    2. Tourism Board Site: Region of Nijmegen
    3. Accomodations in Nijmegen.
    4. English Language Churches in Nijmegen
    5. Expatica: Living in the Netherlands



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