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 Beyond Borders, Mongolian
artist by sachara
It's my favourite festival with wonderful music from all over the world, like African, Asian, South American. You can just listen to the music or dance.
There is also a large market where you can buy many nice goods from the different continents. You can eat all kind of African, Indonesian, Turkish and Vietnamese snacks, drink African beer or Ethiopian coffee.
There are workshops for kids and adults in making music, bamboo objects, African necklaces, body painting.
In 2003 combinations of foreign and Dutch artists showed during the festival how they worked together in the so-called project Beyond Borders.
Their paintings and sculptures have been exhibited in the Centre of Visual Arts later in the season. Leave a Comment
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 Emmen, Nabershof by sachara
The farmhouse is restored in 1992 and authentically furnished in the style of Drenthe as a museum farmhouse.
The farmhouse is only open during special events, like the accordion and concertina festivals the last sunday in June and the first sunday in September.
't Volk van Grada also organise traditional farmer weddingparties and fashion shows of traditional costumes, to be visited.
You can make an appointment for a visit. Leave a Comment Address: Noordeind 21 or PO box 2086, 7801 EmmenPhone: 0591-629601Directions: West of the road to Odoorn, just north of the centre of Emmen, beside the path to the langgraf/ hunebed
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 Emmen, langgraf by sachara
The north chamber has 3 capstones, 6 side- and 2 endstones.
You can park your car nearby, but it is also a nice 10 minutes walk from the centre of Emmen. It's a peaceful place with huge oaks and a nice view at the open landscape.
So have a sit on the bench to enjoy the view and the horses around. Leave a Comment Directions: North of the centre of Emmen, a ten minutes walk. West of the road to Odoorn. The place is signposted (''hunebed'')
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The original zoo is in the middle of the citycentre of Emmen. In 2002 a second part of the zoo is opened at the edge of the centre. A huge pedestrian traverse connects the two parts through the centre of Emmen.
In the new part of the zoo is the South American section. At the Playa Pinguinos you can walk between the pinguins, allthough they made a low fence later, because some of the pinguins liked to walk out of the zoo into the town of Emmen. You can also watch the swimming pinguins under water.
In 2007 they started to make plans to move the whole zoo to this new part. The actual zoo in hte city centre will be transformed into a 'zoo for humans' to live in special houses still ahving the feel of the continents of the former zoo and to spend their leisure time. Leave a Comment
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The Noorderdierenpark is known of its beautiful natural setting of the continents.
In 2003 the North American section in the original park is enlarged, after the South American animals moved to the new built part of the zoo.
Except the three Kodiak bears, there are now also elks and bisons to see.
The zoo is open everyday.
In winter from 10 am to 4.30 pm.
In summer from 10 am to 6 pm. Leave a Comment Address: HoofdstraatPhone: 0591-850850Directions: The zoo is In the citycentre, easy to reach from the trainstation and the parkinglots. Follow the signs.Website: www.noorderdierenpark.nl
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 langgraf in Emmen by sachara
A hunebed is a megalithic skeleton of a burial chambers of 5.500 years old, made of huge boulders of around 25.000 Kg and in the past covered with earth.
These boulders came to Drenthe from Scandinavia, transported by the ice-glaciers, in the ice-period of 200.000 years ago.
The boulders were dragged to the burial place and piled up to rectangular graves.
In Emmen are 10 hunebeds.
The Long Grave is one of a kind in the Netherlands and can further only be found near Oldenburg in Germany. Leave a Comment Address: Noordeind/ Odoornerweg EmmenDirections: West of the road to Odoorn, not far from the centre of Emmen. There is a small parkinglot and the hunebed is signposted. A path of several 100 Ms is leading to the place.
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 Emmen, district court by sachara
It is built round 1855 by the two directors of the Oranjekanaalmaatschappij, inspired by their stay in Indonesia.
The building was started as an house, later it was the office of the Oranjemaatschapij.
In 1891 it became the postoffice of Emmen and in 1911 the district court moved in. Leave a Comment Address: HoofdstraatDirections: In the centre, south of the entrance of the zoo.
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The zoo in Emmen has a beautifull butterfly garden. In a colourfull tropical garden with many flowering plants you can walk between the many colourfull butterflies.
Sometimes a butterfly will come and sit down on your hand. I prefer to go there on a rainy or cold sunday to enjoy the tropics of the garden. It's a relaxing place to sit down for a while Leave a Comment Directions: The zoo is in the citycentre of Emmen.
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The zoo has a nice african savannah with rhino's, zebra's, ostriches, wildebeasts, giraffes and impalas. It's one of my favourite places in the zoo.
At one point you're a eye height with the giraffes. Here are always a lot of people around.
I also like it to sit at the terrace of the safari restaurant, especially in the first hour the park opens it doors. It's a nice time to look at the animals. Leave a Comment Directions: In the citycentre of Emmen
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 The travelling caravan of Wies
Noest by sachara
What I liked most was the travellling caravan of the visual artist Wies Noest. Every time she extended her caravan with new colourfull flags and tents. Leave a Comment
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