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Marken is a former island, that is now connected to the mainland by a dam.
It is a small fishermen's town with characteristic wooden houses.
Other people already wrote interesting tips about Marken. Here I would like to draw your attention to the possibility to do a nice walk around the island.
The hike takes 2 or 3 hours, depending if you walk up and down the dam towards Volendam or not.
The hike takes you around Marken, so it does not really matter where you start, just walk along the dyke.
A suggested starting point is the port. Go right after cafe "De Taanderij" onto the cycle-track ("fietspad").
Just before a bunch of willow trees, you can leave the cycle-track and go left onto the dam. This will add an hour to the hike, if you walk until the end of the dam and back. It's certainly worth the effort, with the water on both sides of the dam and the wide views. At the end of the dam, you get a view of the port and church of Volendam.
After the dam, continue your walk to the left, always stay on the dyke.
You will pass the lighthouse (nicknamed "The Horse") and the settlement Rozewerf where icebreakers protect the houses from the ice in the winter.
Follow the dyke, cross the main asphalt road to Marken and continue your walk along the dyke until you are back in the port of Marken.
See the pictures for a map of the island...Just follow the shore!
Bus 111 (Arriva company) takes you from Amsterdam Central station to Marken in 45 minutes!
It is also possible to take a boat from Marken to Volendam.
You cannot enter Marken by car unless you are a resident. There is a big parking before the village, 3.50 euro per day. Leave a Comment
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 by isolina_it
After two hours in Monnickedam we took the bus to Marken. I was told about this village being tiny and nice and it was, houses are typical and much more coloured (it looks too much almost fake surrounding, to be true...), but there are more tourists than Monnickedam. Just an advice: dont try to buy bus tickets to the way back here as the post office is closed and souvenir shops dont sell them!). It is very nice from Marken to sit and have a view of the small harbour. From here we took the boat to Volendam (4 Eur, nice 30 min. trip) (see my travelogue). I love Volendam, along the pier you find a lot of souvenir shops (cheaper than A`dam), but the village is kept very realistically typical (unlike Marken) and you find nice little canals, and a market too.
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 by lkdahl
The village is a throw back to a prior past of fishing and wooden shoes. The houses and some of the people look as they may have 200 years ago. In one of the shops an artisan can be seen carving wooden shoes by hand. Leave a Comment
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Volendam, the most recognised fishing village in the Netherlands, just second behind Amsterdam is a real tourist tempter spectacle.
It is famous not only for its traditional costumes (seen in shop-windows of the gift shops), tasty smoked eel, but also for its picturesque fisherman’s cottages and folklore, as well.
Behind the dike the Doolhof with its tiny, plan-free narrow alleys can be explored. With its sightseeings it tempts tourists, dating back to almost 1875.
Lace, Royal Delftware and wooden clogs are the most popular souvenirs sold in some of the many gift shops.
There are organized half-day or full-day excursion there from Amsterdam - these tours visit also to a cheese markt (Kaasmarkt Edam), a clogmaker shop and to a working windmill somewhere in the nearby Katwoude and the tiny fishing village Marken.
Walking on its narrow streets possibly only the shape of the houses seem to be original. The heat-insulated doors and windows, the tiled roofs are rather the accessories of the modern age. The only real things here maybe the sea, the fish market, and the trawlers in the harbour, which form a lively centre.
The Volendam VVV on Zeestraat 37 is the visitors center, where you get all the information about hotels, restaurants, attractions.
Direction by car: A10, S116, N247 Volendam
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 by Krystynn
Photo: This is what happens when all the tourists are gone for the day! What's left of this place are the deserted cobbled lanes and near-empty souvenir shops!! (See pic below).
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 by keeweechic
The town was once a flouring fishing village but tourism is now the principal economic factor. The harbour was sealed off as part of an inland lake. Leave a Comment
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 by bonio
A twenty minute bus ride from CS. It's a pretty village (too pretty maybe) much visited by coaches etc, but well worth a couple of hours. We visited because we'd heard that Volendam were playing football that afternoon, as it happened they played the night before. This happens to me too often but do your research before you go!!
Never mind several bars and a good meal kept us entertained. Leave a Comment
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