Amsterdam Excursions and Sights
from Amsterdam Web Guide

ABOVE: Tour boat on canal, Amsterdam.

Sights

Amsterdam Heritage
This ambitious site provides an introduction to the city's history and architecture, complete with period photographs.

Amsterdam Hotspots: Sights
A succinct and handsomely illustrated roundup of major sights with maps to help you get your bearings.

Tours and sightseeing

Viator: Amsterdam our partner
Book city tours and regional day excursions online before you leave home. Viator guarantees prices in euros, British pounds, and U.S. or Australian dollars.

A Day in Amsterdam europeforvisitors.com
If you're stuck at Schiphol Airport for more than a few hours, take the train into the city.

The Amsterdam Dungeon europeforvisitors.com
History and horror go hand in hand at Amsterdam's creepiest tourist attraction, which is built over a medieval graveyard.

ARTTRA, cultural art agency
If you're traveling with a group, the non-profit ARTTRA organization can arrange customized pedestrian, boat, or bus tours to museums and private collections.

Guidor - Netherlands Guide Organization
Book a professional travel guide online, or take a virtual tour of Amsterdam and five other Dutch regions. (The latter requires the QuickTime plug-in or a Java-enabled browser.)

Lovers Amsterdam Canal Cruises
Rederij Lovers offers a variety of boat trips--among them, sightseeing tours, a circular museum boat route that allows stopovers, an Artis Zoo express boat, and evening cruises with dinner or wine and cheese.

Doubledutch Events
Carla de Boode and Bianca Oude Luttikhuis offer tours in Dutch and English, including a "Cannabis Information Tour" and a "Filmscene Spots Tour" for fans of Oceans Twelve, Diamonds are Forever, etc.

Comfort Tours
Ingrid van Bijnen offers private half- and full-day tours of Holland, using minivans that hold up to six passengers.

Urban Home & Garden Tours
From mid-April through mid-October, UHGT offers scheduled tours of Amsterdam canal houses and gardens, with a coffee buffet along the way. (Private tours are available year-round.)

Vermeer Art Tours
Dr. Kees Kaldenbach, an art historian who specializes in Vermeer, offers 2˝-hour tours that combine a lecture at his home with a guided tour through the Vermeer collection at the Rijksmuseum. Dr. Kaldenbach can also guide you through the Mauritshuis Museum in The Hague.

Bicycle tours and itineraries

Amsterdam Cycle Routes
Follow these 10 routes through Amsterdam and its surroundings--but first, read the tips on what kind of cycle to rent.

Sightseeing Tour by Bicycle
Use the interactive map to preview a 2.5-hour cycle tour of the "monumental mansions" in central Amsterdam. From Amsterdam Heritage (see above).

Mike's Bike Tours
Two young men--one from Canada, the other from the U.S.--offer daily group or private tours by bicycle, along with half- or full-day bike rentals. Tours include the use of a bicycle and, if necessary, rain gear.

Related articles on day trips

Alkmaar Cheese Market europeforvisitors.com
Our article has details on how to reach this popular tourist attraction, along with a collection of Web links for Alkmaar.

Delft europeforvisitors.com
Even if you're indifferent to dinnerware, you'll have a royal time in Delft.

Keukenhof Gardens europeforvisitors.com
The world's largest flower garden has more than 6,000,000 bulbs, including 1,000 varieties of tulips alone.

Floriade europeforvisitors.com
Holland's once-in-a-decade World's Fair of horticulture took place in 2002, but it's never too early to start planning your 2012 visit.

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