Experience a night on the Wadden Sea!
Beaching, mudflat hiking & spending the night on the Wadden Sea – A weekend you will never forget!
- Beach the ship and walk on the seabed
- Spend the night in the silence and darkness of the Wadden Sea
- Escape the hustle and bustle of everyday life and relax in nature
- A special adventure for friends, family or colleagues
- A unique bucketlist-experience in the most beautiful nature reserve in the Netherlands
Are you looking for a unique outing with family, friends or colleagues, for example to celebrate something or just to experience something special together? You don't have to travel far for an unforgettable bucket list experience. The best adventure is closer to home than you think!
On this page we introduce you to the most beautiful experiences you can have on the Wadden Sea: running aground, mudflat hiking and a night at anchor on the Wadden Sea! This is the ultimate weekend for groups who want to experience something special together, in the middle of the most beautiful nature reserve ofthe Netherlands: the UNESCO World Heritage Wadden Sea.
What does the weekend look like?
Friday evening at 8:00 PM you will embark on board our one traditional flat-bottomed ship in the port of Harlingen. The first evening you will spend relaxing in the harbor, where you can already enjoy the atmosphere and the view over the water.
On Saturday morning we set course for the Wadden Sea. We sail to a place where we run the ship aground. We sail the ship aground on a sandbank and slowly the water drops and the bottom of the sea appears. This is the moment when the magic begins: you step off the ship and walk over the seabed. As you walk over the sandbanks you experience the sounds of foraging birds and spouting lugworms. You see shrimps, crabs and small flatfish. There are cockles, mussels and oysters that you can pick up. On some parts of the Wadden Sea there are as many as 100 cockles per square meter. Discover why the Wadden Sea is so special that it has become a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Here time slows down and you can completely come to yourself.
After the mudflat walk, the ship remains at anchor, in the middle of the Wadden Sea. Here, far from civilization, you experience the night as you hardly experience it anywhere else in the Netherlands: in real darkness. The Wadden area is one of the few places where it really gets dark. The starry sky is breathtaking – the Milky Way, countless stars and even planets such as Jupiter, Mars and Saturn are visible here. A night on the Wadden Sea is an experience you won't soon forget. If the tide and conditions are favourable, the ship can remain at anchor on the sandbank and the ship will be dry again in the morning, and you will wake up on a dried-up Wadden Sea.
On Sunday we will sail quietly back to Harlingen. Around 5 p.m. the weekend is over and you will disembark with a head full of new memories and a feeling of deep relaxation.
Information and prices
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