Budget Amsterdam Trip Itinerary - 5 Days 4 Nights - Spring season

Amsterdam as a beautiful place with many canals, bridges, waterways and thousands of 17th century mansions which is build side by side. The place is very tourist friendly with paved bicycle track, boat trip in the canals and multi-cultural community. The place also famous for its delicacy such as herring, stroopwafels and cheese. If you go further, you can find traditional windmill and tulips garden which is iconic to Netherlands. Amsterdam is an open city which tolerates sex clubs and dope smoking. Do come here if you have chance to savour the beauty of this Dutch capital.




Beautiful tulips in Keukenhof. Come here from Mar-May each year if you don't want to miss viewing this tulip garden.

Wondering if you know what type of chocolate is this in Albert Cuyp market. Just look don't touch!

Amsterdam hype about marijuana. From marijuana drinks, cakes and cookies.

Do sample their cheese, its delicious.

Windmill at Zaanse Schans.

Day	Morning	Afternoon	Evening	Night
Day 1 (Tue)		1. Travel from Paris to Amsterdam via Thalys fast train. 2. Check in at Trianon Hotel @ Museumplein 3. Walking around Dam Square and scenic selfie at Amsterdam canals.	1. Purchased some grocery at Albert Heijn store. You can get quite a good deal from Albert Heijn and can get Dutch delicacies such as Stroopwafels here.	1. Traditional Dutch meal dinner at Haesje Claes
Day 2 (Wed)	1. Breakfast at Trianon Hotel. 2. Visiting Keukenhof the largest flower garden in the world. The garden is located at Lisse. You may purchase the combo ticket online (bus + adult entrance ticket).	1. Continuation of Keukenhof visit.	1. Visited the Roman Catholic church of De Krijtberg Kerk.	1. Traditional Dutch dinner at Oud Holland located opposite Dam Square.
Day 3 (Thur)	1. Breakfast at Trianon Hotel 2. Following SANDEMANs NEW Europe Amsterdam Free walking tour. This is a tip based 3 hours walking tour which will covers Dam Square surrounding.	1. Visiting windmill in Zaanse Schans	1. Following SANDERMANs NEW Europe Red Light District Amsterdam tour. This is a two hours walking tour around red light district of Amsterdam.	1. Steak dinner at Cocina Argentina (Mas Y Mas) near Amsterdam Chinatown
Day 4 (Fri)	1. Visit flora Holland flower market. This is the world largest flower auction centre located in Aalsmeer. Come early to watch the flower auction process.	1. Visiting Albert Cuyp Market. This is Amsterdam largest open air market. Do try a variety of cheese samples and delicious herring. 2. Having Kroketten at Cafe Hoppe	1. Orange Day parade	1. Dinner at Asian Kitchen
Day 5 (Sat)	1. Van Gogh museum	1. Amsterdam river cruise	1. Dutch snack bitterballen at Het Gasthuys	1. Flight going back home Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur on KLM - Royal Dutch Airlines

Keukenhof @ Lisse, Holland

Let me post this blog entry first as Keukenhof for 2012 season is going to end on 21st May 2012. Each year, this park only open for two months which starts from 21st March to 20th May. This is also one of my backpack tour highlights to Europe. Keukenhof is currently the world largest flower garden with almost 7 million flower bulbs. Initially I thought I just need 2-3 hours for the flower garden but it turns out that I spent almost 6 hours there. I am quite lucky as the weather on that day is sunny and good. For the previous few days, it was raining in Amsterdam.

The park is huge and besides flower, there is a small interesting farm in there. The farm act like a children playground to learn about animals. Every year, the flower arrangement is based on a country' theme. And this year Poland was chosen.

Keukenhof is not in Amsterdam. You will need to take bus number 58 from Schiphol airport. The journey by bus takes around 45 minutes. In order to save cost and time, I would recommend that you buy the combo ticket online at 21 Euro per person. The combo ticket includes the entrance fee and return bus to Keukenhof and back to Schiphol airport.


Keukenhof farm shot from bus.

Main entrance to Keukenhof.

Greeted by tulips at the entrance.

Yellow, orange & red.

My timing was good. The flower was blooming.

This is known as Marconi.

Its impressive.

So many tulips and all different colours.

Red and purple.

Nice arrangement.

The flower towards the white horse rider statue.

Smell good.

Many old folk visitors.

Another angle.

So much flowers.

The bottom purple is lavender. The smell is so good.

Directly on top the flowers.

Signboard at the main intersection.

Tulip exhibition.

White tulips.

Windmill of Keukenhof.

Another impressive display.

So pretty.

Lovely path.

Nicely arranged trees.

Look familiar? Maybe its on your computer desktop.

Newly wed couple should just walk here.

Kids here just like the piglet.

Don't come near. This is not your food :-)

My best angle shot :-)

Endless discovery of flower arrangement.

Another nice view.

Can't leave this place without my picture in :-) Me with the tulips.

How to go: Keukenhof is easily accessible from Schiphol airport by bus number 58. There is a bus every 15 minutes. Do reach there early in the morning as the line queue for the bus can get quite long by afternoon.