The most famous place here in Amsterdam is the Keukonhof; which is the place where when it is season, it will be full of colourful tulips! Unfortunately, when we went there, it was not in season. Bummer right?
The next interesting place in Amsterdam is of course, the Red Light District. Please remember to NEVER take pictures or videos of those *ehem* exotic people behind the glass. I’ve heard so many rumours about what could happen if you were caught taking pictures or videos; they’ll call the cops or they would take your camera and smash it and etc. When we were there, some smart ass guy decided to take picture of them using his handphone, and true to the story, the girl behind the glass actually opened up the door and called, or more like yelled out for him to come to her. I guess he’s on the lucky side as the girl just request him to delete the picture.
Amsterdam is also commonly known for their windmill; hence it is best to go Zaanse Schans. Zaanse Schans is located at the outskirt of Amsterdam, and there you can see some sort of village with few huge windmills. There, you can also learn how to make clog; they no longer do it traditionally, there are machines for that. We don’t walk around much there; therefore I’m not too sure if we can actually go inside the windmill. Personally, I don’t really fancy being there but if you have time to kill while in Amsterdam, you could definitely go there.
Iamsterdam is one of the famous and popular icons in Amsterdam. They have two of that in Amsterdam; one is at the airport and another one is at Museumplein. It is better for you to take pictures at both the places, because sometimes the one in Musemplein tends to be full with people also trying to take pictures with it. We were quite lucky as we arrived early in the morning hence we had time to take pictures at the airport and when we went at night at the Museumplein, there was not much people around so we can take nice photos of it, perhaps there would be more people in the afternoon and evening.
Although when we went there, it was not tulip season, however in Amsterdam itself, true flower lovers can actually go to their flower market or Bloemenmarkt. You have lots of stalls there; selling more or less the same thing but omg the flowers are gorgeous! I’d definitely buy some if it weren’t for my party pooper husband who said there’s no point in buying them. They are also selling flower seeds; am so tempted to buy those tulip seeds but I doubt it’ll even grow here. Hehe.
Other places includes the Royal Plaza, Madame Tussauds museum (we didn’t go in here, it was kind of expensive and there’s a long que for it) and Albert Cuyp market; which we didn’t manage to go since the area was being renovated at that time.
Personally if I were given the option to come here again, I would definitely say no, that is unless it is tulips season!
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