A Plant Lover's Travel Guide: Keukenhof flower park

A Guide for the fellow plant lovers featuring travel destinations around the world. Part 2. Keukenhof flower park.
This is an overview of our trip to Netherlands in April 2019.

Keukenhof is a place to visit to discover the Dutch tulips heaven, it opens to the public only from the end of March, until beginning of May. Park is located not far from Amsterdam, so there are both options to get there by car and by public bus.

TIP: Purchase tickets ahead of time online. Come early, before 10:30 will be great. Bring drinking water. There will be free maps right after the entrance.

Right after the Main entrance we took a left turn and had a long walk through the tulip plantations. Each has an indicator of the name, that is always very helpful to identify the flowers after the trip.

Multicolored tulips in Keukenhof flower park
White tulips in Keukenhof flower park
Pink tulips in Keukenhof flower park
Mystic van Eijk tulips in Keukenhof flower park
Spring green tulips in Keukenhof flower park

Taking the walk towards the lake, there is an impressive panorama of the hills, filled with colorful blooms.

Blooming tulips at Keukenhof flower park - landscape view

There are couple of pavilions/ flower shows you can enter and have a look around, my favorite was Orchids pavilion.

Orchids pavilion at Keukenhof flower park
Orchids pavilion at Keukenhof flower park

They had a big selection shown there, with couple of not so common species that I was lucky to discover for the first time, like this green Lady Slipper orchid.

Green Lady Slipper Orchid
Tulips at Keukenhof flower park
Flowering tulips at Keukenhof flower park

Mysterious Parrot tulip was one of my favorite to spot in the Park.

Blooming parrot tulips at Keukenhof flower park
Dutch king tulips at Keukenhof flower park
Dutch king tulips at Keukenhof flower park

If you love flowers and enjoy observing them - you will be amazed by Keukenhof park, for sure.

© All images were shot in April 2019 by Anna. Hope you enjoyed!