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Leiden & Lisse: "Technicolor Oz"
  by jasondobbs1  
written: 12 April 2001
last time there: April 2000
I was lucky enough to hit Leiden it the perfect time of year: late April. The Netherlands are highly acclaimed as the world's leading tulip producer, and while Leiden isn't directly a major tulip-growing city, it is a perfect hub to head to places that are, all within a short drive or busride (20minutes). I went to Lisse, just outside Ledien, and had no idea what to expect. As I walked through the gardens, I felt I had accidentally landed in some dort of technicolor Oz. Every color imaginable -and then some that just simply were not- overloaded the senses. Fields of bright, flourescent colors lead as far as the eye could see, with rows of bright oranges and yellows and pinks and reds and violents cresting over the horizon, as a Dutch farmer plowed his field in the distance. So much tourism in Holland is concentrated in Amsterdam, which is a great city, full of the appealing Dutch culture, although the small country offers so much more as well. The tulips are not alone in a pool of offerings in the Dutch countryside. National forests and traditional windmilled landscapes also await your explorations.
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