Travel to Keukenhof
Keukenhof> Brussels weather is similar to London. This sun, this rain. Just as there is nothing to jump for joy when you see the sun in the morning, there is no point in sitting down when you see the rain. Even the weather forecast sometimes doesn’t match.
I wanted to reassure Shanta-Rumu and Tarana-Eamon from London. We were talking, in my flat in Brussels, at the breakfast table. They have only come for a two-day visit. Already one day soil. Since this morning, ‘the clouds inside the bag of sadness.’ Even with my optimistic words, the clouds did not move from their faces. The song appeared on YouTube by Srikanth Acharya and got some work done. I saw the clouds of the face and the sky pass together.
Plan Keukenhof
Today’s plan is Keukenhof. This huge flower garden is in the city of Lisse, near Amsterdam. Directly from Brussels to Schiphol International Airport by public transport. It will take a couple of hours. Bus number 361 from there. Another 30 minutes. There is also a special shuttle from the airport during the flower season. Keukenhof, the tulip paradise, is only open for eight weeks between March and May of the year. The rest of the time is flower cultivation, ancillary work and preparation for the fair. That’s why so much thought about the weather. If the sun is not shining, will it be possible to talk with the flowers?
Purpose of travel
Anuj Shanta brought her 9-year-old daughter Ifrit and newborn Afrad along with her husband. With Agrajapratim Emon Bhai’s family. Even in the seven seater car there was no space left. The car runs straight north from Brussels. Rumui is driving. The car had GPS. Yet Eamon Bhai in the role of live GPS sitting next to him. With Ifrit, I have already accumulated. And the English sounded like Scottish, Irish and African accents. Sometimes everyone was laughing. Passed Antwerp within an hour. Antwerp is the largest port in Belgium and the 2nd largest in whole Europe. After just one more hour, I reached the port of Rotterdam. Rotterdam is the largest port in Europe. A little further north is Lisse, also Keukenhof.
Henshel Bagicha
The Dutch word Keukenhof means ‘Hensel Garden’. Its main attraction is this pre-summer floral display. It’s actually a tulip paradise. This garden is on an area of eighty nine acres. Every year at least seventy million tulips bloom at this time. As we pass the Hague, we see flowery gardens on both sides of the road. With a wide area. Tulips in the horizon The tulipmania of the Dutch is not new, however. Not many people know that the original habitat of the tulip was in the Himalayan region. In the Tian Shan mountain area. From there, this flower reached the Netherlands via Türkiye in the 16th century. Turkish sultans used to have tulip parties in their gardens in the spring. In 1560, the first tulips were seen in Belgium in Antwerp and Mechelen. And in 1593 in the botanical garden of Leiden.
This journey has become a history. We have arrived. It is almost two o’clock. The sun is peeking through the clouds. It took another twenty minutes to cross the parking lot and reach the front of the pylon. I bought the ticket and got the entry right away. The volunteers handed out a map of the garden. Map and brochure work then? Wherever you look, flowers and flowers. As if I came to the sea of flowers. Thousands of varieties, thousands of varieties. There are about two thousand species of tulips alone. Continuous research is going on. At least a hundred new species are added to the garden every year.
For about 30 minutes, the camera clicked and clicked, so to speak. Who reminded me that the garden is 32 hectares. And there are 70 lakhs of flowers. If you stand in one place for so long, it will take a week to see the whole garden. Slowly moving towards the north. There are rows of tulip gardens on both sides of the road. Some are bright red, some are orange, some are garden purple, turquoise, maroon, yellow or white tulips. Carpets of various prints are laid on the side of the road. At times, it seemed that the tiny blocks of tulips in a vast sea were colorful dinghies – with lights, masts and sails – all decorated in unique colors. An alluring arrangement of colours-smells-rhythms. This is like a hypnotic formula that makes the mind crave at the moment! Or is this a magic trick?
The Kingdom of Tulips
Ah tulips. This is the flower, the price of which once shook the whole world. It is for a limited time though. The situation reached such a point that in March 1637 a single tulip with its root was being sold for about 10 times the official salary of a skilled craftsman. No reader, not printing ink. A tulip is being talked about. However, there is no reliable or researchable evidence for this information. The details of these events are found in Charles Mackay’s ‘Extraordinary Popular Hoaxes or Madnesses’. At one point the situation was like this, someone wanted to give 12 acres of land for a Semper Augustus tulip. Seeing this, investment in this sector increases with high interest. And then the real game begins – like a flea market. Within a few days, the price returned to normal. Thousands of tulip growers with high interest loans had to lose everything.
The story of ‘Henshel Bagicha’ is also interesting. Keukenhof began as a fruit and vegetable garden to supply the nearby Telingen fortress. The Bavarian countess Jacqueline Jacqueline Fan Byren was the original founder, in the fifteenth century. And today Keukenhof is the most interesting flower garden in the world, whether in the Netherlands or Europe.
It is not right to neglect the aspect of trade by just listening to the bully of looks-juice-smell. Keukenhof can be called the capital of the global trade in flowers and floral products of the Netherlands. Not only visitors, countless pilgrims come here from all over the world, with various forms. The Netherlands earns about 20 billion dollars from flower exports alone. There are various types of income from visitors and incidentals. As I pass the restaurant after hours of floral relish, Nosandryo becomes unsettled. Everyone remembered that it was almost lunch time. Food is available.
Delicious food
The dining room is less crowded. By that time we are quite tired. I ate sandwiches, ice cream and coffee with a lot of time. Next to the food court are several souvenir shops and pavilions. These pavilions are theme specific. The first one I saw was Wedding Flowers. Flowers arranged in heart shape. many colors But white and pink are more. This part has been named Wilhelmina.
Tulip Lake
Beautiful lake in front. A few boats also ply the calm waters of the lake. On both sides, as usual, a collection of flowers. arranged Like a picture. Arranged in some places, as if an abstract work of art has been painted with flowers. Beyond the lake, the Juliana Pavilion continues along the fence. There is an exhibition titled ‘History of Tulip’.
Orange Nassau and Willem Alexander Pavilion
The lake moves from west to east. Along the middle are two huge pavilions on either side – Orange Nassau and Willem Alexander. Fresh flower exhibition is also going on here. Both pavilions have transparent glass ceilings. There is no lack of light. But air-conditioned. I also saw flower tubs and fresh flowers being sold. Hibiscus exhibition at Willem Alexander. Collection of jaba and related flowers is here. I never imagined that there are so many types of jaba flowers.
Keukenhof Park
Adults are not tired of seeing and tasting flowers. But the little ones are a little bit tired by then. We divided into two groups. Took a group of kids to the maze, playground, Miffy house and the zoo. Another group goes around watching the exhibit. Just opposite the Juliana Pavilion in the Keukenhof Park is the Brietris Orchid Exhibition. Old style wooden windmill next door. It is also kept for display.
Traditional Dutch windmills
Windmill has become another name for Dutch tradition. Windmills were used to extract the energy of the wind and produce water, paper, tree trunks, etc. It was a very popular technology. There are still thousands of windmills scattered throughout the Netherlands. But the technology changed after the industrial revolution. Wind turbines have replaced windmills. Everyone climbed the ladder to the top of the windmill. From there a bird’s eye view of the entire Keukenhof garden was available. From above I see the most interesting Gulistan in the world.
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