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The Zwin Nature Reserve
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Hans 🌄 🌻🚐🙋♂️🚴🚶➡️
January 12, 2024
Mountain biking
The Zwin, whether it is Belgian or Dutch, does not matter, it is a beautiful nature reserve.
The Zwin is a slufter: a beach plain behind the dunes that is in open connection with the sea. Directly behind the gully mouth lies a sandy beach, further inward lie dunes and salt marshes. Behind the row of dunes lie two small polders, the Kievittepolder and the Oudelandsepolder.
The Zwin is a slufter: a beach plain behind the dunes that is in open connection with the sea. Directly behind the gully mouth lies a sandy beach, further inward lie dunes and salt marshes. Behind the row of dunes lie two small polders, the Kievittepolder and the Oudelandsepolder.
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Uwek13
September 29, 2022
Cycling
Great nature reserve, wonderful to admire, a trip here is highly recommended
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JP
June 23, 2024
Hiking
In the 13th and 14th centuries, this sea arm - ’t Zwyn - was an important waterway to Bruges. This waterway was created after the sea had penetrated the land around the beginning of the Christian era. The cities of Bruges, Damme and Sluis were located on the Zwin and became flourishing trading centres. But the channel became increasingly shallow and eventually unnavigable. That is why the Zwin was later largely poldered. Nature then took over here.
Source: hetzeeuwselandschap.nl/natuurgebieden/het-zwin
Source: hetzeeuwselandschap.nl/natuurgebieden/het-zwin
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