Amstelveen Cheery Blossom Festival

Amstelveen Cheery Blossom Festival
10 April 2016


Every year in Amsterdamse Bos (Amsterdam Forest), 400 Japanese cherry trees blossom. And every year, Japanese expats from Amsterdam area celebrate the coming of spring in this area. The celebration was on 09 April 2016. But since we only wanted to enjoy the scenery, we decided to come on the next day.

From Den Haag, we took train to Schiphol, then from there, we took bus no 300 and stop at the second stop. Then we changed to bus 149 and stopped just in front of the forest entrance. From there, we just need to walk 10 minutes to the cherry blossom spot. Amsterdam Bos is a very large forest, there were some entrances, so we made sure we took the short way to the cherry blossom area.

 

Maybe because it was Sunday, there were a lot of people in the park. Some were busy taking picture, some just lying under the tree, some brought their picnic equipment. And children were busy playing. Although it was crowded, but still we can enjoy the scenery, it was beautiful. The flowers made a pink white canopy. It felt that we standing under white clouds.

 

From there, we walked around a bit in the forest. Then we backed to Den Haag, and tried Indonesian resto, Seleraku for our dinner. We had noodles as it was their speciality.