Sand Dunes and Heath Land
De Hoge Veluwe is a wonderful national park in central Holland that encompasses more than 5000 hectacres of woodlands, moorland, grasslands, and sand drifts. Hoge Veluwe means literally high badlands (high is relative for Holland). The visitor's center provides a great introduction to the land, ecology, flora and fauna of the park. They had interactive displays, personal stories of local people, and audiovisual presentations on the forest (complete with tree trunks), sand, and heath. They had many activities geared toward kids, including a sand table for making animal prints and lots of secret finds (animals in tree holes) and little videos.
The Museonder is an unusual underground museum that shows what has lived and still lives beneath the earth's surface. Here we saw underground water flows, soil cross-sections, models of mites and bugs 1000x normal size (or bigger), and the complete root system of a 135-year-old beech tree (80 m2). We even got to see a ehistoric mammoth jaw, tooth and shoulder blade. The bones were under a glass floor. Miles wouldn't step on the glass. It was pretty funny watching him try to walk around those windows.
Forest (Bos)
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