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A private Giethoorn day trip adding real Batavia Land, home of a genuine 17th-century ship replica.
A private tour for your group only, real stops at genuine Giethoorn and Batavia Land's real 17th-century ship replica.
This is a private tour for your group only. Real stops include genuine Giethoorn, the 'Dutch Venice,' plus Batavia Land's genuine full-scale 17th-century ship replica.
A popular starting point — every Voyzo itinerary is fully customizable, so we'll shape the order and stops around your group.
Hotel pickup in Amsterdam.
Real car-free canal village.
Genuine Batavia Land landmark.
8-9 hours, just your group.
Back to your hotel, home, or the airport — whenever your day wraps up.
A private tour for your group only, real stops at genuine Giethoorn and Batavia Land's real 17th-century ship replica. This is a private tour for your group only. Real stops include genuine Giethoorn, the 'Dutch Venice,' plus Batavia Land's genuine full-scale 17th-century ship replica.
The ship at the center of this tour has a genuinely dramatic real history. The original Batavia was completed in 1628 as a flagship of the Dutch East India Company (VOC), one of the largest and best-armed merchant ships of its day. It never completed its maiden voyage: in June 1629 it wrecked on a reef in the Houtman Abrolhos islands off the coast of Western Australia, and the disaster that followed — a mutiny among the survivors and a brutal massacre on the islands — became one of the most notorious episodes in Dutch maritime history.
The full-scale replica you'll see at Batavia Land was not built quickly. Shipwright Willem Vos led the project over ten years, from 1985 to 1995, using the same traditional 17th-century tools and techniques the original builders would have known, and the project doubled as a hands-on training ground for young people learning historic shipbuilding skills that had nearly died out. Queen Beatrix herself christened the finished ship on April 7, 1995, and it has been a working museum vessel ever since, with more than five million visitors having stepped aboard over the years.
Pairing this with Giethoorn gives the day a real contrast: one stop built around a single, meticulously reconstructed 17th-century ship, the other a village whose entire layout — canals instead of roads — grew organically out of centuries of peat digging that began even earlier, in the 1200s.
Every Voyzo tour is a starting point — tell us what you have in mind and we'll build it.
