Take a private half day tour to visit Volendam and Marken. The tour begins with a hotel pickup in Amsterdam and your day will take you to the countryside.

Seeing the polders and little canals just outside of Amsterdam, you will feel that you're truly in Holland. A polder is a low-lying tract of land enclosed by embankments known as dikes.

Volendam and Marken are famous fishing villages on the coast of IJselmeer which was formerly called Zuiderzee. Volendam has a lot of history as a fishing village and today is a charming tourist destination where many residents still wear the traditional Dutch clothing. Marken is an island, which today is connected to the North Holland mainland by a causeway. Also, Marken is a well-known for its characteristic wooden houses.

Also during this tour, you will visit a cheese farm where cheese is still made the traditional way.

The four hour tour is available daily, so please contact us to arrange this Volendam and Marken Private tour from Amsterdam.