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Middelpolder Starting Point (tourist transfer point) 71 afbeelding

Routes from this starting point

Middelpolder Walk (yellow)
Unpaved path (partly) No dogs allowed
3.11km
Kalfjesroute (blue)
Unpaved path (partly)
5.06km
Middelpolderroute (purple)
Unpaved path (partly) No dogs allowed Closed during bird breeding season
7.66km

The Middelpolder is an area teeming with birds. There are many meadow birds such as lapwings, godwits, curlews, egrets and redshanks. In spring and summer you will nearly always see spoonbills and in winter there are wigeons and other ducks. Outside the breeding season you can walk through the meadows.

The wider area south of Amsterdam used to be one large low-lying bog, where peat was extracted on a large scale. The peat was laid on a narrow strip of land to dry before being transported to the city as precious fuel. The narrow strip of land at Buitenveldert was named 't Kleine Loopveld and was already on the map in 1575. Here you can walk along both the lower and higher grounds. You can see the height differences best from the Machineweg and the Bankrasweg.

  • The Ommetje Middelpolder or Middelpolder Walk (yellow) is a short walk past sports fields and the Liberal Jewish cemetery Gan Hashalom. South of the cemetery is the vast recreational area and nature reserve, which offers a lot of variety between woods and meadows or hay fields.
  • The Kalfjesroute (blue) passes the Klein Kalfje inn. There has been an inn, named after the first owner Jan Claesz Kalf, at this corner of the Amstel since 1670. The route also leads along the banks of the Amstel river and through open meadows.
  • The Middelpolderroute (purple) is a longer circular walk through the meadows. The route includes a lot of farmland paths with stiles and even a cable ferry.