CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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From Emden it runs 548 km to Emden; allow about 6 h of riding. The stops in between: Key Planning Decision, National Park Wadden Sea Niedersachsen, back through National Park Wadden Sea Niedersachsen and back through Key Planning Decision. It crosses from Germany into Netherlands - carry ID and check the toll rules. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
Where the Ems river meets the sea near Emden, the land runs out of ideas. East Frisia is flat and wide, laced with dykes, drainage ditches and wind turbines, and the horizon is a ruler line drawn under a very large sky. The label here is an administrative one, a planning decision, so it points to no single monument. What it describes is the landscape around the Dollart bay and the Wadden Sea shore west of Emden, where the sea has repeatedly eaten into the land and been pushed back by people with spades and later with machines.
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Key Planning Decision is where the day begins. Next is Key Planning Decision.
The name on the map is bureaucratic, but the place is anything but. Key Planning Decision is a translation of the Dutch legal designation used to protect the Wadden Sea, and the spot here sits on the coast near Delfzijl, at the eastern edge of the province of Groningen, where the Dutch Wadden meets the estuary of the Ems. The Wadden Sea is the largest unbroken system of tidal flats in the world, stretching along the coasts of the Netherlands, Germany and Denmark, and it was listed by UNESCO in 2009.
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Key Planning Decision comes up about 29 km into the recorded legs. Next is National Park Wadden Sea Niedersachsen.
Behind the dyke at Dornumersiel the land is flatter than a billiard table and nearly as green, and on the other side the sea comes and goes twice a day across a vast expanse of sand and mud. This is the Wadden Sea, the largest system of intertidal flats in the world, stretching along the coasts of the Netherlands, Germany and Denmark. The Lower Saxony section is a national park and part of a World Heritage site, and at low tide you can walk out across the seabed towards the East Frisian islands, ideally with a guide who knows the channels and the tides.
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about 159 km into the recorded legs you reach National Park Wadden Sea Niedersachsen.
At low tide, the sea simply leaves. Twice a day the North Sea withdraws from the Wadden Sea, exposing vast flats of mud and sand, channels and banks, where birds feed by the hundreds of thousands and seals haul out to rest. The Lower Saxony Wadden Sea National Park protects this coast, and together with the Dutch and Danish parts it forms the Wadden Sea World Heritage Site, inscribed in 2009.
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National Park Wadden Sea Niedersachsen, about halfway. Next is back through National Park Wadden Sea Niedersachsen.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete National Park Wadden Sea Niedersachsen write-up.
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back through National Park Wadden Sea Niedersachsen sits at 232 km, about halfway. Next is back through Key Planning Decision.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Key Planning Decision write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Key Planning Decision comes up about 515 km into the recorded legs.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Key Planning Decision write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Key Planning Decision closes the day.
Key Planning Decision → Key Planning Decision is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Key Planning Decision → National Park Wadden Sea Niedersachsen is 130 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
National Park Wadden Sea Niedersachsen → National Park Wadden Sea Niedersachsen is 114 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
National Park Wadden Sea Niedersachsen → back through National Park Wadden Sea Niedersachsen is 114 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through National Park Wadden Sea Niedersachsen → back through Key Planning Decision is 128 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Key Planning Decision → Key Planning Decision is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.