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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427 km from Butjadingen to Butjadingen, about 6 h 47 of riding. On the way it passes National Park Wadden Sea Niedersachsen, Key Planning Decision and back through National Park Wadden Sea Niedersachsen. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
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 is where the day begins. 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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National Park Wadden Sea Niedersachsen comes up about 114 km into the recorded legs. Next is Key Planning Decision.
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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about 212 km into the recorded legs you reach Key Planning Decision. Next is back through National Park Wadden Sea Niedersachsen.
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back through National Park Wadden Sea Niedersachsen, late in the day.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete National Park Wadden Sea Niedersachsen write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at National Park Wadden Sea Niedersachsen. That is the ride.
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 → Key Planning Decision is 98 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Key Planning Decision → back through National Park Wadden Sea Niedersachsen is 102 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through 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.