Why this ride
376 km from Nordholz to Nordholz, about 6 h 29 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.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
National Park Wadden Sea Niedersachsen and Key Planning Decision
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 376 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 6 h 29
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
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: planning record, not independently verified geometry.
Reading history stays on this device. My road watch requires a separate selection; opening it does not subscribe this ride.
Distances and riding times are planning figures. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. National Park Wadden Sea Niedersachsen
Here the Wadden Sea comes right up against the dyke. This is the coast of the Wurster Nordseeküste, between the Weser and Elbe estuaries, a country of low sea walls, drained farmland and wide skies, and the mudflats outside the dyke are part of the Lower Saxony Wadden Sea National Park. Together with the Dutch and Danish parts of the Wadden Sea, the area is a UNESCO World Heritage site, valued above all for the sheer scale of the tidal flats and the millions of birds that pass through on migration. When the tide goes out, it goes a very long way.
Read the complete National Park Wadden Sea Niedersachsen write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
National Park Wadden Sea Niedersachsen is where the day begins. Next is National Park Wadden Sea Niedersachsen.
2. 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.
Read the complete National Park Wadden Sea Niedersachsen write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
National Park Wadden Sea Niedersachsen comes up about 40 km into the recorded legs. Next is National Park Wadden Sea Niedersachsen.
3. 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.
Read the complete National Park Wadden Sea Niedersachsen write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 124 km into the recorded legs you reach National Park Wadden Sea Niedersachsen. Next is Key Planning Decision.
4. 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.
Read the complete Key Planning Decision write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Key Planning Decision, about halfway. Next is back through National Park Wadden Sea Niedersachsen.
5. back through National Park Wadden Sea Niedersachsen
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete National Park Wadden Sea Niedersachsen write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through National Park Wadden Sea Niedersachsen sits at 251 km, about halfway. Next is back through National Park Wadden Sea Niedersachsen.
6. back through National Park Wadden Sea Niedersachsen
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete National Park Wadden Sea Niedersachsen write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through National Park Wadden Sea Niedersachsen comes up about 337 km into the recorded legs.
7. National Park Wadden Sea Niedersachsen
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete National Park Wadden Sea Niedersachsen write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
National Park Wadden Sea Niedersachsen closes the day.
Leg by leg
National Park Wadden Sea Niedersachsen to National Park Wadden Sea Niedersachsen
National Park Wadden Sea Niedersachsen → National Park Wadden Sea Niedersachsen is 84 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
National Park Wadden Sea Niedersachsen to Key Planning Decision
National Park Wadden Sea Niedersachsen → Key Planning Decision is 65 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Key Planning Decision to back through National Park Wadden Sea Niedersachsen
Key Planning Decision → back through National Park Wadden Sea Niedersachsen is 65 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through National Park Wadden Sea Niedersachsen to back through National Park Wadden Sea Niedersachsen
back through National Park Wadden Sea Niedersachsen → back through National Park Wadden Sea Niedersachsen is 83 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through National Park Wadden Sea Niedersachsen to National Park Wadden Sea Niedersachsen
back through National Park Wadden Sea Niedersachsen → National Park Wadden Sea Niedersachsen is 40 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.