Why this ride
A 139 km round trip from Nordholz - roughly 2 h 24 in the saddle. On the way it passes National Park Wadden Sea Niedersachsen, Wadden Sea and back through National Park Wadden Sea Niedersachsen.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
National Park Wadden Sea Niedersachsen and Wadden Sea
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 139 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 2 h 24
- 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 Wadden Sea.
3. Wadden Sea
Where the Weser river widens into the North Sea at Bremerhaven, the land and water merge into one of the strangest landscapes in Europe. The Wadden Sea, a shallow stretch of sand and mud flats running from the Netherlands past Germany to Denmark, is the largest unbroken system of tidal flats in the world, and UNESCO protects it as a World Heritage Site. Twice a day the sea retreats, leaving a gleaming plain that birds, seals and worms use as a feeding ground, and twice a day it comes back, quickly and quietly.
Read the complete Wadden Sea write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 70 km into the recorded legs you reach Wadden Sea. Next is back through National Park Wadden Sea Niedersachsen.
4. 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, late in the day.
5. 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 at National Park Wadden Sea Niedersachsen. That is the ride.
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 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
National Park Wadden Sea Niedersachsen to Wadden Sea
National Park Wadden Sea Niedersachsen → Wadden Sea is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Wadden Sea to back through National Park Wadden Sea Niedersachsen
Wadden Sea → back through National Park Wadden Sea Niedersachsen is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
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 rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.