The Low Countries: Amsterdam to Bruges
Amsterdam's canal rings give way to Antwerp's fashion-and-diamond streets, Ghent's quieter medieval core and Bruges's postcard canals — a compact, easy trip through the Low Countries at a pace where nothing ever feels far away.
The route
Amsterdam → Antwerp → Ghent → Bruges
The journey
🇳🇱 Amsterdam
Netherlands · Day 1–3 · 3 nights
The route opens here as a starting gateway rather than a finale — canals, museums, and cyclists everywhere — before the trip turns south into Belgium's own cluster of historic cities.
- Anne Frank House
- Royal Palace
🇧🇪 Antwerp
Belgium · Day 4–6 · 3 nights
South across the border to Belgium's fashion and diamond capital — a bigger, brasher city than what follows, with a cathedral, a busy port, and an old town built on trade money.
- Het Steen
- Museum aan de Stroom (MAS)
🇧🇪 Ghent
Belgium · Day 7–8 · 2 nights
A short train ride to a city that gets a fraction of Bruges's tourists despite an equally striking medieval core — the route's own quieter, more local stop, over almost as soon as it starts.
- Het Gravensteen
- Sint-Baafskathedraal
🇧🇪 Bruges
Belgium · Day 9–11 · 3 nights
The route closes in Belgium's best-preserved medieval city — canals, cobbled squares, gabled guildhalls — a compact, walkable finale that rewards exactly the kind of unhurried wandering this whole trip has been building toward.
- Basilica of the Holy Blood (Heilige Bloed Basiliek)
- Onze Lieve Vrouwkerk
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