Belt-Schutsloot
Reed-fringed canal village of wooden footbridges and thatched farms, once reachable only by boat.
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This guide to Belt-Schutsloot, a quiet water village near Giethoorn, is about one Friday night in August, when the Gondelvaart flower-boat parade turns a village of a few hundred into a crowd of thousands. It follows the teams who spend weeks building gondolas on floating trestles, and the village club that has kept the ritual going for more than eighty years. Best heard standing at the canal's edge, beside the water the boats travel.
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