Visitor center De Wieden
Farmhouse nature centre with a floating-land boardwalk, whisper-boat trips and otter marshes.
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This guide to the De Wieden visitor centre near Giethoorn follows Johann Prescher, a ranger for Natuurmonumenten, on an April afternoon in twenty eighteen, when he came across a fish trap in the reserve that should not have been there. It reaches back to the otter's disappearance from the Netherlands and the zoo animals released into these marshes to bring it back. Best heard on the boardwalk behind the farmhouse, looking down into the water between the reeds.
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