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Gerhees 14, 3980 TESSENDERLO

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Voeren is one big monument park with more than 120 listed castles, churches, half-timbered houses, burial crosses, chapels, village pumps, etc. Two mapped out car routes of about 35 km take you along the most beautiful monuments of this region. The route is not signposted but there is a map with an information booklet. In it you will find explanations and photos of each monument.

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Farm Fun? Farm-tastic team building activities on a modern dairy farm.
With them you are at the right place for an unforgettable day with the key elements of your environment: your team, your group of friends, your family.
Motivate them, reward them and challenge them.
Farm Fun helps you to do this.

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With their help, you work out a successful program that respects the needs and the budget. A program with a high Fun-content and a motivation and creativity tickler? One that satisfies each profile, possibly combined with a seminar
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A unique setting
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Departure from the tourist office.
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Corpus: picnic spot Kattevennen

Tucked away in Kattevennen just behind the Visitor Centre you’ll find a picnic spot with a difference. Named Corpus, it was designed by nature artist Will Beckers. Visitors sit cheek by jowl in a large mown circle, cocooned by a sculpture made of corten steel and tree branches. A unique experience!
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Experience full covered wagon ride through the rural area of Peer. Open landscapes alternate with forests and fields. En route you can stop at the alpaca farm in Kaulille for a short tour with an enthusiastic Guide. A second stop is a delicious picnic with home-made products, in the Green quiet area. The order can be adjusted.
On the road the driver informs you about the magnificent surroundings, its occurrence, the fauna and the flora, ...
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Walk or cycle through Hechtel-Eksel and pass various stops where you can hit an adventurous hole.

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"PIT", art in the public space, fun for young and old.

You really do not only find art in dusty museum rooms.
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You can walk, talk, play, shout ... Even touching the works of art is allowed!
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The Molenvijver & sundial park

The Molenvijver Park in the centre of Genk was originally a swampland that was fed by the Dorpsbeek. In 1967, the Molenvijvers were converted into a city park. The authentic watermill is now a restaurant.

You have a view from the Molenvijvers Park onto the most beautiful villas in Molenstraat. Number 80 is La Maison Blanche, the artist Armand Maclot’s villa.

You’ll also find a sundial park here, with no fewer than 12 ways to tell the time.
In this park in Genk you’ll find 12 contemporary sundials. They were designed byJan De Graeve with the help of gnomonists and artists from various European countries. The project brings together scientific ingenuity, modern technology and artistic design. Discover the creativity of scientists and the reasoning of artists or ... how art and science can complement each other. Even when the sun isn’t shining, it’s certainly worth visiting the park.

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A great way to explore the best nature Peer has to offer at a saunter. Trek through open fields and colourful woodland.
Information and bookings:
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Enjoying Maasland at his best

Maasland has it all:
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the most extensive bicycle route network in Belgium,
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various attractive events and tourist activities.

You will leave with a view of the Maas.
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You can also take beautiful walks here: in the Negenoord nature reserve of approx. 200 ha.

The routes created by VESPAROUTE will show you the peace, nature and idyllic landscape that beautiful Maasland has to offer.

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Escape Room Mystery 19

An exciting escape room at a magnificent location.

Enter the ancient castle near the brewery of Ter Dolen.

Once quitly and peaceful, but recently something mysterious disturbed the peace. So many questions, so many riddles. Do you dare to take on the challenge to solve the mystery?

Mystery 19 is an escape room in which you'll have to cooperate as a team, solving riddles and trying to escape within 60 minutes.

The game is fully playable in English!
It is also accessible by everyone.
Children from ages 10 and up can perfectly play the game under supervision.
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SimFastic Racesimulators

SIMTAG is the reference of racing simulators in Europe. They offer static and moving simulators (even up to 6D) for sale, rental, training, corporate events and exhibitions. Their hydraulic pedal set is known all over the world and is used by numerous professional pilots. You can test it yourself in their training centre.
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Walking area domain Nieuwenhoven

An estate of 161 ha with rich fauna and flora, a fine educational fishing pond and a large field where dogs can run free nearby the parking lot. Kids enjoy the playground and orchard next to the cafeteria.

Do you prefer your imagination running wild? Explore the wood! Children can play in complete freedom. Enjoy the signposted walks like The ‘greenspot tour Nieuwenhoven’, organized by the regional landscape Haspengouw and Voeren.

The domain and playground are open and accessible every day.

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RECREATION DOMAIN ’T FONTEINTJE - VISITOR CENTRE DE WATERSNIP

Many people know the recreation domain ‘het Kapelleke’, as it developed around the chapel of Onze-Lieve-Vrouw-aan-de-staak, which has been a place of pilgrimage ever since 1826.

The focus in this forest area lies on the lookout tower. From the tower you can admire the typical Kempen countryside. You’ll find trick pin courses, a playground, mini golf and a paddling pond.

Kruiden- en Inspiratietuin Abdijsite Herkenrode - Inspiratietuinen Herkenrode

Inspiration Garden Abdijsite Herkenrode

Be inspired by the garden!

Learn more about the history of herbs and how people through the ages and in different cultures used and continue to use herbs today in the Inspiration Garden. The garden consists of a hortus officinalis or teaching garden and an campus officinalis or cottage garden. Each garden has about 250 different herbs and herbaceous plants for you to explore. A place to always go back to and relax.
The garden is open from April 1th until 31th October.

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Ponyritten en voltige lessen de Stapperkes

Fietscoach en -gids - é-MTB

Bike coach and guide

We coach and guide cyclists, E-bikers, MTB, e-MTB for all ages and all levels.
Business tourism and team building. Family trips can be fully organized according to the customer. We offer mapped routes with culinary stops or picnics as desired.
Incentives MTB or e-MTB adapted to any level where the safety of the participants comes first. We always provide backup and assistance.

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Burgemeesterspark

Burgemeesterspark (Mayor’s Park) is a green lung in the middle of town. Close to the Burgemeestershuis and Sint-Pietersbanden Church. This atmospheric city park with monumental trees and artful park residents, is Lommel’s chill out and picnic spot par excellence when the sun in shining.

Art and music are never far away in Burgemeesterspark. Designed by landscape architect Paul Deroose and it is inhabited by ‘De Buitenmens’. A statue by Henk Visch whose crazy posture captures the attention at once.

Tip: Burgemeesterspark is also the ideal spot to listen to the carillon concerts on Wednesday afternoons.

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Covered wagon tours

Take a wagon ride! Enjoy the landscape gliding by in silence. Jos is happy to hitch his two thoroughbreds for a ride in the area. Soraja, on the other hand, prefers to rev up her metal steed on wheels: she’ll take you out on her tractor!

Soraja Fillée
Broekstraat (tegen het Pijnven), 3920 Lommel
+ 32 473 39 96 35
soraja.fillee@telenet.be

Jos Van Dommelen
Lutlommel 126
3920 Lommel
+32 11 54 68 68

Natuurgebied Alserbos - Alserbos

Nature area 'Alserbos'

This area comprises 65 ha and has an elevation difference from north to south of 160 m. to 240 m. above sea level. On the steep, western slope you can find an oak-birch forest with a variation of oak, lime, ash, bilberry and beech. The Alserbos is one of the rare places in the Voer-region where heather, gorse, pennyroyal and woody chamois feel particularly at home. Even the badger feels at home here and has an ideal living and foraging area. Part of the nature reserve has been opened up as a "play forest". Starting point: Bauwerd, 3792 Sint-Pieters-Voeren

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The perfect start for your journey in the Voer-region

Would you like to discover the region in a playful and interactive way? That’s possible: in the visitor’s centre you can visit the nature-led educational exhibition as well as the cartographic-educational exhibition.
the nature-led educational exhibition
The sliding windows, three-dimensional viewers, tunnels, doors, puzzles, sounds, lights and pictures of the nature-led educational exhibition reveal some of the secrets of that wonderful Voer-region. Did you know for instance that badgers and escargots or Roman snails are true inhabitants of Voeren? And that the mistletoe is hanging in the poplars as a real Christmas decoration?
Would you like to discover the other secrets of this region?
Then come and pay us a visit!
Let’s take a look …
Four inhabitants of Voeren welcome the visitor in their dialect. This immediately rouses the interest to get to know this “strange” region.
Next a panoramic view and a movie reveal a number of other secrets.
Through sliding panels you learn more about geology, the subsoil and the landscape. Interesting facts regarding fauna and flora are discovered in a playful way. By way of puzzles, buttons, tunnels, sounds and lights you get acquainted with a number of “special hosts” such as the badger, the escargot, the trout, the nurse-frog, the fire salamander, etc. “Southern and chalk loving plants” such as the mistletoe, wild marjoram, orchids, honeysuckle, red elderberry also love the region of Voeren ….
But not only nature is a main attraction point as the region also has a number of other worthwhile sights of interest such as the villages with their monumental and historic buildings and timbered houses: certainly worth a visit.
Beautiful pictures and pieces of craftsmanship will certainly rouse your interest. And the cow with a tower of milk will amaze every “townsman or woman”.

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Viewpoint Borlo

Make yourself comfortable at the covered picnic bench and look out over the rolling agricultural area of Mielen-Boven-Aalst and the villages of Muizen and Buvingen.

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Hike - B'Oscars

This new hike is suitable for children from 7 years of age and costs € 2.5.
The tour lasts 3.4 km; on the way you will be given various assignments.
Do you want to win a B'Oscar? Then don't hesitate and come discover this super fun hike. Buy your guide at the tourist office and start your hike at Station As.

Unfortunately this route is not suitable for wheelchairs or baby carriages.

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Relaxing in a hammock near a mill

Along the Abeek near the Luysmolen in Bocholt, a picnic area with hammocks was set up where it is nice to stay and relax. There are 6 hammocks available for loan at the Luysmolen for € 3 each for 2 hours.

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