{"id":253,"date":"2001-08-25T07:04:46","date_gmt":"2001-08-25T07:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hiptravelguide.com\/go\/hip-guide-to-amsterdam\/things-to-do-in-holland\/amsterdamse-bos\/"},"modified":"2001-08-25T07:04:46","modified_gmt":"2001-08-25T07:04:46","slug":"amsterdamse-bos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hiptravelguide.com\/go\/hip-guide-to-amsterdam\/things-to-do-in-holland\/amsterdamse-bos\/","title":{"rendered":"Amsterdamse Bos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-76\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hiptravelguide.com\/go\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/06\/bos1.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"250\" height=\"252\" \/><\/center> <\/p>\n<p>Need an escape from the hectic pace of Amsterdam? Why not plan a day at the Amsterdamse Bos? It&#8217;s a huge park on the edge of the city where you can leave behind the hustle and bustle and chill out in the woods or picnic on huge grassy lawns.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-250\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hiptravelguide.com\/go\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/08\/bos3.jpg\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" width=\"250\" height=\"196\" \/>Planted in the 1930s and 40s, the Bos is now a mature forest covering almost 800 hectares. It offers a diverse range of outdoor pleasures including lakes for boating, wading pools for the kids, the Openlucht theater presenting outdoor plays and music, a bison reserve, a campground, numerous bike, horse and pedestrian paths (all separate), and a wonderful feeling of being far away from the city.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-251\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hiptravelguide.com\/go\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/08\/bos4.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"350\" height=\"155\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hiptravelguide.com\/go\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/08\/bos4.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.hiptravelguide.com\/go\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/08\/bos4-300x133.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/center> <\/p>\n<p>On a recent warm day, I found many people lying in the sun, canoeing on a lake, one guy working with a laptop and cellphone dressed in a suit (sweating profusely), kids cooling down in the wading pool, many were sitting under umbrellas at several outdoor cafes, sipping sodas.<\/p>\n<p> <center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-252\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hiptravelguide.com\/go\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/08\/bos5.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"300\" height=\"130\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Need an escape from the hectic pace of Amsterdam? Why not plan a day at the Amsterdamse Bos? It&#8217;s a huge park on the edge of the city where you can leave behind the hustle and bustle and chill out &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hiptravelguide.com\/go\/hip-guide-to-amsterdam\/things-to-do-in-holland\/amsterdamse-bos\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bos_mb_destination":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-things-to-do-in-holland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiptravelguide.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiptravelguide.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiptravelguide.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiptravelguide.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiptravelguide.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiptravelguide.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiptravelguide.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiptravelguide.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiptravelguide.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}