American Reacts to The Veluwe - A Timelapse Film

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[renevw]

A lot of people only go to Amsterdam or the big cities. But he, if you see this. No building can even get close to the beauty of nature. A beautiful time to take a look at the Veluwe is mid august to mid september. Then its all purple you see !

[Trazynn]

For the Netherlands, the Veluwe is the place where the last ice age's glacier that covered the northern hemisphere ended, everything is flat except for that place where the ice pushed up earth into a hillscape. There's an entire moraine (a hill barrier) that runs through this region. It's beautiful.

[HaraldSeiwert]

And in the middle of this national park Veluwe is a museum which shows (among other masterpieces) 90 paintings and 180 drawings of Vincent van Gogh. It's really amazing (museum Kröller-Müller)

[Linda-hslk]

An American young man told me a few years ago his teacher taught him The Netherlands doesn't have nature, only concrete. It made me laugh (it's kinda sad also when teachers teach their students so much crap) and I sent him loads of pictures of our country.

[koningwilly]

I have lifed all my life close to the Veluwe, its very beautiful out there.

[anniek]

The Netherlands was oceanfloor before it was the Netherlands. You can even find seashells in some places. The Veluwe is on the eastside of the Netherlands, And if you go down south to Limburg you even find hills. Those are the toes (not the foot (thats'to shallow for that) of the Alps in Germany). The purple is the heather, its blooming. the latin name is Erica.

Oh...and E on the end of Veluwe is also pronounced. If you are learning dutch the "we"on the end is pronounced the same as the pronoun "we" in dutch (you know. ik, jij, wij, we, Your "we" sounds like wee😉so that's not what i ment.

Oh by the way 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻for learning dutch. We know its a very difficult language. I think your understanding of it is very good. The pronounciation is hell for anyone....i know....but keep it up. Oh i got a nice word for you. This word as 8 consonants behind one another.
"Angstschreeuw" aNGST SCHReeuw. have fun with it 😜

[Mcorpmike]

I am a born Arnhemmer and this is the place where i always went for a bicycle ride, also a great place for hiking with the girl. Its called a “zandverstuiving” the sand dunes.

[marcusfranconium]

The netherlands and belgium are verry varied in nature . from swamps to ancient forrest to coastal dunes, The hills in the netherlands would be either formed by the ice age that pushed the land up or dunes that are created by wind.
What makes the lighting special is that the netherlands is extremly low lying and due to its coastal region there is quite a lot of salt cristals in the air that give that special lighting. often it was said that the skys in dutch paintings wasnt real until people actualy went to the netherlands and see the sky for them selfs.

[EdwinvandenAkker]

There is indeed a lot of purple. It is the heather. It blooms only for a few weeks in fall.

There is a wide diversity of nature in The Netherlands. One place has almost all kinds in near proximity, that's in the northern part of the Noord-Holland province, in the Bergen / Schoorl area. There is heather, sand-dunes, beaches, swamps, different kinds of forests, flat "polders" (reclaimed land) and hills.

If you ever come to visit The Netherlands, that area is really recommended... It's only like an hour from Amsterdam. The Netherlands is a small country. But a small country with so much diversity.

[marloesszz]

i study landscape design and live opposite the Veluwe. The sandy area and the heathland were created during one of the last ice ages and partly due to overgrazing by cattle such as sheep. The hills were also created in an ice age by glaciers coming from Scandinavia. These are called moraines.

[dunk]

Also almost all forrest was gone during the middle ages. Almost all land was converted to farmland. When mining started they needed wood for constuction in the tunnels in Limburg. (South of the Netherlands) So they did grow back a lot of forrest, but not the original trees that belonged to the Netherlands. Almost every forrest you see in the Netherlands was made for the mining industrie. The purple plants you see in the video are plants that original belonged to the Netherlands, but you have to get ridd of all the trees and other plants first, so those original plants can grow back again.

[stefgrootlipman]

The purple is heath, this is what google said: ''Heide'' or ''hei'' is a name for vegetation that mainly consists of dwarf shrubs from the heather family. Heath occurs in a limited number of countries. In addition to the Netherlands and Belgium, also in the coastal strip of Western Europe, Great Britain and Ireland. Wikipedia

[pachacutiyupanqui]

In the Bronze Age people farmed the land to desertification, causing huge wet open sand drifts in the Netherlands. AKA, wet sandy places.

[OP-]

The purple is heather and the sand that looks like dunes are sand drifts.

[hanneken]

One reason several of those forests were so free of undergrowth is that they were beech forests. Beech trees drop a mild 'poison' from their crown that inhibits plant growth in the soil underneath the tree. This means they don't get competition from other plants and seedlings for the nutrients their roots can reach.

[Dani-tkwj]

The Veluwe is such a beautiful place. An organisation called Staatsbosbeheer is monitoring and maintaining the Veluwe. I did my internship there last year. They are trying to prevent over growth to eliminate any form of competition for the nutrients in the forest soil. This is needed since the Soil of the forest is impoverishing for quite some years now. There are also quite a few animals that roam the forest in a search for young plants that they can eat, which also contributes to the clear forest floor.

[gabrielabahre]

I live in this area....And yes it s amazing...The Netherlands it s a very beautiful country...where the sunset just makes you believe in magic

[JanBinnendijk]

The ground in the Netherlands is made up of different types of soil, in the west, along the coast it is mainly Peat, more to the east and north, you get Sand, and also clay.
Then also consider large parts of the Netherlands are reclaimed, so basically seabed or lakebed.
The Veluwe is like our National Park..

[SAMUDRAMAC]

Yes, there are some parts of the country where you find open sand drifts with dunes. The sandy soil is perfect for heath, which is often kept short by sheep. The heath blooms in August/September, depending on the weather. It turns the entire landscape purple. A truly amazing sight to see. Tulips in April-May, heath in August-September.
The Veluwe is kind elevated, with hills. During the last ice age the land ice had push land forward, like a giant shovel, and when the ice disappeared there were hills and even a whole ridge of hills, exactly where the ice stopped; the Utrechtse Heuvelrug. In the province of Drenthe you can find big rocks that don’t belong there, but were brought there in the land ice from Scandinavia. Cool, right?

[frith.calluna]

Haven't seen anyone mention this so I'll leave this comment here to promote my hometown :D
Every year at the end of August, the municipality of Ede (close to the Veluwe) celebrates Heideweek. This is around the time when the heath blooms and you get those beautiful purple colors everywhere. It only lasts a little while, but it's absolutely gorgeous to witness.
There are many different events thoughout the towns during Heideweek. A Heath Queen and Princess are crowned, there are concerts, sporting events, etc. There's always something to do.

Sometimes I forget how lucky I am to be living next to such a beautiful display of nature, so this video was very inspiring :D