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Ten Important Things To Do When You Visit Belgium
elgium – a beautiful Be a smart tourist and visit
country that is quite Belgium at the time of year when
appropriately dubbed as the it’s most festive. During the
“Battlefield of Europe.” Indeed, month of February, Belgium hosts
Belgium has had its share of its most colorful festival ever,
wars. It has endured the rages of the Cranival of Binche. With
greedy kings and ambitious Firework displays and music
warlords from all epochs, but no parades and colorful costumes and
war can diminish this country’s projectile oranges, this
beauty, making it an ideal place certainly is a festival worth
to visit. participating in. This festival
is even included in UNESCO’s
1) Have a Cup of Hot Chocolate heritage list.
No Belgium vacation can be 3) Follow the Gourmet Trail
without a trip to the capital
city’s famous sidewalk cafes. It One of the greatest things about
is absolutely essential to drop the Belgians is that they know
by any of the several cafes good food like the back of their
littered in Brussels City and hands, and Belgium is known for
have yourself a sip of Belgium’s its fine cuisines that are
famous rich hot chocolate. If heavily influenced by the
there’s anything that the different countries that surround
beautiful country of Belgium can it. Try eating Belgium’s Mussels,
offer you, it’s your sweet a shellfish dish, and see if your
tooth’s utter satisfaction. tongue agrees with the Belgian
taste. Also, why not try
2) Participate in the Carnival of Belgium’s French Fries. It is,
Binche after all, the original.
4) Have Fun with a Fluvial Cruise the thing for you. Ghent City
hosts the Gentse Feesten, a
Hop on any one of Belgium’s gigantic street festival which
colorful boats and cruise around has everything from street
Belgium’s waterways to have a dancing to theater to diverse
perfect view of the various musical performances. The Gentse
cities and towns lining the Feesten happens on the 14th of
coastline. You can try the Lys July until the 23rd.
River, which will take you to
Bruges or Ghent. You can also try 7) Frolic in the Flander Fields –
the Escaut river to reach Tournai the Westhoek
and Bossuit.
Have you ever wanted to run
5) Exercise Your Inner Scholar unfettered through beautiful
flower fields and lush green
Belgium is a country that places plains? Well, your fantasy comes
high stock on good education. true in Belgium’s Flander Fields
Visit Ghent or Leuven, Belgium’s where the Flander fields are not
student cities, and hurl yourself only beautiful but also rich in
into local coffee shop and strike history. This is the only part of
a conversation with any of the Belgium that wasn’t captured
university students. You’ll be during the world war due to the
sure to find an intellectual townsmen’s ingenious plans of
conversation anywhere. opening the flood gate.
6) Party in Ghent 8) Brussel’s Oldest Citizen
If you’re the type who can party Who would have thought that
well into the night for days on Brussel’s Oldest Citizen is a
end, then Belgium just has just little boy atop a fountain? The
Mannekin-Pis, located in the Rue And, if you’re hungry for
de l’Etuve, is probably the most beautiful and diverse
popular tourist spot in the architecture, then Belgium surely
capital city. The Mannekin-Pis is is the place for you. Wallonia in
a bronze statuette of Belgian Belgium has a huge collection of
irreverence, a sculpture of a castles of every kind. They have
little boy who is ‘answering the fortresses and towers and
call of nature’ (e.g. taking a everything you will ever need for
piss). your medieval fantasies. These
castles have even become popular
9) Where Great Men Once Walked as honeymoon spots for newlyweds.
And you can’t have a trip to
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