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Genk is a city which is located in Limburg, Belgium. This is a quite active place and there most of times you'll find something to do.
Genk has 2 main attractive recreation area's: Bokrijk open air museum and the area of Kattevennen with the Europlanetarium.
Genk is a multicultural city which you will notice by the several different churches and mosques. This is due to the influence of many different nationalities that you can find in Genk.
Because of the history of the colemines Genk has some wonderful architecture and buildings that are worth a visit.
Genk is also called "The Green City" even in the centry of the city where you'll find the lovely Molenvijver Park. This big park includes a lake, HeemPark, many lovely spots to relax and several walking trails.
Genk is tevens een groene stad, zelfs in het centrum.
De Maten is a unique protected nature area in Genk and also one of the most beautiful nature sport in Limburg. |
| The beautiful Bokrijk area near Genk |
The beautiful Bokrijk area The beautiful Bokrijk area Bokrijk is a big recreation area which is suitable for you and old. You can visit the openair museum which bring Flanders of about 150 years ago back to life. This openair museum is an active museum that will take visitors back in time.
You can experience how they lived in the olden days, how they worked and how they would entertain themselves. There are more than 100 historical buildings to see, lovely gardens with flowers as also a herbal garden, windmills, trees animals and more. These buildings are equipped with all the authentic furniture and everything else like it used to be.
There's a whole staff that works at this museum in the summer that are also dressed up like the people 150 years ago. They do the duties and everything else the way it was a 150 years ago. You really feel that you stepped back in time.
There is also a big playground for kids outside of the museum grounds. There is an outdoor playground as well as an indoor playground
On my Genk travel pages I will go into detail about the places to see in this park |
| The sport complex of Kattevenia in Genk |
The area of Kattevennen I In the recreation area of Kattevennen located in Genk has much to offer. You can visit the Europlanitarium where you can learn about astronomy, meteorology and space travel.
There are also 2 walking routes: the nature route and the planet route. These are self guided walks where you can get close to nature. You'll walk through a lovely forest where you'll find boards where can read about the trees, shrubs, flowers and invironment on the nature walk. The planet walk is also self guided and you'll find the 9 planets. You can find info about each planet on the info boards along the way.
Then there is also "Georama" a geological garden which explains the birth of this earth through the different rocks and sediments. You will also find minigolf area, a sport complex, playgrounds and a ski area (outdoor on green plastic carpets). |
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roamer61 Wed Feb 11, 2009 16:01 UTC
Lovely destination. An option for any return trips to Belgium. | Jerelis Fri Nov 2, 2007 23:34 UTC
Genk looks like a nice place to visit. Love your tips, nice and extensive ones. Thanks for sharing. | mvtouring Mon Apr 2, 2007 07:47 UTC
Looks like a lovely place to visit, thanks for sharing ;-) | Jim_Eliason Sun Dec 4, 2005 01:32 UTC
looks like a fantastic destination! |
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