When Walking Peakers join for a walk somewhere in the Netherlands usually the host of that day has walked the route before and knows a bit about the region we’re walking in. But a few weeks ago our host had to cancel her guiding due to personal reasons. We decided to walk anyway, only had to come up with an alternative route in short time. Since I live close to the province we were supposed to go for our walk (Limburg) I decided to see what I could come up with. I found a route that sounded promising but had no time to check out for myself. In the end there were three of us who met at the starting point near Afferden for a 12 km walk in Nature Park De Maasduinen. The weathergods blessed us with a day without rain and a nice temperature and it turned out to be a beautiful and surprising walk.
De Maasduinen is a region with dunes stretching out along de river Maas in the north of the province Limburg. The course of the river, the wind and mankind are resposible for the way it looks these days.
Our walk took us through woods of oaks and pines, over the heather (which didn’t bloom anymore at his time of the year) and of course through dunes. The views were breathtaking, fall showed its beauty in many colors and we were so flabbergasted by the abundance of enormous mushrooms that we called this ‘The Mushroom Walk’.
Since we were such a small group this time and because we had a weekend without walking on our walkingcalendar we decided to plan this route again at the end of november to give others a chance to join in. No need to say that I don’t mind at all!!
Take a walk! 