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Go on holiday in the place of the Windmills

Holland has a superior ability mengola dearah under water. Where is the country with a large proportion of the population living below sea level, a great technology. One of the popular tourist areas in the country is Dutch drainage canals, building dykes and the Dutch windmill is famous for.

If traveling from Rotterdam, the second-largest city in the country, windmills and water gather in the Mills of Kinderdijk. This fun place that tells a tale about how they need to develop a passion for the management of water through the centuries.

Defined in the picture-postcard rural setting, Kinderdijk is so stereotypical we storybook image of the country, the scene may be subject to copyright laws. Dominates the flat landscape of canals, and fields of tall waving reeds that are easy on the 19 windmills of Kinderdijk, built in mid 1700.

Built in three styles, built windmills to power the complex system that is designed to keep pumping water at a safe level.

Today, they stand as a symbol of Dutch water engineering talent, reminds us that for centuries these silent sentinels keep the land safe and drained. Owing to this impressive windmills, do not wet the peat bogs finally reclaimed by local farmers.

They began by building walls, or dykes, low-lying areas around to form what is called a polder. They then dig a canal so that the windmills, and, in later years, steam and electrically driven pumps, can be used to pump water from the canal water into the higher placed basins, which eventually drain to the river or the sea.

Placed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1997, the Kinderdijk windmill area, 25 kilometers southeast of Rotterdam, has become a popular tourist.

In traveling from the past to present, visitors can tour the station that replaced diesel pumps windmills during the last century, and also see the giant electric-powered screws - one of the largest in Western Europe - which has become a state-of-the - art methods of elevating and scooping up water to the rivers.

The windmills, however, kept in working order. If called upon, they can again do their work which is designed to perform three centuries ago. Display a strong mill is designed to transmit wind power to paddlewheels, scoop up the water and direct it through the drainage system such as their modern replacements.

During the summer, which functions as a conduit recreational boating and kayaking options, while the peak of the dykes in the roadways used by hikers, cyclists and, in recent years, in-line skaters.

Visitors can come with the schedule is open every day from April 1 to Oct. 31, 9:30-5:30 outdoor season, it was only open on weekends, 11-4, the weather allows. Cover charge is $ 5.50 for adults and $ 3.15 for children.