Sunday, October 25, 2009

The Dam

The central of Amsterdam is much more smaller than my expectation. From the central station walk to Damrak Square, it only about 1km. All trams will passby central station. There are a row of hotels located opposite canal and central station.The building behind is the central station, you can get metro, bus, tram, train here.It look a little bit messy and its always crowded.
One of the building along the dam road.
View from Damrak Square looking toward to central station.
Madame Tussaud and Royal Palace both located at Damrak Squre. Basically, you just need to stand on a same point, just turning the direction then you can shoot the photo with different building.The street beside madame tussaud is a shopping street! It is full of shoppers. One of the famous shop item in Amsterdam is "boot" Wow, it is really nice and trendy! The price range from E15 to E 300, of course if you have budget, you can get a true leather boots as low as E99. For me, i bought a grey color velvet boot at E29.90. And surprisingly the boot is very comfortable although i just wear it for the first time.
The Royal Palace, former town hall of Amsterdam is under renovation.
Our hotel is located at the far end of this row of building. Walk straight and pass by 2 canals, you will reach Dam Square.
We walk along damrak to find some excursions package. My colleague-Bergson had recommended us a travel agent - Lindberg, but i only remember it after we purchased the package. There are a lot of shops selling the excursions package. However we decided to go for the main shop - Tours and Tickets which is located at 34 Damrak. We decided to buy a Belgium day trip, cost us E53 per pax, and Marken, Volendam and Windmill half day tour which is E32. Initially we plan to go for Madurodam -the miniature world. But Bergson's comment was so so only, not really worth going. And i am glad that we listened to his advice. :)

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