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Zaanse Schans

Overview

An overly touristy village, quite overrated.

The parking lot at the main museum is there but incredibly crowded and inadequate. Despite having capacity for at least 1,000 cars, the museum itself has only 2 toilets, accessible only by card, creating absurd queues.

Reminiscent of those artificially constructed "local villages" you see in Africa, a place that may have once been more authentic but has, by 2024, been completely transformed into a purely commercial tourist attraction.

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