Keukenhof

If you haven't heard of Keukenhof, it is this massive tulip garden near Amsterdam. To my dismay, I realized that the season for Keukenhof is in May! Somehow my research wasn't extensive enough and I chose to go Amsterdam in February =(

Koog-Zaandijk

Head off to Koog-Zaandijk, which is a 6 euro roundtrip, 1 hour from Amsterdam Central. This is the city of windmills, and there are a lot of mills to see and they are pretty interesting. There is a spice mill, cheese mill, clog mill and they will demonstrate how the goods are made and I found the cheese one to be rather enlightening. It is also a beautiful place.

If you start at like 9am, you can probably finish Koog-Zaandijk by 1-2pm, so after that you can tour Red Light District and Chinatown and visit some coffee shops. 

Skocjan Caves and Predjama Castle

Another place that we visited was the Skocjan caves. There are two famous caves in Slovenia, the Skocjan caves and the Postojna caves. The latter one is much more expensive than the Skocjan caves, so we went for the cheaper option. The Skocjan caves is really huge (it can probably fit an underground city) but the walk was really fast and it was all over in like 1.5 hours. 

Taken from the web since no photos in the cave

Whitewater Rafting, Triglav National Park

Cloudy Weather, so I took this from the web.

Vintgar Gorge

A short drive from Bled is a gorge called Vintgar Gorge. Costs like 2 euros to enter if you are a student.

Zagreb, Zadar and Split

There is nothing much to do in Zagreb, no walking tours or things like that. Pretty much coverable within half a day. You can visit the Museum of Broken Relationships (seriously?) and the cathedral and that is more or less what there is in Zagreb.

Plitvice Lakes National Park

Croatia! The country that I was most excited about about this Eastern/Central Europe trip which only turned out to be mediocre until you reach Dubrovnik. Not an easy country to travel fully as it is small but shaped long and narrowly, but it can be worth it to venture all the way down south into Dubrovnik, land of the Game of Thrones.

The reason why I was so excited about Croatia was because if its famous Plitvice Lakes National Park. Appearing on many XXX places you must see before you die, I was speechless when I always search for photos of the park online.

Taken from the web