Day 3 - 13 December 2019 Today is flora and fauna day. In the morning, we visited Hortus Botanicus, which was first founded by the Amsterdam city council in 1638. As it was drizzling, there wasn’t many people and it was easy to navigate our way around the botanical garden. Most trees were “botak” during winter, otherwise the garden would have been gorgeous. We were done at about late morning and proceeded to our next destination - ARTIS (ARTIS Amsterda...

Day 2 - 12 December 2019 We started the day with breakfast at the IBIS hotel. It was surprisingly quite good and we had our fill before we began the day. After breakfast, we took the tram to our first destination of the day - Van Gogh Museum. It was interesting to read about his life as an artist, who never got famous until after his death. Among many of his works - the Sunflowers, the Bedroom, the self-portrait with bandaged ears, the Irises - stood out as ...

Day 1 - 11 December 2019 Number of members: Ten. Consisting of Loh’s family, my mum-in-law and our family. We met our guide - Peter - at the Schiphol Airport (Amsterdam Airport) at about 8am plus. Having loaded our luggages, his driver drove us to Giethoorn - a beautiful and quaint town. Due to the winter month, there wasn’t many people. In fact, we were the first group to do the cruise along the canals. The guide was telling us that on good days (in sp...