Day 3 - Thursday 6/22

Visit to the Anne Frank House
Visit the Anne Frank House, where the young girl hid with her family from 1942 to 1944 and where she penned the poignant diary that has been translated into dozens of languages worldwide. Click here for official website.

Canal Cruise
Then cruise the city's canals on board a glass-topped boat-ride past moored houseboats, the city's lowest bridge and smallest house, and gabled merchant homes. You'll also see a bridge depicted in some of van Gogh's paintings. Note that the narrower the house, the less one had to pay in property taxes! Afterwards, you'll visit a local diamond factory.

Visit to the Vincent Van Gogh Museum
Here in this relatively stark and modern building (builty in 1973) hand over 200 of Van Gogh's paintings, including suched famed works as The Potato Eaters, The Yellow House, and Sunflowers.

Overnight in Amsterdam. Click here for hotel information.

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