One of the most popular tulip activities is watching the parades. There are two different parades that take place: the kinderparade and the volksparade.
If you really want a unique experience during the Holland tulip festival, you can pay a small fee to do a Tulip Time walking tour. You’ll see plenty of amazing tulip vistas and learn about Holland and its Dutch heritage during the two-mile tour.
On the northern edge of town, you will find 36 acres of gardens with over 100,000 tulips planted and surrounded by dikes and canals. As you are walking amongst the thousands of tulips, the famed 250-year-old working Dutch DeZwaan windmill will serve as a backdrop.
You don’t have to walk through gardens and large parks to get up close and personal with the tulips. Tulips will line the downtown streets in single rows and be in large groupings at the corners of intersections.
One of the best places to see tulips is at Nelis’ Dutch Village. More than 35,000 bulbs are planted for the festival each year and more than 100 varieties of tulips are throughout the theme park.