Trompenburg, tuinen en arboretum
Honingerdijk 86 (beneden)
3062 NX Rotterdam
Telephone: 010 – 233 01 66
E-mail: tuin@trompenburg.nl
Opening hours April – October
Monday: 12:00 – 17:00 hr
Tuesday – Sunday: 10:00 – 17:00 hr
A fun day out that we don't just save for the summer vacation is a visit to Arboretum Trompenburg, you can find us there all year round. But now it is summer vacation and Puk has his JeugdVakantiePaspoort with which all the kids in Rotterdam can do an exciting scavenger hunt in the Arboretum. Which we did it last year and then it was a great success!
At the entrance, Puk is given a landing net, a clipboard with a pencil and a backpack. In the backpack - most important! - there are the assignments, a map, a magnifying glass on a jar and a centimeter. Curious what we are going to do?
This year the tour starts with downloading an app, then the trees will talk to you. No time for that says Puk, we first go to the Koi carp, his favorites, assignment number 3. On our way to the Koi Carp we run into signs with pine cones, they guide us to mission number 2, which is about pine trees.
We have to look for the pine forest so we follow the signs and very soon we found it! Then we need to find a particular pine tree but what is it's name? Quickly we write the name of the tree down on our clipboard. Wat is it's name? We keep that a secret ;))
How Nice, you may take the cones of the pine trees home with you. There will be enough pine cones left for the other children because there are so many! But now to the Koi Carp!
After the Koi Carp and assignment 4 we make our way to the tea house for a stop with tea, cake and an ice cream. A good time because we are half way into the scavenger hunt. Along the way we come across so many beautiful things! An aviary with the cutest baby birds, a greenhouse with only cacti, a bee hotel, a beautiful butterfly, a water turtle on an island (is it real?) and everywhere you look you see the most beautiful trees, flowers and shrubs!
After we had tea we go into this mysterious lane again. There is task 6 already but we shall keep this one a surprise! Task 5 comes shortly after it, with some difficult questions to answer! We first we have to count again and then we have to think really hard what the right answer could be! When everything is written down we walk to our final assignment, task 7.
The backpack with all the items and the landing net are returned and the clipboard is viewed by the lady. If you've done your best, you may choose a small plant to take home.