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Sohnarr Sjel

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Sohnarr Sjel

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Location: Geel, Turnhout, Antwerp, Flanders, Belgium

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1. Kapucienenberg Land Dunes – Trail alongside the Grote Nete loop from Meerhout

10.3km

02:37

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2. Belse Heide Nature Reserve – Kapucienenberg Land Dunes loop from Meerhout

20.2km

05:07

50m

Hard hike. Very good fitness required. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels.

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3. Belse Heide Nature Reserve – Kapucienenberg Land Dunes loop from Bel

5.37km

01:22

20m

Easy hike. Great for any fitness level. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels.

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Jeff S

August 19, 2023

Blissful stay on the bench by the fen, or step by step around it...

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🇧🇪 Herwig Aertbeliën

August 9, 2021

Pico bello belle Bel, just enjoy this restful place. Every season colors your view of the surroundings of this small heathland. Every season also has its own protagonists in nature. That is why this bench is our favorite resting place whenever we come for a walk in the Belse Heide.
Wonderful to stay here.

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Willytou(r)

March 9, 2022

The protected Belse Heide is one of the most beautiful and traditional things in the Antwerp Kempen. By clearing planted coniferous forests, heathland and drifting dunes regain the space they already showed in the Middle Ages.

The fauna and flora is specific with exceptional animals such as the rake wasp. The Belse Heide is one of the rare biotopes where this insect feels at home. There is no need to fear as the rake wasp only uses its stinger to stun other insects and then rake them away as food for offspring.

This landscape also housed prehistoric cemeteries. Finding small bones with axes, coins and pitchers made the minds of our superstitious ancestors spin. For them, this was the home of Alvermen. This small people lived in friendship with the local farmers. They never showed up, but according to tradition they did jobs at night for farmers in need of time. The farmers put coins on pasture posts as a thank you.

By the way, you should not confuse Alvermannen with alves, after which the Meerhoutse Alvinnenberg is named. These were evil spirits who deliberately led people astray.

The Meerhout sagas writer Juul Grietens (1884-1936) knew why we don't see any Alvermen anymore. According to him, they left in 1904 when their king Alveric was killed during test drilling for coal in Meerhout.

Or could these magical creatures have disguised themselves as a rake wasp?

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Location: Geel, Turnhout, Antwerp, Flanders, Belgium

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Sohnarr Sjel

1. Kapucienenberg Land Dunes – Trail alongside the Grote Nete loop from Meerhout

2. Belse Heide Nature Reserve – Kapucienenberg Land Dunes loop from Meerhout

3. Belse Heide Nature Reserve – Kapucienenberg Land Dunes loop from Bel

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