Wadden Sea World Heritage Site Terschelling

Wadden Sea World Heritage Site

In 2009, the Wadden Sea was placed on Unesco's World Heritage List.

Both the Dutch and the German Wadden Sea were awarded World Heritage status.

The Dutch Wadden Islands Texel, Vlieland, Terschelling, Ameland and Schiermonnikoog as well as the Groningen wadden coast and Frisian wadden coast lie on the edge of this World Heritage Site.

Wadden Sea World Heritage Site
» Terschelling

You can reach Wadden Island Terschelling via a boat trip on the Wadden Sea World Heritage Site.

The Friesian port town of Harlingen is the departure point of the ferry across the World Heritage Wadden Sea to Terschelling Wadden Sea to Terschelling.

The boat trip takes you through channels, past mudflats, the bird island Griend and the sandbank de Richel in World Heritage Site the Wadden Sea.

World heritage Wadden Sea
» Experience the Wadden Sea for yourself

Arriving at west Terschelling, you can experience the Wadden Sea World Heritage up close from the island experience.

You can look into the Wadden Sea yourself from the Wadden dike World Heritage Site. At low tide, you can see channels, tidal flats, piers and huge numbers of shorebirds.

If you have binoculars, it is definitely worth taking them with you. From the dike you can see large groups of birds on the mud flats.