Visit Guernsey vs Zaanse Schans Experience

Explore the islands’ stunning scenery, secluded coves and rich heritage with these self-guided routes and wild swimming guides. The official VisitGuernsey app features a range of walking, cycling and driving routes, plus swimming guides to our beaches and bays, to help you explore The Islands of Guernsey. Whether it's the rugged south coast cliff paths and hidden bays, the long sweeping beaches of the west, exploring our archipelago or uncovering the historic past of the island's capital, the islands have much to offer. The wild swimming guides allow you to find your ideal swimming spots across our islands depending on weather conditions, location and tide times. Each guide details how to get to the bay, facilities information, swimming guidance and other activities you can explore at your swim location. With local tips and insight, these guides will help you see the islands from a new perspective. Each route includes directions to the starting point, estimated time and difficulty. The map interface helps you navigate trails and waypoints - where you can learn more about the islands through imagery and video content, and also discover nearby eateries and activities. Audio guides are also available.

The Zaanse Schans is best seen slowly, on foot. This app turns that walk into a trail you can keep. Eleven places sit along the route — working windmills, museums, workshops and the little shops between them. Each one holds a seal you can only unlock by standing there. Reach a mill, open it in the app, and the seal is yours. HOW IT WORKS • Open the map and see all eleven locations around you • Walk to any of them — the app guides you there • Unlock its seal once you arrive • Collect seven and your certificate is ready WHY STANDING THERE MATTERS A seal is proof you were really at the mill, not just near the Schans. The app checks you are at the location before it unlocks, so a finished collection means something — and so does the certificate that comes with it. YOUR CERTIFICATE Collect seven of the eleven seals and the app makes a certificate in your name, listing the places you reached and the days you were there. Keep it, print it, send it to whoever you were walking with. BUILT FOR A DAY OUTDOORS Coverage at the Schans can be thin. Places you have already opened stay readable when the signal drops, so the app keeps working while you walk between the mills. IN ENGLISH AND DUTCH The app follows your phone's language. WHAT YOU NEED Location access, to confirm you are at a site before its seal unlocks. Your position is used for that check and nothing else. Come for the windmills. Leave with the whole set.