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Leeuwarden: "FunForTwo", adventure and city walk for couples

1. Leeuwarden: "FunForTwo", adventure and city walk for couples

Explore Leeuwarden through an unusual, but fun adventure. Take part in an interactive smartphone game with your partner that will help you get to know each other even better. Unlock clues to your next destination by taking on tasks and answering tricky and funny questions about each other. You can choose English or German language for this self guided outdoor activity. You will download an app and all content (in English or German) in advance and then start your activity. Begin your game in the city center and allow the app to guide you from there. Receive instructions about how to move through the area and design your own route. Challenge yourself and your partner by acting as a team to solve even the trickiest questions and situational puzzles. Enjoy a special outdoor date and create long-lasting memories as a couple. Step away from mainstream sightseeing and create your own adventure. Take advantage of the bonus tasks to keep playing even after the city exploration game is over. Please notice: You will explore the area, but this city or its sights are not connected to the content of this outdoor adventure game.

Leewarden: AquaZoo Entry Ticket

2. Leewarden: AquaZoo Entry Ticket

Spend an adventurous day outdoors with a pre-booked entry ticket to AquaZoo Leeuwarden. Meet polar bears face to face, admire playful red pandas, join a seal adventure, and walk the beach with the penguins. Make your visit extra special with the zoo’s newest inhabitants. Located along the waterways in the Dutch province of Friesland, AquaZoo Leeuwarden is sure to give you an unforgettable zoo experience. The location offers you a truly smashing and splashing day out with its comprehensive variety of animals. Come face level with the Amur (Siberian) tigers and marvel at the Pere David's deer, now extinct in the wild. Keep your eyes peeled for the awe-inspiring red pandas and the South American capibaras and nandus. Make sure to meet some of the zoo’s newest inhabitants during your visit.  

Leeuwarden: City Center Highlights Self-Guided Audio Tour

3. Leeuwarden: City Center Highlights Self-Guided Audio Tour

Explore the beautiful city-center of Leeuwarden at your own pace. This self-guided audio tour will take you to all the well-known spots and undiscovered gems of Leeuwarden. The audio guide will tell you all the historical and current ins and outs of each place. One of the oldest cities in the Netherlands filled with monuments and canals, that is Leeuwarden. The capital of Friesland is known, among other things, for the herbal liqueur Beerenburg, Cambuur, and Leeuwarden is the start and finish of the Elfstedentocht, the world's most iconic and famous ice- skating race in which 200 kilometers on natural ice must be covered along 11 Frisian cities. Dive into the stories of the city during this interesting audio tour of Leeuwarden. You walk, among others, along the Jacobijnerkerk, the Waag, Blokhuispoort and impressive statues such as Anne Vondeling and De Frisiaan. Moreover, it is not necessary to go to Pisa to admire a leaning tower. Find out the story of the leaning Oldehoven tower during this city walk Go on a journey of discovery with your self-guided audio guide and get to know Leeuwarden and its history in a unique way.

Leeuwarden: Sherlock Holmes Self-guided Smartphone City Game

4. Leeuwarden: Sherlock Holmes Self-guided Smartphone City Game

Experience the excitement of being a detective and join the thrilling Sherlock Holmes game with your team. While celebrating freedom at the Liberty Festival, a man named Balthazar, the head of Homeland Security, is found dead with a knife in his back. The police have apprehended four suspects and it's up to you to solve the case and uncover the truth. By moving around the city you will unlock assignments. Here you will find characters who are willing to help. But the information comes at a price! Solve their puzzles, chase down culprits and play along to get closer to solving the murder. During this murder mystery you can check your progress on the suspect board. Can you solve the murder? Play Sherlock Holmes! IMPORTANT INFORMATION - Date: to book this game you have to choose a date, BUT you can play, pause & continue whenever you like. - Persons: 1 player stands for 1 team. - Note: this City Game uses the city as an interactive playing field, but does not provide any information about the city!

Leeuwarden: Escape Tour - Self-Guided Citygame

5. Leeuwarden: Escape Tour - Self-Guided Citygame

With the Escape Tour Leeuwarden you end up in the year 1664 and you take on the role of the stadtholder of Friesland: Willem Frederik van Nassau, also known as 'De Pechvogel'. After an affair with his wife's sister, his life was no longer certain, because his fierce brother-in-law had opened a manhunt for him in Leeuwarden. So he had to look for the secret exit! Choose your starting time with your teammates, beginning at anytime day or night. Make your way across the city, checking off tasks to find all the clues you need to reach the secret passage. As you search for clues, marvel at the beautiful sights of the town. Walk past the Saint Boniface church, wander through the lovely streets and keep an eye out for the many historic buildings in the city center. Work quickly, and you and your team could set the record for the fastest tour. Good luck!

Leeuwarden : City Exploratione Game 'The Walter Case'

6. Leeuwarden : City Exploratione Game 'The Walter Case'

Go on an adventure in Leeuwarden with our Urban Escape Games. Walk around the city with your team (with family or friends) and let yourself be guided by the mobile application. Solve the riddles and complete several missions. Watch your surroundings to help you! Explore differently: your adventure starts now! Lead an intriguing police investigation through the city. Are you ready to discover the truth? Plot: Play as a private detective and experience an immersive police investigation in the heart of the city! While investigating a banal blackmail story against a billionaire CEO, you learn that a bomb is hidden in the city, ready to explode in two hours! You are the only one with enough leads to defuse it in time... Tick, tock, tick, tock: the countdown has started! Start location: Blokhuispoort, Leeuwarden To start the game : - Enter the game code you received in the mobile application. - Use the map in the app to find the exact starting point. - Start whenever you want: you play alone with your team. Customer support is available in the app.

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