Generally many of these buildings are normally visited but some of them like De Waag (15th century city gate building), Beer Brewery (brewery under a wind mill), Tower of the old Church (oldest building), Huis met de Hoofden (beautiful canal house), Museumwerf’t Kromhout (an old ship wharf), tower of the Zuiderkerk (early 17th century tower which can be climbed) and other are opened especially for this weekend only.

The real entertainment will start during the last day where about 80 decorated boats along with a lot of music and number of boys and girls sails through Prinsengracht canal and Amstel River. The canal Parade will start at about 2 pm and will take about 3-4 hours to reach the end.

After the hard work of years, eventually the floating Dutchman, a new attraction in Amsterdam is ready to entertain the visitors. This Floating Dutchman is actually an amphibious bus that conducts a splendid ‘splashing tour’ through the water in the canals. The tour initiates from the Schiphol Airport to the highway into Amsterdam’s city centre, from here it turns to the Amstel river near the science Centre NEMO and continue through Nieuwe Herengracht, the skinny bridge – ‘Magere Brug’, the Royal Theatre Carre, the Blauwburg and the Amsterdam City hall via the Oude Schans, Oosterdok, returns to NEMO and after exiting the canal comes back to Amsterdam Airport. In reality after getting into the water an electric engine drives the bus. The complete tour consumes about 2 hours and 45 minutes so to enjoy this tour one needs to have minimum of 4 hours of transfer time. During the ride one can’t get off, neither there is any stoppage. It has been especially planned for transferring passengers on airport of Amsterdam. It is an exciting opportunity for the visitors who have long layover at Amsterdam Airport or with a tight schedule to visit the sightseeing in “splashbus”. Many Trips are conducted daily after a short time interval.

January is probably the coldest and ideal month in Amsterdam when city delights with the magical covering of dust of snow. It is the low season and thus good time to visit the city’s most popular attractions as the queues everywhere are the shortest. At this time days are short and weather might be quite cold but the flights and rooms are at their cheapest rate. The weather in this month is unpredictable-fluctuating from mild to freezing temperature or rain to snow (only dusting). The temperature varies between 31°F- 40°F and the average precipitation is about 69 mm. It is better to include umbrella, waterproof or windproof coat, warm clothes, comfortable shoes and day bag along with the other items of packing. To make the season more exciting public ice rinks are set up in the city offering free skating opportunity provided one owns the skates. If not, skates can also be hired from the place. The most thrilling activity is shopping in this season. A number of shops are in the row offering January Sale and thus the expensive designer dresses can be bought at reasonable rates from the fashionable boutiques. Although there are less annual events in this month but Amsterdam invite the visitors to experience the winter fun by enjoying ice skating, seasonal cuisine while wandering along canals and bridges or hang out in a cafe or coffee shop. The cultural programs at Concertgebouw, Stopera and other places are at full swing to entertain the guests.