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 Bootshaus Kaupen - Spreewald Delta - Lübbenau, Germany
N 51° 51.998 E 013° 58.508
33U E 429434 N 5746702
Kayak and Canoe rental in one of Germany's most beautiful river deltas.
Waymark Code: WMQ0F1
Location: Brandenburg, Germany
Date Posted: 11/22/2015
Views: 7
Friendly people, nature pure and a maze of 800 miles of channels, crisscrossing one of Germany’s largest wildlife refuges. Kayaking can’t get any better than that. You can bring your own boat or you can rent everything for a reasonable price from local outfitters.
Bootshaus (meaning Boat Shed) Kaupen is one of the major outfitters, located in the heart of the delta in close proximity to the town's center and with parking just a few hundred feet away.
The water is always calm and often less than four feet deep. Just make sure you have a good map and know how to use it.
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Map courtesy of Heimat-Verlag Lübben |
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Ten thousand years ago, at the end of the last ice age, retracting glaciers carved hundreds of ditches and rifts into a formerly plane landscape.
These ditches were later filled with water from the Spree river, forming 187 square miles (or 120,000 acres) of wetland in a delta system made of tiny channels that often look man-made but really are a freak of nature.
Put together, these channels have a total length of 800 miles - more than three times the lengths of the main river!
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We spent an entire afternoon paddling through the canals of the delta, enjoying nature at its best. Unfortunately, we left our camera ashore and only took one of those waterproof one-way cameras with us, resulting in 24 totally underexposed pictures. Here are two of the few pictures we were able to rescue:
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Check out our Kayak Trip waymark to see what you can expect on a trip.
Wkimedia has a good high resolution picture of the boat house.
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Available Rentals:
Kayaks and Canoes, one, tow and three seats. Additional arrangements to carry children or pets are possible.
No deposit, rental is payable on return, you don't have to decide ahead of time how many hours you want to go.
Location: River Delta
Charge/Deposit:
Depending on size and Weekday/Weekend between 5 and 8 Euro per hour, 25 Euro to 28 Euros per day.
Season and Hours of Operation:
Whole year except for some winters, when the delta freezes over
Website: [Web Link]
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Visit Instructions:
Please add at least one picture of the watercraft rental to your log. Maybe you have an interesting story to tell. Did you rent one of the watercrafts? Feel free to submit a picture where you ride one of the watercrafts if you like to. But this is not a requirement!
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