Aerial photograph of green pitches at Camping Kotestee in Ouddorp.

Podwalk From Country Estate to Campsite

This place has a history stretching back centuries. Echoes of the past can still be seen or felt in many places. On this podwalk, you stroll around the campsite while audio recordings guide you through its stories. Discover how a country estate beside the dunes became a campsite, what connects it with wooden aircraft, the church and the gallows, and where the name Kotestee comes from. Let the stories hidden among the sand banks and dunes carry you along.

Download the podwalk route

The audio recordings are in Dutch.

Follow the route and numbered points on the map.
Each number corresponds to an audio recording. Play it when you reach that location.

  • 1Introduction

    Beside the barn

  • 2Church paths: Ouddorp's hidden routes

    At the bend beyond the dune ridge

  • 3Sand banks: boundaries in the landscape

    Beside a high sand bank

  • 4The farm: a life of hard work

    Beside a field with touring pitches

  • 5The Koote family: a name that lives on

    Beside the barn

  • 6The woodland: a vanished piece of nature

    On a camping field where woodland once stood

  • 7A new family: seven generations in succession

    At the junction by the barn and entrance road

  • 8The Westduinen: a landscape in motion

    Beside the benches overlooking the Westduinen

  • 9Klarebeekweg: an old link with the village

    Where Klarebeekweg meets the campsite entrance

  • 10A military area: war and strategy in the dunes

    On the hill overlooking the dunes

  • 11The dune gate: a gateway to the wider world

    Beside the concrete post where the dune gate stood

  • 12From farm to campsite

    On the field by the entrance