The Limburgian Hill Country - he can't do uphill, he doesn't dare to go downhill, and it's not flat

The South Limburg hilly landscape (NL), a circular route of approximately 80 km long starting from the youth hostel De Veurs in Sint-Martens-Voeren.

The first part to the village of Sippenaeken is still on Belgian territory.
The rest of the cycling route takes place mostly on Dutch territory, with a small part also on German territory, near the town of Orsbach.

From the center of the town of Vaals, after cycling 30 km, one can take an additional climb to the tripoint.
This turns out to be the highest point in the Netherlands, namely 327.5 m above sea level.

After a short descent of a few hundred meters and just a few meters lower, lies the restaurant De Bokkerijder where one can have a midday lunch.
From the spacious terrace, there are beautiful views of, among others, the German city of Aachen and further on the white plume from the German lignite power plant.

The entire cycling route goes up and down continuously, causing the elevation meters to swiftly increase.
The passage over the very steep Doodeman slope (14%) starting from the village of Stokhem, the counterpart of the Keutenberg, is a real calf biter.

And a little further in the nice town of Gulpen, one can, among other places, at the Inn De Zwarte Ruiter, raise the dropped water table a bit.
And then one is not far from the Belgian border, and a bit further lies Sint-Martens-Voeren, the starting point of the cycling tour.

As a treat, towards the end of the cycling tour, one can make a spectacular rocky descent to the center of Sint-Martens-Voeren along the summer-dry bed of the river the Voer.
This occasionally somewhat dangerous descent can easily be avoided by simply crossing the Voer, and then one is back on the very first part of the cycling tour, which is a gently sloping asphalt descent.

The Limburg Hilly Landscape route is a very hilly cycling tour with no less than 1,115 elevation meters if one also takes the climb to the tripoint.
This cycling tour is hardly flat anywhere, and is thus more suited for seasoned recreational cyclists with good endurance.