Within cycling distance of the Brussels city center lies a small paradise for walkers. This walk in Brussels will surely amaze you. Here, you can walk for 3 hours in greenery. And you will find forty species of birds and about ten amphibians. In the northwest, right on the border with Flanders, is perhaps one of the best-kept secrets of the Brussels-Capital Region.
Here, you walk straight into the Jette marsh. This area, along with the Ganshoren marsh, is one of the last remnants of the Molenbeek Valley. Although the land was divided in two at the end of the 19th century by the arrival of a railway line between Brussels and Dendermonde. Since 1995, the marsh has rightly been a protected nature reserve.

You will certainly feel the city's proximity and the hustle and bustle nearby. It is a wonderfully beautiful oasis full of contrasts, as you can hear cars racing on the highway at the edge of the woods. In the distance, towers of glass and steel break the pastoral fantasy that is the Ganshoren marsh. And yet, there are few places in Brussels where you can immerse yourself in nothingness.

Practical

• You can take the train to Sint-Agatha-Berchem Station
• You can park your car in the hypermarket parking lot of Sint-Agatha-Berchem (Mediamarkt - Carrefour - Brico)
• You can lock your bike at Berchem-St-Ag.-Berchem Bicycle Parking f2
• A lovely place to eat or drink is Chalet du Laerbeek