Day trips from Maastricht

A hill town with a castle ruin, caves and the country's only cable car.

The 'white village', where every house was painted white.

High moorland crossed by wooden boardwalks, Belgium's highest point.

Slate-and-timber houses packed along a narrow river valley in the Eifel.

A tiny cobbled town in the Ardennes, known for its topiary park.

A canal town with a beguinage and an astronomical clock tower.

An onion-domed church squeezed between the Meuse river and a cliff with a citadel.

Huge underground halls carved by a river in the Ardennes.

A small desert of drifting sand in the middle of the Netherlands.

A fairytale castle above a river town in the Luxembourg Ardennes.

A maze of creeks and willow forests, home to beavers.

Mossy sandstone gorges and forest paths, called Little Switzerland.

The oldest city in Holland, with harbours and leaning merchant houses.

A castle on a vine-covered hill above the Moselle river.

Nineteen historic windmills along the canals of a polder.

Heathland, forest and drifting sand dunes, with free white bikes to ride.

A Gothic town hall on a big market square, famous for its cheese.

A Flemish town with a lacy Gothic town hall, in the heart of cycling country.