# Cycling from Bruges to Damme along the Damse Vaart

What to do en Bruges · Bruges

Fuente: https://www.geocalia.com/en/belgium/bruges/things-to-do/cycling-to-damme · Revisado: 2026-11-12

- Desde: 13 € bike and day
- Duración: 3 h
- Temporada: All year; the guided ride and the boat, spring to autumn
- Para quién: Anyone who can ride a bike; flat, sometimes windy

Bike · about 7 km each way · flat, along the canal path between poplars · bike hire from €13 a day · 3-hour guided ride from March to October

From Bruges to Damme it is about seven kilometres along the Damse Vaart, a straight canal that Napoleon had cut towards Sluis and which is now lined with very tall poplars. The canal path is flat, almost free of cars, and in a little over half an hour of easy pedalling you reach the square of Damme, a village with a Gothic town hall, second-hand bookshops and a windmill beside the water.
How to do it
Leave Bruges through the Dampoort gate, to the north, and follow the canal bank: you can't go wrong. If you don't have a bike, Bruges Bike Rental, on the Niklaas Desparsstraat, two minutes from the Markt, hires city bikes for €13 a day, electric bikes for €30 and tandems for €25, with children's bikes, seats and helmets; book by email. If you prefer to go with a guide, Quasimundo runs a three-hour ride through the countryside to Damme from March to October, in English, of about 20 km.
You do the outward and return journeys by bike: the Lamme Goedzak boat, which links the two ends of the route, no longer allows bicycles on board.

Lo organiza: Bruges Bike Rental, desde 13 € per bike per day (https://www.brugesbikerental.be/prices.html)

Lo organiza: Quasimundo Bike Tours (https://quasimundo.com/en/)

## Cómo llegar y contacto

- Coordenadas: 51.2251, 3.2409

## Cerca de aquí

- [The Lamme Goedzak boat, from Bruges to Damme along the canal](https://www.geocalia.com/en/belgium/bruges/things-to-do/lamme-goedzak-boat), a 0 m
- [The windmills on the Kruisvest rampart](https://www.geocalia.com/en/belgium/bruges/things-to-do/kruisvest-windmills), a 1.1 km
- [Choco-Story, the Bruges chocolate museum](https://www.geocalia.com/en/belgium/bruges/things-to-do/choco-story), a 1.9 km
- [Frietmuseum, the museum of the chip](https://www.geocalia.com/en/belgium/bruges/things-to-do/chip-museum), a 2.0 km
- [Bistro Bruut](https://www.geocalia.com/en/belgium/bruges/where-to-eat/bistro-bruut), a 2.0 km
- [Cambrinus](https://www.geocalia.com/en/belgium/bruges/where-to-eat/cambrinus), a 2.0 km
- [Snuffel Youth Hostel](https://www.geocalia.com/en/belgium/bruges/where-to-stay/snuffel-hostel), a 2.0 km
- [Hotel Jan Brito](https://www.geocalia.com/en/belgium/bruges/where-to-stay/hotel-jan-brito), a 2.0 km

## Consejos

### Watch the wind
The path is flat, but exposed; if the wind is in your face, the electric bike makes up for it.

### Eat in Damme
Tante Marie, on the Kerkstraat, serves meals until 17:45; closed on Saturdays.

## Preguntas frecuentes

### How many kilometres is it from Bruges to Damme by bike?
About seven along the flat canal path.

### Can I come back by boat with the bike?
No: the Lamme Goedzak no longer takes bikes.

### Is there a guided ride?
Yes, Quasimundo's, from March to October, three hours in English.

Destino: [Bruges](https://www.geocalia.com/en/belgium/bruges.md)