On April 27, if you are in the Netherlands, you must take to the streets to participate in the King's Day! I've never seen orange in my life, and I've never seen so many orange people.

📙 Reasons for King's Day

King's Day is the annual birthday of the King of the Netherlands, when the Queen was in office, the Queen's Day was celebrated on the Queen's birthday, and now the King is celebrated on the King's Day.

The Dutch royal family inherited the name "The House of Orange-nassau", which literally means Orange, so orange is also the national color of the Netherlands.

Dutch athletes to participate in the Olympic team uniforms are also orange, although the national flag is red, white and blue, but the daily use of orange to symbolize more.

On King's Day, people will bring out all kinds of orange equipment, clothes, hats, shoes... From head to toe, always have a hint of orange. The streets of the Netherlands will also add a variety of orange colors, and even the food sold in supermarkets will be especially integrated into orange.

✴️ The party

On King's Day, there are events in the big cities of the Netherlands - Amu, The Hague, Rotterdam, Leiden, Utrecht - but it is Amu that is the livelier. Amu's layers of waterways and commercial streets provide more space for cruise ships and stalls. Rotterdam city scale is larger, walk a little farther, King's Day choose Eminem experience will be more interesting.

Koningsnach or King's Night in The Hague is an important prelude to King's Day. In The Hague, people start their wonderful celebrations from the night before King's Day. Dozens of musical performances will be held in the city center, and people will spend the whole night in the excitement of music.

🟠 flea market

There is also a flea market on King's Day. On King's Day, anyone can set up a stall and pay no taxes. Stalls are usually located in downtown areas, or places where people have established conventions. Early in the morning on King's Day, residents move out used goods they want to sell and wait for buyers to take them home.

Utrecht's flea market is the largest in the Netherlands, where you can always find one or two items that you want, and the process of bargaining is part of the fun of King's Day.

🟧 Dutch Royal Parade

Every year on King's Day, the royal family of the Netherlands will visit a city and spend the King's Day with the local residents. This year's King's Day event was once again held in Rotterdam to coincide with the 10th anniversary of the Dutch King's accession to the throne.

The King will join Queen Maxima and their three daughters (Amalia, Alexia and Ariane) for a walk in Afrikaanderwijk, a multicultural neighborhood in South Rotterdam.

In any case, joining the Orange Army is what matters! Orange scarves, glasses, warning vests, raincoats, whatever it is, just hang orange on your body and it will blend in!

On the day of Amu's event, the Dutch characteristic street standing urinals can be seen everywhere, and the high Dutch people drink beer in the canal boat, and find standing urinals to relieve themselves as soon as they get off the boat

Walk down the shopping street from Rotterdam Central Station and you will encounter a variety of orange people. There will also be interactive activities in the museum district's Vondelpark.