Broekeleiwandeling

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From the center of Keerbergen you walk to the Broekelei nature reserve, created from an ice age peat meander. The melting waters of the Demer and Dijle Rivers brought so much sand that you can still find it in the subsoil today. The sand, loam and clay provide a rich fauna and flora in a landscape of wet and dry woods, grasslands, pools, streams and ditches. Five bunkers in the landscape - remnants of WWII - are set up as hibernation sites for bats. You also step through the birth forest, a 1997 initiative of the Environmental Group.