Beyond the tulip fields, Dutch flower market draws tourists
The same tourists who flock to the flower barges in central Amsterdam get up at dawn and pay 7 euros ($8) to visit the warehouse. It is the size of 400 soccer fields and some 20,000 varieties of flowers and plants are sold there.
Each morning, the world's largest flower market swings into action by 6 a.m., when a cooperative founded in 1911 by Dutch growers holds an auction where bidders buy products to be exported all over the world.
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