Ordinarily, each spring, more than a million visitors stroll, wide-eyed in the 32 hectares of Keukenhof, the largest tulip garden in the world located in Lisse, 35 kilometers from Amsterdam. But this year, due to the coronavirus pandemic, this floral park was closed to the public; a first since its creation 71 years ago.
Frustrating especially since the Keukenhof is only open two months a year, between mid-March and mid-May, when the 700,000 tulips in the park offer their dazzling blooms. It is therefore unthinkable to leave such a spectacle to the birds that nest in the trees. This is how Albert Dros, a young Dutch landscape photographer, asked the Keukenhof officials for permission to photograph one day during the jewel. Snapshots that he then shared on his Instagram account for our greatest pleasure.
