Sports and leisure activities Eupen

Here's an easy 10-kilometre walk from the lower town of Eupen itself! As you leave the town, you enter a beautiful forest, first of deciduous trees, then of pines, following the course of the Vesdre. Soak up the sounds of nature and the rushing water. The Vesdre, which flows through lower Eupen, is one of three rivers that feed the Eupen dam and artificial lake, the country's third-largest drinking water reserve, which supplies Eupen, the Pays de Herve and even part of Liège.

The dam, which you can drive over (even drive your car over) and observe from both sides (reservoir side and lake side), is truly impressive. It's a veritable wall of stone, holding back an astronomical quantity of water. It took 12 years to complete (the dam was inaugurated in 1950). If you look at the lake side, you can see the gentle relief of the Hautes-Fagnes, covered with conifers that appear more black than green. Are we still in Belgium or have we been transported to Canada? A landscape that can be appreciated even better from the terrace of the Besucherzentrum Wesertalsperre, a panoramic restaurant high above the dam. Now's the time to take a break, wolf down some schnitzels, boulets liégeois or a nice waffle, before returning to Eupen via another path, which is part educational trail, between forest and countryside. The trail is very well signposted, so you won't get lost.