Easy hikes and walks around Bois de la Cambre - Terkamerenbos

A solid wood bridge crosses the Horseshoe Pond, which is thus divided into two parts.

Great park and even better bike paths on the old road.

A 1600m long racecourse ideal for interval training. It has a fine gravel surface.

To the right of the pond, an impressive rock formation with a waterfall was built in 1869. It is 8 m high and 13 m wide. This evocation of an Alpine landscape consists of rocks of sculpted concrete (masonry, rubble and reinforced concrete) and rubble. A small arched bridge in mortared brickwork and a parapet of imitation branches runs over it. The mechanism that pumps water from the pond to feed the waterfall has long been out of order and bricked up.

Don't go on a Sunday when the weather is nice. Crowds of walkers, joggers, cyclists...you can't hear the birds singing anymore!

Sculpture

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Here we see a watercourse, which is enough for a beaver. If the beaver builds a dam here, it can become a pond or a lake in two or three years. The animal can change an entire ecosystem, simply because its dam retains water and rain. These natural beaver dams are very efficient in combating floods and droughts, because they regulate the flow of small watercourses. Locally, they can shape the forest through flooding by flooding parts of the forest, causing the tree vegetation to die. When the beavers leave their dam and their beaver pond, a succession from pioneer forest to climax forest can start again after the reservoir has drained.