Pennsylvania Dutch, Lancaster County PA, Travel Vacation

Pennsylvania's Dutch Country offers Villages named Bird-in-Hand, Intercourse, and
Paradise where people of German decent called Pennsylvania Dutch work the land. The
local farmers ride in horse-drawn buggies with rear-view-mirrors and directional lights.
Vacation attractions include Strasburg steam trains and a motel made from retired railroad
cabooses.

On Sunday the young men of Lancaster
horse-drawn cruise around town. Their
horse-drawn cruise around town. Their
Standard-breads high-step down Route 30
while truckers ease their big rigs around them
trying not to spook the ponies. The Amish are
expert horse trainers and each large farm
might have many animals including seven
Belgians or Percherons to pull the plows, two
draft mules to pull winnowers, and a trotter to
pull the surrey used for the Sunday drive.
The young men will use the open coach in the
Sunday courting ritual and prize the grace and
spirit of their thoroughbred and Morgan
crosses initially bred for harness racing.
The horses are such high steppers that if it
weren't for the clip clop of hooves on
pavement you would think that these ponies
could fly.

Milton Hershey combined his 17th Century farm
ethic and hard work with 20th Century technology
when he built a factory northwest of Lancaster on
Route 283 where he also built a town and
eventually a huge complex dedicated to chocolate.

Although raised by Mennonite parents, Hershey
embraced the machine age and put the latest
1905 technology to work near a source of
abundant fresh milk to become our favorite
chocolateer.
With his fortunes from chocolate he built an
antique automobile collection, a huge amusement
park, a zoo, and a 23-acre rose garden for his
wife. Visitors can take trolley rides through the
town on streets named Chocolate Ave and
Hershey Drive, each lined by street lamps in the
shape of the Hershey Kiss. A highlight for kids
might be the tour of a simulated factory complete
with animated cows that sport boas and croon a
hip-hop opus to milk.

Mr. Hershey was an innovator; the factory now
processes one million pounds of milk chocolate
daily and ships 80 million Hershey Kisses each
day throughout the world.
Everything in town says chocolate and this
includes a spa treatment at the Hotel Hershey
where you can wash away your travel aches
immersed in warm slurry of rich therapeutic
chocolate.

Hershey Chocolate

Pennsylvania Dutch, Lancaster County PA, Travel Vacation

Pennsylvania Dutch Country, Lancaster County, PA

Pennsylvania Dutch Country

Pennsylvania Dutch Attractions
www.hersheyspa.com      Chocolate Spa 1-877-772-9988
www.aaabuggyrides.com Buggy Rides in Paradise             www.ppquiltmuseum.com   People's Place
Quilt Museum
www.amishfarmandhouse.com   Working Farm and Museum
Amish Penn Dutch Engineers Historical Museum   Rough and Tumble Engineer's Historical Association

You will find so much contrast in Pennsylvania Dutch country and so much more to see -Village
Pottery in Intercourse, the Wine Gallery in Mount Hope, the Cornwall Furnace Museum near
Hershey, the Harley Factory in York-that at times you might feel envy for the locals and their simple
way of life; they take Sunday off, the day of rest.

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How to Reach Amish Penn Dutch Country:
By Auto: From the south take Route 95 to Baltimore, Route 83 to York
(Harley Factory). Route 30 to Lancaster,
From the north,: Route 95 to Philadelphia and then Routes 76, 202 and
30 to Lancaster. From the west, Harrisburg
By air: Philadelphia Airport and rental car

When to Go To Amish Penn Dutch Country: April is a good month to visit because you might
combine your visit to Amish country with a visit to Longwood Gardens where on the second or third
week in April the tulip gardens are in full bloom. Otherwise May until October are good months to
visit and enjoy outdoor activities..