The tides, the powerful pulse of the sea, shape the landscape of the Lower Elbe. Thousands of skippers of leisure craft, captains of huge containers and the Elbe fishermen on their cutters – all are dependent on the tide, as the ebb and flow is called here.

The tides have formed a landscape of sandbanks and mud-flats which are released from the river twice a day. There are also idyllic little rivulets and rustling reeds. The people of the Lower Elbe like living near the river but have to protect themselves by building dykes.

From the flat-bottomed ship TIDENKIEKER guests accompanied by experts can observe this unique tidal landscape at first hand.