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1 Lancaster
A good place to start is
Lancaster’s (LANK-uh-
stir) walkable, red-
brick historic district,
just off Penn Sq. The
Romanesque Revival
style Central Market
(www.centralmarketlancaster.
com; 23 N Market St; h6am-
4pm Tue & Fri, to 2pm Sat),
has regional gastronomic
delicacies – fresh
horseradish, whoopie
pies, soft pretzels, sub
sandwiches stuffed
with cured meats and
dripping with oil – as

well as Spanish and

Middle Eastern food.

Plus, the market is

crowded with handicraft

booths staffed by

bonneted, plain-dressed

Amish women.

In the 18th century,

German immigrants

flooded southeastern

Pennsylvania, and

only some were Amish.

Most lived like the

costumed docents at the

Landis Valley Museum

(%717-569-0401; http://www.

landisvalleymuseum.org;

2451 Kissel Hill Rd; adult/child

$12/8; h9am-5pm, from

noon Sun), a re-creation

of Pennsylvania German

village life that includes a

working smithy, weavers

and stables. It’s a few

miles north of Lancaster

off Rte 272/Oregon Pike.

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The Drive » From downtown

Lancaster head south on Prince

St, which turns into Rte 222

Pennsylvania

12 Dutch Country

The.Amish.really.do.drive.buggies.and.plow.their.

fields.by.hand..In.Dutch.Country,.the.pace.is.slower,.

and.it’s.no.costumed.reenactment..For.the.most.

evocative.Dutch.Country.experience,.go.driving.along.

the.winding,.narrow.lanes.between.the.thruways.–.

past.rolling.green.fields.of.alfalfa,.asparagus.and.

corn,.past.pungent.working.barnyards.and.manicured.

lawns,.waving.to.Amish.families.in.buggies.and.

straw-hatted.teens.on.scooters..