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delightfully named Amish

town is the Bird-in-Hand

Farmers Market (%717-393-

9674; 2710 Old Philadelphia Pike;

h8:30am-5:30pm Wed-Sat

Jul-Oct, call for other times of

year), which is pretty much

a one-stop shop of Dutch

Country highlights. There’s

fudge, quilts and crafts,

and you can buy scrapple

(pork scraps mixed with

cornmeal and wheat flour,

shaped into a loaf and

fried), homemade jam and

shoofly pie (molasses pie

sprinkled with a crumbly

mix of brown sugar,

flour and butter). Two

lunch counters sell cheap

sandwiches, homemade

pretzels and healthy juices

and smoothies. It’s worth

bringing a cooler to stock

up for the drive home.

The Drive » It’s less than 4

miles east on Old Philadelphia

Pike/Rte 340 but traffic can

back up, in part because it’s a

popular route for tourist horse

and buggy rides.

6 Intercourse

Named for the crossroads,

not the act, Intercourse

is a little more amenable

to walking than Bird-in-

Hand. The horse-drawn

buggy rides (%717-391-9500;

http://www.aaabuggyrides.com; 3529

Old Philadelphia Pike; adult/child

$12/6; h9am-7pm Mon-Sat,

hours vary; c) on offer can

also be fun. How much fun

depends largely on your

driver: some Amish are

strict, some liberal, and

Mennonites are different

again. All drivers strive to

present Amish culture to

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