When you hear the clip-clop of hooves, smell the syrupy sweet aroma of shoo-fly pie, spot colorful hex signs on the side of barns and observe men with long beards and black hats riding their horse-drawn buggies down rural roads, you’ll know you’re in Pennsylvania Dutch Country.

Lancaster County is the heart and soul of "Penn Dutch," as the home of the Amish people living in this region west of Philadelphia is commonly called, and over five million people every year visit towns in Penn Dutch whose strange names include Bird-in-Hand, Paradise and Intercourse.

This is the place of one-room school houses, modern machinery pulled behind four-and six-mule teams, homemade quilts and wooden covered bridges. It’s also a place where you’ll find the freshest, most delicious locally grown vegetables, homemade ice cream and smorgasbords anywhere.

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