Our tours 2009

What is Island hopping?

The trips, we offer in Croatia, Greece and Turkey are combined bicycling and ship trips with experienced multilingual tourguides. Normally you will be accompanied by two tourguides, who will guide you during the cycling tours and will give you an understanding of the country and its inhabitants. During your trip you will be accomodated on a romantic motorised sailing boat or a motor yacht. The cook will pamper you with typical food of the country. Our cycling tours are performed without hurry, as it is very important to us, that you have enough time to enjoy the landscape and to gain impressions. We provide well maintained rental bicycles on every trip. 

Istria by bicycle (1 week)

Pula Amphitheater
Brijuni National Park
  • Character: The Istria tour is a  combination of bicycle tours along the flat Istrian coast und tours into the hilly midland. You will explore the most popular part of the Croatian coast and pass worth seeing historical cities.
  • Highlights: the amphitheater in Pula, the National park of Brijuni, the basilica of Euphrasius in Porec, the artist town of Groznjan and the pittoresque Old Town of Rovinj.
  • Requirements: Level 1-2. The bike routes require a basic level of fitness, which you should have acquired by occasional or daily cycling.  The routes reach a maximal height of 200 m. The daily routes of 30 km (18 mi.) on average, cover hilly terrain and can be completed without time constraints. Not all the roads are asphalted (ca. 20 % gravel roads).
  • Accomodation: Ship Tarin (maximum 26 participants)
  • Duration of the tour: 1 week, you can combine the Istria tour with our tours in the Kvarner Bay.
  • Catering: half -board.

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Kvarner Bay by bicycle (1 week)

Rab bell towers
KVA mud bath
  • Character: The cycle tours on the islands offer beautiful views over the sea, the circumjacent islands and the nearby Croatian mainland again and again. During the nights your ship will stay in worth seeing towns or small and quiet harbours. Scanty islands like Rab or Pag and fertile and green islands like Losijn or Krk alternate.
  • Highlights: The harbour of Cres, the small sailor place Veli Losinj, the cycling on Dugi Otok with its breath taking views, the town of Rab with its four famous bell towers, the town of Krk and the small pirate town of Vrbnik with the narrowest alley of the world.
  • Requirements: Level 2-3. The journey to Kvarner Bay belongs to the more challenging tours of our programme. On most of the days we offer two cycling tours, which normally start with a longer ascent. As you will always meet the ship for lunch (except on Krk island) you have the opportunuty, to cycle for only half a day and to take the ship afterwards. Normally you will use asphalted roads, which are low frequented out of holiday times.
  • Ships: Adonis (max. 22 participants), Tarin (max. 22 participants), Linda (max. 30 participants)
  • Duration of the tour: 1 week, You can combine this tour with our other tours in Kvarner Bay (mountainbike or hiking) or with our Istria tour.
  • Catering: full-board

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Kvarner Bay by mountain bike (1 week)

KVM Rab
Veli Losinj
  • Character: With this journey the sporty aspect stands more strongly in the foreground than with our trekking bike journeys. Nevertheless you'll always have enough time to enjoy the beautiful landscape and to visit the sightseeings. Often you'll use single trails that are only known to insiders and in this way you have the possibility of learning to know the islands from a side which remains often hidden other travellers.
  • Highlights: the harbor of Cres, the seafaring town of Veli Losinj, the city of Rab with its four famous bell towers, the Old Town of Krk und the pirate town of Vrbnik with the narrowest alley of the world.
  • Requirements: The tours are of low to medium level of difficulty, divided into daily stages of 40-60 km on mostly peaceful asphalted roads, concrete coastal paths, nature trails and single trails at an average altitude of 300 metres, and can be completed without time constraints.  You can always decide to skip a bike-tour and spend a day on the ship. The daily program is of course always dependent on the weather conditions and the instructions of the captain.
  • Ships: Adonis (max. 22 participants), Tarin (max. 26 participants)
  • Duration of the tour: 1 week, You can combine this tour with our other tours in Kvarner Bay (trekking bike or hiking) or with our Istria tour.
  • Catering: full-board

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Kvarner Bay hiking cruise (1 week)

Kvarner Bucht Wanderer
Kvarner Bucht Wanderschilder
  • Character: The hiking journey forms an exception under our journeys, since it is the only one which is accomplished afoot. More intensively than with the bike you have the possibility of experiencing the individual islands since also off asphalted ways one runs and sufficient time remains to stay for a while at beautiful places.
  • Highlights: the raising station for goose vultures on the island of Cres, the city of Krk, wanderings through the so-called Dundo-forest on the island of Rab, the city of Rab with its four famous bell towers, the small seafaring town of Veli Losinj.
  • Requirements: Light to average hikes ranging from 4 to 5 hours over mostly stony chalk/limestone ground. Hiking shoes/boots recommended.

  • Ship: Tarin (maximum 26 participants)
  • Duration of the tour: 1 week. You can combine the hiking tour with our bike tours in the Kvarner Bay (mountain bike or trekking bike) or with our bike tour to Istria.
  • Catering: full-board

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National parks of Dalmatia by bicycle (1 week)

Krka Wasserfälle
Dalmatien Blumenbild
  • Character: This journey offers a mixture from mainland routes and routes over the islands that are in proximity to the coast. The visited islands are thinly settled and usually it stands the breath-robbing beautiful nature in the foreground. In addition, also the culture forms an important part of the journey, because the cities of Trogir, Sibenik and Zadar have an rich historical inheritance, whose inspection is worthwhile itself.
  • Highlights: the Old Town of Trogir, the Cathedral of Sibenik, the so-called Krka -waterfalls, the city of Zadar, the National Park of the Kornati islands.
  • Requirements: Level 2. This tour to the National Parks of Dalmatia is one of the easiest in our programm. Only on the mainland routes and on Dugi Otok are to be overcome larger upward gradients, which are however not too long. The bicycle tours lead mostly across little traveled roads.
  • Ships: Romantica (max. 36 participants), Kapetan Jure (max. 30 participants), Otac Nikola (max. 30 participants)
  • Catering: full-board
  • Duration of the Tour: 1 week, You can combine the tour with our tours in Southern Dalmatia.

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Southern Dalmatia by bicycle (1 week)

Süddalmatien Trogir
  • Character: The constant change of breath robbing views, unaffected nature and cities worth seeing makes this journey one of the most varied in our program. Although Southern Dalmatia is the inhabitant-poorest region of Croatia, especially the capitals of the islands rank such as Korcula and Hvar among the most beautiful places of Croatia, and did not lose anything from their charm also by the increasing tourism.
  • Highlights: the Old Town of Trogir, the city of Split with the famous palace of the Roman Emperor Diocletian, the city and the island of Korcula, the island of Mljet, which is famous for its honey, the city of Hvar.
  • Requirements: Level 2 to 3. The journey in Southern Dalmatia belongs to the more fastidious routes of our program and lies from the degree of difficulty still somewhat over the journey into the Kvarner bay. On most days two bicycle tours stand on the program, which begin mostly with a longer rise on the island backs.  The routes usually lead across asphalted roads, which are not strongly traveled outside of the vacation times.
  • Ships: Otac Nikola (max. 30 participants), Romantica (max. 36 participants) or Kapetan Jure (max. 30 participants)
  • Catering: full-board
  • Duration of the tour: 1 week, You can combine this journey with our tour to the National Parks of Dalmatia

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Southern Dalmatia by mountain bike (1 week)

Mountainbiker
  • Character: If you decide for this tour, an extremely varied journey with ship and mountain bike is waiting for you. As an modification of our classical Southern Dalmatia route this MTB tour differs only by the choice of the bicycle distances.
  • Highlights: the Old Town of Trogir, the city of Split with the great palace of the Roman emperor Diocletian, the island of Korcula and its beautiful capital of the same name, the island of Mljet, which it famous for its honey and the city of Hvar.
  • Requirements: (level 2-3) Level 2-3. The bike tours of 40-60 km will be on mostly peaceful asphalted roads, concrete coastal paths, nature trails and single trails at an average altitude of 300 metres, and can be completed without time constraints.
  • Ship: Kapetan Jure (maximum 30 participants)
  • Catering: full-board
  • Duration of the tour: 1 week, You can combine this journey with our tour to the National parks of Dalmatia.

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Dalmatia from Trogir to Dubrovnik by bicycle (1 week)

Biker
Dubrovnik
  • Character: For those who would like to experience the region Southern Dalmatia in an intense way, but would not like to miss Dubrovnik, this tour is the perfect choice. Here you have the chance to get to know the region of South Dalmatia and its most important towns and islands.  Your tour guides will show you the nicest spots and cities of one of the most interesting regions of Croatia.

  • Highlights: the Old Towns of Trogir, Split, Korcula nad Dubrovnik (most of them protected by the UNESCO), the honey island of Mljet with it's National park, the famous wine-growing districts of Dalmatia
  • Requirements: (level 2-3) The bike-tours require a basic level of fitness from participants, which they should have acquired from steady cycling. The tours will take us up to a height of between 200 and 500 m above sea-level. The day-tours from 30 to 60 km will take us through hilly and mountainous terrain and will be completed without any time-constraints. Participants will also need to master long and steep climbs.

  • Ship: Otac Nikola (max. 30 participants) and ship Romantica (max. 36 participants)

  • Duration of the tour: 1 week. You can combine this tour with our tour to the National parks of Dalmatia.

  • Catering: full-board

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Dalmatia from Dubrovnik to Trogir (7 days/6 nights)

  • Character: This tour is similar to the trip from Trogir to Dubrvonik, but is one day shorter - however, without missing any worthseeing sites.

  • Highlights: Old twos of Trogir, Dubrovnik, Korcula, National park of Mljet

  • Requirements: (level 2-3) The bike-tours require a basic level of fitness from participants, which they should have acquired from steady cycling. The tours will take us up to a height of between 200 and 500 m above sea-level. The day-tours from 30 to 60 km will take us through hilly and mountainous terrain and will be completed without any time-constraints. Participants will also need to master long and steep climbs.

  • Accomodation: ship Romantica (max. 36 participants) or ship Otac Nikola (max. 30 participants)

  • Duration: 7 days/ 6 nights

  • Catering: full-board

  • Dates: 19.04.-25.04.2009 and 07.06.-13.06.2009

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Dalmatia from Dubrovnik by bicycle (1 week)

Old town of Dubrovnik
dragonfly
  • Character: If you would like to experience the region of South Dalmatia in an intense way, not wanting to do without Dubrovnik, you should decide on this sail and bike trip. Accompanied by captain Damir’s Linda, you will get to know the sparsely populated part of Croatia including the islands of Sipan, Korcula, Lastovo and Peljesac.

  • Higlights: the town centre of Dubrovnik that is listed on Unesco’s world heritage list, the fortification system of Mali Ston and Ston on the peninsula of Peljesac, the famous Pupnat bay

  • Requirements: Level 2 to 3. The journey in Southern Dalmatia belongs to the more fastidious routes of our program. The daily routes of 30-50 km lead through hilly and mountainous area, but will be completed without any time-constraints. Participants will also need to master long and steep climbs.

  • Ship: Otac Nikola (max. 30 participants)

  • Duration of the tour: 1 week

  • Catering: full-board

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Montenegro by bicycle (1 week)

Sveti Stefan
Kotor Bay
  • Character: On this tour you explore the coast of Montenegro, the youngest state of the world. Departure point of this journey is Dubrovnik, one of the most beautiful towns in the Adriatic and a listed World Heritage site; on account of its historical importance it is often called the "Athens of Croatia".

  • Highlights: the Old town of Dubrovnik, the bay of Kotor, the Skutari lake

  • Requirements: Level 2-3. The tour belongs to the more fastidious routes of our program. The daily routes of 30 to 50 km lead through hilly and mountainous terrain, but will be completed wiithout any time-constraints.

  • Ship: Otac Nikola (max. 30 participants)

  • Duration of the tour: 1 week. You can combine this trip with our tour "Dalmatia from Dubrovnik"

  • Catering: half-board

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Cyclade Islands by bicycle - The heart of Greece (1 week)

Mykonos mit Pelikan Petras
Griechischer Kaffee
  • Character: The Cyclade Islands are the heart of the Greek archipelagos. Nowhere else Greece is more typical than here. Gleaming white cubic houses with blue shutters and labyrinth lanes give the typical architectonic flavour to the island towns. On your one week trip you will get to know the nothern islands of this archipelago, which is the cradle of the first European civilised society 5,000 years ago. Significant monuments of the eventful history make this journey a great experience as well as the varied landscape.
  • Highlights: The Chora of Seriphos, the classic old town of Ermoupolis on Syros, the sanctuary of Apollo on Delos Island, little Venice on Mykonos, the dove towers of Tinos, the archaic lion on Kea
  • Requirements: Level 2-3. Mainly short, partly ambitious tours through hilly or mountainious area, only on asphalted roads.
  • Ship: Panagiota
  • Duration of the tour: 1 week
  • Catering: 7 x half board (breakfast and lunch), 2 x dinner on board

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The homeland of Odysseus - Ionian Islands by bicycle (1 week)

Zakynthos beach with ship's wreck
Greek Kafenion
  • Character: Among the Ionian Islands as considerable islands rank as Corfu and Kefallonia. On the bicycle tours you become acquainted with Greece from its greenest side. Nature lovers come fully at their expense. But not only the breath-robbing nature, but also the fantastic sand beaches and the lively ports, in which the long presence of the Venetians left a still noticeable Italian flar, make this journey expressed varied.

  • Highlights: the island of Kephallonia with its harbour town Fiskardo and its phantastic mountain world, the remoted island of Ithaca, which is supposed to be the homeland of the hero Odysseus, the Old town of Corfu, the beach Porto Katsiki on Lefkas

  • Requirements: Level 2 to 3. Combination of shorter and longer, partially more fastidious routes by hilly to mountainous area, exclusive on asphalted roads.

  • Ship: Panagiota (max. 20 participants).

  • Duration of the tour: 1 week.

  • Catering: 7 x half-board, 2 x dinner on board

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Central Greek Aegean by bicycle (1 week)

Leros Windmühlen
Katzen in Pythagorion
  • Character: On this tour you explore the northern Dodecanese-Islands. The beauty of the landscape of the region is fascinating and offers lots of insights into the rural live of Greece. The region is rich of antique sights and legends: enthusiasts of the old Greek culture will get their money worth on that tour.
  • Highlights: the Asclipion of Kos, the cave of the Apocalypse and the St.-John´s-Monastery on Patmos Island, the tunel of Eupalinus and the Sanctuary of Hera on Samos Island
  • Requirements: Level 2. Bike tours lead hrough hilly and mountainous area on mostly asphalted roads. There is never any time-constraint while cycling.
  • Ship: Sunworld IX
  • Duration of the tour: 1 week. You can combine this tour with our trip "South Greek Aegean" or "South Coast of Turkey".
  • Catering: half-board

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South Greek Aegean by bicycle (1 week)

Bahriyeli on Symi island
Rhodes
  • Character: This tour consists mainly of longer and more challenging cyclings on the southern Dodecanese Islands. The landscape is very attractive: The Islands of Rhodes and Symi delight with their diversified nature, guests, who are interested in geology will have a highlight with the volcanic island of Nissiros. Concerning the cultural aspects the focus is mainly on the medieval and new history of Greece. The crusaders, who had their headquarter on Rhodes island, left impressing buildings.
  • Highlights: the harbour of Symi, the monastery of Panormitis on Symi Island, the volcano of Nissiros, the Acropolis of Lindos and the crusader´s town and Palace of the Grand Master in Rhodes.
  • Requirements: Level 2-3. through hilly and mountainious area, mainly on asphalted roads. The tour belongs to the more challenging trips of our program.
  • Ship: Bahriyeli (max. 22 participants)
  • Duration of the tour: 1 week. The tour can be combined with our tour to the "South Coast of Turkey" or the tour "Central Greek Aegean".

  • Catering: half-board

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South coast of Turkey by bicycle (1 week)

TRS Tombs
TRS Dolphin
  • Character: This route leads along the Turkish south coast and into the Turkish inland. On this journey intensive experiencing of nature is the center of attention, you receive deep views of the traditional rural life of Turkey. Rich certifications of the Lycian past, like the 2400 years of old rock graves of Kaunos ensure for the fact that also culture lovers come at their expense.
  • Highlights: the Sakklikent-Canyon, the rock graves of Kaunos, the abandoned, old Greek city Kayakoey, the lagoon of Oeluedeniz, the Bazar of Marmaris
  • Requirements: Level 2-3. Predominantly longer, partially more challenging routes by hilly to mountainious area, predominantly on asphalted roads. Occasionally also nature ways are driven on. The wheel distances are altogether more fastidious than those on our journeys in the Greek Aegean.
  • Ship: Bahriyeli (max. 22 participants)
  • Duration of the tour: 1 week. The journey is combinably with our journey Southern Greek Aegean from Marmaris to Rhodes or the tour Central Greek Aegean from Bodrum.
  • Catering: half-board

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South coast of Turkey by mountain bike (1 week)

Biker
Snail
  • Character: This tour is a mountain bike variant of our classical bicycle tour to the South Coast of Turkey and will be performed on the same boat at the same time. The starting point as well as the destination of the daily routes are the same, but as a mountain biker you will often ride off-road and you will explore Turkey in a very intensive way on remoted paths.

  • Highlights: theSakklikent canyon, the rock tombs of Kaunos, the abandoned, old Greek city  Kayaköy, the lagoon of Oeluedeniz, the bazar of Marmaris

  • Requirements: Level 2-3. The daily routes of averaged 40 km lead through hilly and mountainous area. Participants will also have to master long and steep climbs, but will be able to complete the tours without any time-constraints.

  • Sship: Bahriyeli (1 week)

  • Duration of the tour: 1 week. You can combine this trip wiith our bicycle tour "Southern Greek Aegean" or the tour "Central Greek Aegean".

  • Catering: half-board

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Vietnam by bicycle (2 weeks)

Vietnam Van Don Island
Vietnam cycling tour
  • Character: Vietnam is a country full of originality, overwhelming nature and mysterious monuments of times gone by. It is a country full of contrasts, with bustling, vibrant cities and rural districts where time seems to have stood still. Experience 2 weeks of Oriental flair and discover by bike and boat this fascinating country at the other side of the world.

  • Highlights: the traditionell water-pupet-theater, the famous Ha Long Bay Bucht, the Old towns of Hue and Hoi an, the cosmopolitan city of Saigon, the water labyrinth of the Mekong delta

  • Requirements: Level 1-2. The bike tours are not too challenging, therefore the tour belongs to one of the easiest of our program. The daily routes of approx. 25 km lead mostly through flat or hilly terrain and will be completed without any time-constraint.

  • Accomodation: 3 x on a traditional Dschunk in Ha Long Bay, 2 x on the boat Le Conchinchine in the Mekong Delta, 8 x accomadtion in comfortable hotels (at least ***-hotels)

  • Duration of the tour: 2 weeks

  • Catering: partly half-board and partly full-board

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Seychelles by bicycle - the summer route (11 days/10 nights)

Seychelles
children on the Seychelles
  • Character: The islands of the Seychelles are scattered across the Indian Ocean like a string of diamonds. The delicate coconut trees complete the lovely landscape together with the sculptured granite rocks and the white beaches – a true dream that one can still genuinely experience nowadays.

  • Highlights: the smallest capital of the world Victoira, the Morne Seychellois National park on Mahé island, the tortoise island Curieuse, the island of La Digue, the exotic undersea world of the Indian Ocean

  • Requirements: Level 1-2. One of the easiest tours of our program. The longest bicycle route is approx. 45 km (28 mi.) long. The streets are mostly asphalted and therefore well accessible. Up to 70% of the tours are along the coast line on flat to light hilly roads. In between you will face steep, but short up hill climbs.

  • Ship: SY Sea Star or SY Sea Bird

  • Duration of the tour: 11 days / 10 nights

  • Catering: full-board (lunches contain also lunch boxes or barbecue ashore)

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Seychelles by bicycle - the winter route (10 days/9 nights)

Seychelles
Coconut palm on the Seychelles
  • Character: Do you like to discover with Islandhopping the Seychelles, one of the last paradises on earth, during winter, when it is cold in Europe but still warm on the Seychelles? The end of the trip is a day shorter than our summer trip due to the monsoon coming from the north east. Nevertheless none of the sights worth seeing are missed out.

  • Highlights: the smallest capital of the world Victoira, the Morne Seychellois National park on Mahé island, the tortoise island Curieuse, the island of La Digue, the exotic undersea world of the Indian Ocean

  • Requirements: Level 1-2. One of the easiest tours of our program. The longest bicycle route is approx. 45 km (28 mi.) long. The streets are mostly asphalted and therefore well accessible. Up to 70% of the tours are along the coast line on flat to light hilly roads. In between you will face steep, but short up hill climbs.

  • Ship: SY Sea Star or SY Sea Bird

  • Duration of the tour: 10 days / 9 nights

  • Catering: full-board (lunches contain also lunch boxes or barbecue ashore)

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