Poland Biking

Krakow

We’ll meet at our arrival hotel at 2:00 and enjoy a short warm-up ride on quite roads and paths through the Old Town. We’ll have dinner in a restaurant that first opened in 1364 and then take in some live jazz  for which Krakow is famous.

Lipnica Gospoda

Start the day riding out to the salt mine at Wieliczka, a UNESCO  listed site; this site has operated since the Middle Ages and the museum includes carved chapels and other artistic treasures. From here we pass characteristic villages and the first of many wooden churches. Arrive to Nowy Wisnicz where we’ll visit the castle and overnight at Hotel Gospoda Pod Kamieniem.

Znamirowice

Wooden churches were often sponsored by nobles- there are over 250 of them in this region of Poland including 6 that are listed monuments with Unesco. We’ll pass several including Lipnica Murowana before reaching Roznowski Lake. Lunch will be in Tropie. A longer ride will take you around the lake, finishing at teh Hotel Farma Zdrowia.

Lake Czorsztn

On this day, we’ll make our way to Stary Sacz, a historic town and one of the most beautiful in southern Poland. The ride passes granaries and hen-houses through an area known as the Dunajec Gorge. Overnight near charming Lake Czorsztyn.

Czorsztyn 

Taking advantage of a cycle path that follows the Dunajec River, but to start the day, we take a boat cruise to Kroscienko. From here we’ll cycle into Slovakia to the village of Cerveny Klastor (Red Monastery), where Carthusian monks lived for centuries conceale from the outside world. This part of the country was at one time Hungary.

Nowy Targ 

Leaving Czorsztyn, we’ll cycle to Debno, one of the oldest wooden churches in Poland. We’ll stop to taste the ‘Oscypek’, a delicious ewe’s milk cheese and make our way to Nowy Targ (New Market) which has had a market for 500 years. It’s not to be missed and we’ll join in the festivities here.

Bus transfer to Krakow takes 1 hour.