Living history, landscape to breathe deeply.

Danzig, Marienburg and Masurian Lakescape guided tour.

From your tour guide you will definitely get to know quite a lot about land and people! Town stories in Danzig and Warsaw, cultural stories in Marienburg and Rastenburg and landscape stories in Ermland and Masuren are waiting for interested listeners and curious observers. On the bike you will experience this unique landscape on wonderful bike paths. Discover the nature during boat trips and on a canoe tour.

1. day  Danzig Arrival

You catch up with your tour guide at the hotel in Danzig at 14:30 a.m.. ou will start your tour by feet through the exemplary restored Old Town. In the evening you will enjoy dinner in a very good restaurant in the city.

2. day  Malbork (Marienburg) / Elblag, about 37 km

By train you get to Malbork (Marienburg). After visiting the mightful fortification from the middle ages from the inside, you will do a first bike trip in the surroundings of Marienburg. After that a short transfer to Elbing follows.

3. day  Frombork (Frauenburg) about 40 km

In the morning you enjoy a boat trip on lake Druzno where you can observe lots of different water birds and on the famous Oberlaender Channel – a technical highlight from 19th century. In the afternoon you arrive at Frombork where you listen to a short presentation of the famous organ in the Frombork dome.

4. day  Bartoszyce (Bartenstein) about 55 km

After a visit of the famous Frauenburg cathedral and of a tower of the surrounding wall in which Nikolaus Kopernikus lived and worked for 30 years for you cycle through the Ermland to Orneta (Wormditt). There you will visit St. Johann Church from 1379 before a bus will take you to Bartoszyce (Bartenstein) (bus transfer 65 km).

5. day  Ketrzyn (Rastenburg) about 60 km

Today you cycle to the Trakehner stud in Liski (Liesken), along the Dönhoff family land and castle and through silent nature, which will just be cut in by the clattering of storks. In the end of the day you arrive at Ketrzyn (Rastenburg).

6. day  round trip Reszel (Rössel) about 50 km

On this round trip you visit the famous baroque church of Swieta Lipka where you listen to a short organ concert. The following bike tour leads you to the small town of Reszel with it's impressive medieval castle.

7. day  Gizycko (Lötzen) about 55 km

After a short transfer by bus you visit the “Wolfsschanze” (Hitlers headquarters in East Prussia) where the bomb attack of a resistance group of german officers failed on the 20th of july 1944. The following bike tour brings you to Gizycko the “capital” of Masuren.

8. day  Krutyn (Kruttinnen) about 40 km

Delight yourself on the great boat trip through the lakes of Masuren to Szymonka. From there you continue on the bikes to Mikolajki (Nikolaiken) – the “Venice of the North” and watersports centre of Masuren. In the afternoon you cycle through the "Masurian country Park" to Krutyn.

9. day  Krutyn/Canoe tour 20 km

A round trip leads you through beautiful nature reserves and to Krutynia river. Here a special experience awaits you: a canoe tour on the crystal clear river (no further knowledge necessary). It is one of the most beautiful rivers in Masuria. You will enjoy the evening at a bonfire with accordion music.

10. day  Warschau/Abreise

After breakfast you go to Warsaw by bus. In a 3 hours guided tour you visit the old city centre and the former jewish ghetto. This guided tour ends at Warsaw main station and marks the end of your bike holidays.