Rügen: round trip

Look forward to this beautiful Hanseatic city and discover the worth seeing gable town hall, the market square with the Hanseatic renovated gable and patrician houses and visit the interesting museum of cultural history, the gives deep insight into the history of the city and Pomerania.

With a wonderful cruise to the small and famous island Hiddensee start your cycle tour. Explore by bike the small village, today with museum, island church and captain-house it is the cultural center of the island and also resort, artist colony and farming . Marvel at the 28 m high lighthouse and watch in peace cranes, geese, ducks and waders before you transfer to Schaprode and with the ferry in Wittow (not inclusive) to the Northern part of Rügen. Overnight in a historic manor in the quiet northeast of the island.

Silent on country roads, roads with little traffic and along the coast you explore on your round tour the peninsula Wittow. Discover small and pompous estates and mansions and look forward to the memorial area Cape Arkona, that extends idyllic 45 m beyond the Baltic Sea. Marvel at the square lighthouse which was designed by Karl Schinkel Friedich, the castle wall from the 12th century and the fishing village of Vitt.

Today you cycle south. Enjoy the beautiful bike ride on the narrow, pine tree covered piece of land between the Baltic Sea and Bodden. Take a short coffee stop at the Schlosshotel Spyker before you cycle to Lohme to be guest at the Golf Hotel Schloss Ranzow. Just as the fancy takes you, you can visit the National Park Königsstuhl. Located on the famous chalk cliffs and the UNESCO World Heritage Ancient Beech Forests, the National Park center provides with 2000 m2 of exhibition space and 28,000 m2 outdoor area a very special experience.

In the morning you can look forward to the bike course through the National Park Jasmund, with its ancient beech trees. Via Sassnitz with its pretty port and Mukran you cycle to the most famous seaside resorts of the island in Binz and on to Putbus. Enjoy the wonderful wihte sand beach, the sun and the sea before you cycle past Granitz hunting lodge the romantic Stresower Bay to Lauterbach neat Putbus. Let yourself be pampered in the Goor bathhouse like the princes once did, as the bathhouse was built by the Princes to Putbus for privileged audience of the German and European nobility.

Today you discover the southern tip of the island of Rügen, the so-called Mönchgut. Once the monks linving there wanted to separate the land from Rügen by a ditch between Selliner See and the Baltic Sea, but the ditch was never completed. The landscape of the Reddevitzer Höft runs towards the Stresower Bay. Today you explore the landscape with its seaside, resorts, bays, hills, cliffs and beaches and return to your quarters in Lauterbach.

Enjoy Putbus, the cultural capital of the island. Marvel at the Putbuser market, stables and the orangery and visit the Putbuser Park with its deer park and the artificial island which was created in 1725 and has the size of approximately 75 hectares. Through the southern part of Rügen you cycle then along quiet bike paths back to Stralsund.

All too soon the time passed, after breakfast your cycling tour ends back in Stralsund.