Bikenlodge takes you out East to Slovenia's Julien Alps to take part in a week of biking, discovering Slovenia's most beautiful countryside and towns. Slovenia is a small country.
But its smallness is nothing else than an advantage. In a single day you can take a morning refreshment in the Adriatic Sea, enjoy the views from the blooming slopes of Alps in the afternoon and finish the day in vineyards drinking world-class merlot.
7 days bike tour, of adventure exploring Slovenia with our bike team. You will be mountain biking, threw different climate areas. Central, Alpine, sub-mediteranian and Mediteranean.
Refreshing swimming in the Alpine lakes and rivers, at the end of the journey, in te Adriatic sea. Tasting the local cousine, visit to wine cellar in Karst.
It's not all hard work, there will be shuttle all the time on the roads with you, if you get tired, need a quick repair service, we will be there for you! Also, the level of difficulty can be adjusted to your capabilities!
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Dates
Any dates in May to October2007
Weeks start any day, we organize special dates at your choice!
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Prices
710 Eur/person
Minumum 4 persons
Please send an e-mail to info@boardnlodge.com if you are not 4 persons, and would like to join with others to make up the course numbers.
Price does not include food, and drinks.
Bikenlodge »Cycling from the Julian Alps to the Adriatic sea« tour includes:
• 7 nights accommodation
• Return airport transfers
• In Resort transport, baggage transfer
• 6 days cycling tour including equipment and guide, full week shuttle transfers
Level
Beginner, Intermediate or Advanced.
Flights
Please find flights to Ljubjana, Slovenia with www.easyjet.com or www.ba.com.
Transfers
Please mail us your flight times and we will be there to meet you and drop you off.
Accommodation
You will be staying in hotel, apartments and rooms, visiting 6 different places on tour.
Itinerary:
Day 1: Transfer from Trieste or Ljubljana Airport
Acc at hostel Park (B&B),Ljubljana
Welcome drink, dinner and evening tour around the city-centre with a guide
Day 2: Cycling in Pokljuka plateau
Shuttle to lake Bled
Bike tour around lake Bled and ride –up to the Pokljuka plateau
Late aftrnoon arrival to appartment house in Bohinj (rooms b&b), just a three min walking distance to the lake Bohinj, offering an evening walk with graet views of of the Yulian Alps sunset in the lake mirror
Day 3: Martuljek waterfall, Kranjska gora and Vršič mountain pass
Shuttle to Kranjska Gora
Bike tour form Martuljek village threw Kranjska Gora (lake Jasna), continuing the ride up to Planica (the home of Slovenia ski-jumping), where the Alpine roads take you threw the Tamar valley.
Lunch at the local resturant in Rateče
Scenic drive acroos the Vrsic mountain pass. At 1500m (shuttle can drive you to the top), with downhill mountain-bike descent, cycling threw one of the most beautiful valleys in the Triglav national park-the Trenta valley to Bovec (eays-moderate)
late aftrnoon arrival to hotel Kanin, Bovec(rooms b&b)
Day 4: Soča river white-water day
rafting
afternoon bike tour down the Soča valley to next acc. –Most na Soči, hotel rooms
dinner
Day 5: Karst
All day bike tour:from Most na Soči to Postojna. From Alpine world of narrow gorges of the Soča river, to the vast Karst country side with wineyards hills.
stop for lunch in a traditional Karst local-food restaurant
arrival to a hotel in Postojna
(Late afternoon visit to Postojna cave) or a local wine cellar in the evening
Day 6: Portorož and Piran
bike tour from Postojna to the Slovenian coast, lower Karst
arrival to Piran, acc./rooms
dinner by the sea, fish-food restaurant
good bye drink
Day 7:
Airport transfer (Trieste or Ljubljana)