Wild Guided Tours on Bicycle of Germany抯 Black Forest

There are many ways to visit Germany and it抯 an oft visited country when people travel to Europe. But have you

considered the guided tours on bicycle of the famous and beautiful Black Forest of Germany抯 Bavarian region. Bicycling

only gets you so far in one day but it allows you to see a side of the old time Germany that few people get a glimpse of.

Perhaps the best news about taking one of the guided tours of Germany on a bicycle is that you don抰 need to be a world

class cyclist to do this tour. The tours generally start at a village at the top of one of the Black Forest抯 mountains and

the ride is all downhill from there. You needn抰 take your bicycle or even a helmet. The tour guides have all of that for

you, although you are welcome to bring some of your own gear. Bringing your bicycle, however, would be a challenge, as

you抣l soon see.

You won抰 likely be flying directly into the Black Forest as it抯 relatively isolated from that sort of travel. Instead,

most guided tours of the Black Forest will have you fly into Frankfurt Airport, take the subway to the train station and

hop on the nearest train headed south. As you can see, hauling your bike just this far is a little bit cumbersome, don抰

you think? Other guided tours will fly you into Strasbourg, just across the border in France.

Your train ride either way will likely lead you to Offenburg, the nearest big town to where you抣l begin your ride.

Some guided tours of the Black Forest will pick you up there while others will have you take a taxi or smaller train to a

village like Lossburg. Lossburg is truly a representative sample of small town Germany, with Bavarian style homes, some

of which are bed and breakfast homes that you抣l stay in.

Most guided tours really get started after a healthy, filling breakfast in your home-style dwelling. Don抰 count on your

hosts to speak English so a little German learned beforehand will come in handy. Your tour guide will bring the bikes and

helmets and, while some will bike with you, others will just give you a map梐ll in German. Either way, soon you抣l be

sailing along a paved or dirt-packed trail, deep within the magnificent forest.

Perhaps you抣l be on one of the guided tours of the Neckar Valley or one of several other valleys in the great, untouched

forest. Every few hours or so, you抣l reach a little village that will make you feel you抳e gone back in time. Your

luggage will be transported to your next overnight location so you can enjoy the monasteries, breweries and little shops

with souvenirs you can pack in your backpack. There抯 at least one small, hometown restaurant in every village where the

food is cheap and authentically Bavarian.

Back on your bikes, you can抰 get lost because, if you抮e not going downhill,you抮e headed in the wrong direction.

Over a four to five day period of time, you抣l find yourself back in Offenburg where you抣l give up your bikes and perhaps

take a train ride over to Strasbourg for some French cuisine and more

The guided tours of the Black Forest often offer such a trip as a nice way to round out your tour. In the end, you抣l have

seen a rare gem in the Black Forest of Germany and you抣l be more physically fit in the process.

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Thrilling Guided Tours on Bicycle of South New Zealand

There are few things as breathtaking and exhilarating as traveling with one of several outstanding guided tours on bicycle of

New Zealand. New Zealand is comprised of two major islands, the North Island and the South Island. Of the two, the South

Island offers a more rustic look at the countryside as it rushes beneath your feet on a bicycle. This type of guided tour

is not for the casual cyclist. Hills and mountains are part of the landscape and, while you can walk these areas, it抯 better if you抳e worked out on a

bicycle a little bit beforehand.

One of the nicest guided tours of the South Island of New Zealand begins when you land in Christchurch. This large city is

the take off point for many who are going to Antarctica, so if you have time between flights, take a tour of the Antarctic

Centre, just a couple of blocks from the airport. It抯 a museum of sorts about exploration in Antarctica.

Most likely, guided tours of the South Island won抰 actually start in Christchurch and you抣l be taking a propeller

plane (yes, a propeller plane) over the vast and enormous mountain range that runs down the middle of the island and you抣l

arrive at a spit of an airport in a village like Hokitika, where the bicycling really begins.

Some may ask why there are guided tours of this part of New Zealand at all because there is really only one main road

traveling south along the shoreline of the rustic and wild Tasman Sea. You can抰 get lost. Even so, the tour guides will

carry extra food and will probably have a bike trailer to pick up the bikes of stragglers that can抰 finish the day抯 ride.

The riders take off in the direction of the guide and move along at their own pace.

It抯 very easy to see why there are guided tours of this part of the country. The mountains are ever-present on your left,

there are beautiful, unspoiled forests and the rivers run clear and are of a striking aqua color due to the mineral content

of the water coming off the mountains. Remember, though, they drive on the opposite side of the road as in the US so you

have to train your mind to watch for any traffic accordingly.

In truth, there is very little traffic and bicycles own the road on most guided tours of the South Island. One can bicycle

three full days without ever seeing even a small village. Instead, there are bed and breakfast inns or small motels along

the way and many meals can be made by the tour guide.

If you抮e on one of these guided tours of New Zealand, you抣l not only see Mount Hercules but you抣l feel like Hercules

(or very tired) after climbing the impressive mountain. And don抰 forget the exhilaration of riding back down. One of

the other highlights of your tour will be the Franz Josef Glacier, south of Whataroa. It抯 a gigantic dirty piece of ice

dangling in the crevice between two mountains. Still, it抯 an impressive site to see.

Most guided tours of this type will allow you to travel 500 km (300 miles) in about a week. You抣l be on the bicycle much

of the time but viewing this magnificent scenery from this vantage point can抰 be beat. At the end of your tour, you can

fly home via Queensland, in the southern part of the island.

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