Guided and SAG bike tour through 3 countries: Croatia, Montenegro, Bosnia & Herzegovina.
Cycling west Balkan triangle - Guided tour - 8 days

8 days / 7 nights
Locations

Croatia, Montenegro, Bosnia & Herzegovina
Description

The cycling tour of the west Balkan triangle is a tour designed for small groups of cyclists and it is a guided SAG tour (it includes car and gear support).
This tour takes place in 3 different countries: Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro.
Start & end in Dubrovnik
Daily cycling distances: 40 – 75 km, cycling difficulty: moderate with some challenging parts
Type of cycling: Road cycling (trekking, or road bikes).
Groups: 4 – 16 (preferable) for the guided tours.
Type of the accommodation: 3/4* hotels
Travel magazines about our tour
Far & Wide: https://www.farandwide.com/s/bike-tours-europe-db2cbfa25109496e
Perceptive travel about this tour: http://www.perceptivetravel.com/issues/0917/balkans.html
Croatia – Montenegro – Bosnia & Herzegovina The cycling tour in west Balkan and Mediterranean part of Europe is cycling through one of the most spectacular places in the Europe. This fantastic area spread over the hills and mountains of the Dinarids, along the seashores settled by medieval towns, picturesque villages and valleys in Bosnia. On this tour, you visit 3 countries: Croatia, Montenegro, Bosnia & Herzegovina and you explore most interesting sights of it. This holiday combine rides on the scenic and interesting routes into Bosnian and Montenegro mountains, by the sea, through remote towns and villages. This is a trip for the nature and history lovers, cyclists who prefer daily longer distances with some challenging parts, awarded with spectacular views.
4 and more people on this tour can book independent departure dates during the period from 1 April to 1 November, price on request.
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1st day: arrival
2nd day: cycling from Dubrovnik to Herceg Novi (through Bosnian territory)
Cycling distance: 65km, elevation gain: 910m.
Breakfast in the hotel, a short ride to the outskirts of the city where we will start our cycling tour, cycling in the direction of the border with Bosnia and Herzegovina and the town of Trebinje.
Cycling through the hillside part of the triangle of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Croatia, in the direction of the town of Herceg Novi, located on the Montenegrin coast.
Overnight stay at a 3/4* hotel in the Herceg Novi area.
Meal plan: breakfast (B), lunch (L) (snacks)
3rd day: Montenegrin coast (from Herceg Novi along the Bay of Kotor to the town of Kotor), cycling distance: 42km, elevation gain 150m.
Breakfast in the hotel, check out.
Cycling along the coastal area of the Bay of Kotor (Montenegro's fjord) to the town of Kotor. The bike ride will mainly be on flat terrain. We will follow the road along the Bay of Kotor, which passes through medieval historical towns. After a short stop in the town of Kotor, we will cycle back to our hotel.
Overnight stay at a 3* hotel in the area of the town of Kotor.
Meal plan: breakfast (B) + lunch, snacks
4th day: Montenegro – Croatia (Gruda, Konavle)
Biking, wine tasting and traditional lunch at the farm
Distance 55 km, elevation gain 520 m
After breakfast and check out from the hotel, we continue with bike ride along the bay in direction to border crossing with Croatia. Once we cross the border we ride through Konavle countryside, very picturesque area between mountains and Adriatic Sea.
- Todays ride we finish at local farm in Konavle valley where we have traditional lunch, wine tasting and tasting of local products, dry figs, cheese, prosciutto…
- Overnight in Cavtat area 3* hotel.
- Meal plan: Breakfast (B), Lunch (L) and wine tasting
5th day: Croatia - Bosnia - Herzegovina, cycling on the old railroad trail
Brgat – Zavala (Bosnia and Hercegovina)
Cycling distance 40 km, elevation gain 120 m
Today, after the breakfast we start bike ride from the coastal town Cavtat to hilly part of Bosnia Herzegovina, once we cross the border in town Ivanica we continue ride on the old rail road along valley of Popovo polje and river Trebisnjica. This area was war zone in the 90s, there are still many evidence along the route about those days. Besides interesting historical facts, this part of the road has very beauty and different landscape then coastal area.
Arrival to small village Zavala or Ravno in the afternoon, free time. Overnight in cozy B&B (Ex Train station, turned into small hotel).
Overnight at Zavala or Ravno
Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch (L)
6th day: Zavala – Ston (Bosnia & Herzegovina back to Croatia),
Biking, olive oil tasting, traditional lunch, visit olive oil farm
Bike ride 40 km, elevation gain 630 m.
Today we cycle along the valley and rural areas in Herzegovina towards border with Croatia, peninsula Peljesac and town of Ston. This area is famous with few things: town Ston is medieval walled town with longest city walls in Europe, it is first town in Peljesac peninsula where they produce excellent red wines, around town Ston there are bays with oysters and mussels farms.
Today’s ride is one of the shortest, but it is hilly part with nice climbs and downhills.
Upon arrival to Ston we cycle to the Olive oil farm where we have tour on the farm, trough olive garden and tasting olive oil and homemade products. At farm we have light lunch based on the olive oil as the main ingredient of the food we going to taste on this farm. After this unique experience we ride to our hotel in Ston.
Free time in Ston, possible oyster tasting and sailing trip to the oyster farms, or swimming, hiking on the Ston walls.
Overnight in 3*hotel in Ston
Meal plan: B, L
7th day: Ston – along Peljesac peninsula to vineyards of Peljesac
Biking distance 50 km, elevation gain 900 m.
Biking, visit wine yards of Peljesac and visit local wine producer in town Kuna, where we have traditional lunch and tasting of local wines and liquers
Cycling along Peljesac peninsula is one most scenic bike ride on the Mediterranean, it has everything, nice roads by the, spectacular views to the islands and open sea, scenic roads through wine yards and through old villages or towns in hidden bays.
Last biking day finish in rural part of Peljesac peninsula, surround by wine yards in picturesque town Kuna where at local farm we try home made products, cheese, dry figs, sausages, pickled vegetables …
At this farm we finish the ride and we have a shuttle (minibus) drive to Dubrovnik, arrival in Dubrovnik in the evening hours.
Dinner with group and overnight in 3/4*hotel in Dubrovnik
Overnight: Dubrovnik
Meal plan: B, D (Dinner)
8th day: departure
Breakfast in the hotel and a morning shuttle to the Dubrovnik Airport.