Through the land of water.
In the area around Berlin a unique lakes landscape is awaiting you! Beautiful lakes and waterways with a length of more than 6000 kilometres are typical for this region. You visit proud palaces and traditional cities as Oranienburg and Potsdam. Experience an attractive mix between nature and culture where you also cycle along the tracks of the past German east & west cultural relationship.
Dates
01.05.2010-02.10.2010
arrival every Saturday
Tour course
Day 1: Berlin - Centre
Individual journey to Spandau. Embarkation until 4.00 pm. Cruise right into the centre of Berlin, where you win your first impressions of Germany’s largest metropolis.
Day 2: Berlin – Potsday approx. 50 km
See more of Berlin during the guided cycle tour of the city. Follow the traces of Prussian history; see relics of the German-German iron curtain including buildings of the ancient DDR regime. Either you cycle to Potsdam or you join the boat to the ancient Prussian residential city.
Day 3: Potsdam – Brandenburg a.d. Havel approx. 60 km
Cycle through unspoilt countryside of the Lakes Havelseen. Visit castle Caputh on Lake Schwielowsee with magnificent ball room, brilliantly painted ceilings and antique furniture. Via Werder on Lake Großer Plessower See (old town on an island) and Lake Rietzer See you reach Brandenburg on Havel.
Day 4: Brandenburg a.d. Havel – Hennigsdorf/Oranienburg approx. 50 km
By boat on river Havel to Ketzin. A quaint little town with rambling alleys nestling in unspoilt nature. Here endangered species as e.g. kingfishers, otters and swamp-tortoises find a refuge. Mount your bicycle and cycle via Wustermark and Schönwalde to Hennigsdorf. Here one of the watchtowers, once guarding the German-German border, was converted into a museum.
Day 5: Hennigsdorf/Oranienburg – Zehdenick approx. 50 km
After a short cycle tour you reach Oranienburg. Castle Oranienburg is the most important baroque style building on Mark Brandenburg. Visit the substantial exhibition of paintings and everyday-life in the days of electors. Cycle past Lake Dretsee and through Löwenberger country to castle Meseberg on Lake Huwenow – today a guest-house of the German government. Little town Gransee is a further stop before you reach Zehdenick.
Day 6: Zehdenick – Rheinsberger Lakes – Zehdenick approx. 45 km
Transfer by bus to Rheinsberg. Many smaller and larger lakes, pinetree forests and scattered moors form the Rheinsberger Lake District. Cycle to Fürstenberg. Return to Zehdenick by bus. Stop at the brickworks park, a German industrial monument which you explore by historic train-lorries.
Day 7: Zehdenick – Spandau approx. 40 km
Along river Havel you cycle via Liebenwalde to Oranienburg. By boat from Hennigsdorf on Lake Tegeler See to Spandau.
Day 8: Spandau
Tour completed after breakfast.
Route features
Flat to slightly undulating country. Sometimes you cycle on forest paths.
Map
Discover the region (Google Maps)
Prices
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Basic price |
819,-
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Surcharge single cabin |
500,-
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High season surcharge (15.05.-18.09.) |
80,-
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Rental bicycle 7-gears |
55,-
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special offer price 2-bed cabin 29.05. + 05.06. |
666,-
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special offer price Single cabin 29.05. + 05.06. |
899,-
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special offer price 2-bed cabin 28.08. + 04.09. |
666,-
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special offer price Single cabin 28.08.+ 04.09. |
1.099,-
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Child reduction on request.
Extra nights
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Basic price |
Single surch. |
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Berlin
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57,-
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45,-
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All prices per person in Euro
Services
- Accommodation in outside cabins (en suite toilet/shower)
- 7 x full board (breakfast, lunch or packed lunch, cofe and cake, dinner)
- Daily cabin cleaning service
- Daily tour information
- Maps and route description
- All harbour, locks and bridge dues
- Welcome drink information meeting on the first evening
- Guided cycle city tour of Berlin
- Transfers to Rheinsberger Lakes
