CHALLENGE
Independent Tour: 3,500 Chf
9 nights (Optional rest days)
Shorter tours possible.
Dates: March through October
BOOK TOURWe’ll be riding 80 kilometers each day over a variety of terrain.
There will be long flat sections and a few long climbs.
Expect to spend 4 to 7 hours in the saddle each day.
- Orientation and bicycle fitting at shop
- All accommodation in 3 and 4 star hotels
- All breakfasts
- Return train to Geneva or tickets to anywhere else in Switzerland
- All train tickets for Wengen and Return (if doing the hike)
- Return of bicycle to Geneva
- Turn-by-turn cellphone navigation
- Luggage transfers
Today you will pass four lakes and go through four cantons. The ride begins on hard dirty paths along the River Reuss. You are then in Zug, Switzerland’s smallest (but richest) canton. Picnic on the shores of the old town before climbing out and into the high marshlands of Rothenthurm. You will bike past peat-covered cabins and through rolling fields before reaching the Einsiedeln monastery.
From Einsiedeln, you have some climbing to do, but the payoff are spectacular views of Lake Zurich below. As always, well-maintained bike paths allow you to go where few tourists venture.
Coast downhill into Rapperswil and settle into your hotel in the town’s center. Lots of choices here: take a lakeside promenade, visit the church and monastery perched over the city, stroll through the reputed rose gardens, enjoy a circus museum, zoo, wine bars or nap.
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