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Mosel Valley Trier - Bernkastel - Cochem - Koblenz and then along the romantic middle Rhine over Boppard to Rüdesheim

Tour C 8 Days

Our program Mosel from Trier to Koblenz the River Rhine to Rüdesheim

• Trier
  Your own jorney into the more than 2000 years old city Trier, the oldest city of Germany. The next international airport is Frankfurt, from Frankfurt to Trier 2 hours by car or train. Your bicycle is available in your hotel. Greetings and welcome drink in the hotel, thereafter you have time for your own sightseeing of the history from Trier. Walk in "2000 steps into 2000 years history".
  
  
• Trier - Trittenheim 40 kilometers
  In the morning after the breakfast you cycle comfortably to the bank of the Mosel, and evenly and flat goes it to the Mosel along. Here one of the most well-known areas of cultivation of wine of Germany already comes. In the old ferry tower in Schweich you can make a good break. Mehring has the reconstruction of the Roman mansion Rustica, which you should look at yourself. In Trittenheim a wine didactic exhibition informs about the working life of the winegrower, also about to the Mosel domestic wine parts and vine cultivation. Overnight accomodation in Trittenheim. Here in Trittenheim your accomodation is on a wine farmers home, and you enjoy a special wine test with typical wine from the Mosel valley in the wine farmers wineceller.
  
  
• Trittenheim - Zeltingen 40 kilometers
  The comfortable cycle track on which you comfortably cycle, follows the Mosel, and the bicycle rolls nearly from alone after Neumagen-Drohn, to the oldest wine place of Germany. Here in Neumagen-Drohn a Roman stone relief shows the famous wine ship. Because already the old Romans transported their wine on the Mosel with ships. In Piesport you can visit a reconstructed Roman Kelteranlage. At noon it is most beautifully natural time for an expanded break, on the market place of Bernkastel Kues, and also an expanded walk in the old and pretty village, with old frame work houses. The finish of the daily stage will be today in Zeltingen. Overnight accomodation in or near Zeltingen.
  
  
• Zeltingen - Zell 39 kilometers
  A good wine hill after the other one accompanies today your way to the Mosel. Kroever naked ass, "Kröver Nacktarsch", a special name, which one cannot translate so completely into English, is not only because of its special name world well-known. In Traben Trarbach you have opportunity to cost once of it. Enjoy you afterwards a relaxed ship tour on the Mosel. To a break in Enkirch, the best sightseeing of the framework architecture of the Mosel, you come to Zell. Also in Zell a special, world-well-known wine situation is, the Zeller black cat. "Zeller schwarze Katz". Try, because the wine of the Mosel is very good.
  Overnight accomodation in or near Zell
  
  
• Zell - Treis-Karden 38 kilometers
  After the good breakfast cycle you to the Mosel along, you come to the framework houses place Beilnstein, also "Rothenburg to the Mosel" called. Here you must make an visite. Later greets you from highly above the Reichsburg, a old castle, which you should see absolutely from the inside, It is appropriate above Cochem, make your bicycle a break, because it is only a short footpath to the Reichsburg, in its inside is a museum, where one can discover many historical things of theMiddle Age. And Cochem offers afterwards with its historical old part of town the possibility of making a break. After the break it continues to go then still much better on the bicycle to Treis - Karden.
  
  
• Treis-Karden - Koblenz / Boppard 55 kilometers
  Today you should drive to the castle Eltz, it are only a short piece of the Mosel far away, there can you in a very informative guidance much experience over the Middle Ages and the life from the middle age. The last kilometers to Koblenz slide only in such a way there. The "Deutsches Eck" at the meeting from mother Mosel and father Rhine naturally a perfect place for a break. But also the Kurfuerstliche Schloß, and the Festung Ehrenbreistein at the opposite Rhine bank are worth an inspection. Afterwards you ride now in the romantic middle Rhine Valley to Boppard. Boppard has a lot to offer in many respects both to residents and guests. In the course of history, all kinds of people have felt at home here, whether Celts, Romans or Franconians. All of them have left their mark on the 2000 year-old history of the town and at every turn there is witness in stone of their presence. The charming, unmistakable natural beauty of Boppard and its surroundings as well as the numerous monuments to its culture and history evoking memories of the different epochs of its history are called to mind as we take a walk through the town.
  
  
• Boppard - Rüdesheim 40 kilometers
  Today you follow now with your bicycle the romantic middle rhine. The valley from the rhine is now very smal, only the rocks left and right, the rhine, the train and the street. "A ship of stone, eternally afloat upon the Rhine, and eternally lying at anchor before the town of Pfalzgrafen" - thus Victor Hugo - this is the castle, Pfalz, formerly Pfalzgrafenstein, and one of the rarest of castle creations in the world. The countryside here along the river valley with the little town of Kaub and Burg Gutenfels above it has still maintained much of its romantic beauty. Visite maybe the old castle Reichenstein, and then you come to Bingen. After Bingen you changed the bank from the river rhine with ferry boat to Rüdesheim. In the afternoon you have time to visite Rüdesheim, and the Niederwald Monument. The monument symbolizes the re-establishment of the German Kaiser Reich (Imperial Kingdom) which was a direct result of the outcome of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 - 1871 which led to the unification of Germany under Prussian hegemony as an imperial monarchy. The main figure is that of Germania, the classical mythic female figure representing Germany One can reach the Niederwald Heights on foot, by car, or by cable car from Ruedesheim and Assmannshausen. The marvelous view of the Rheinland-Pfalz across the river from the monument is surely one of the most beautiful in the world, particularly at dawn, dusk and sunset, and also by night especially at full moon.
  
  
• Rüdesheim
  After the breakfast today your beautiful bicycle vacation ends along the turn-rich Mosel and romantic middle rhine. The departure is individual. From Rüdesheim you can in 30 minutes with the car or train to Frankfurt airport. And you have also from Rüdesheim with train very good connections national and international.

Included in this Tour:

• 7 overnight accommodations with breakfast in good hotels or guesthouses with privat bathroom, shower and toilett
• Wine test at a wine farmer from the Mosel
• Special detailed maps, descriptions and informations for your bicycle way
• Special detailed books and informations in english language for the historical citys and culture higlights on your way
• Luggage transfer all days from hotel to the next hotel
• Telephone assistance all days from 8am to 10pm for your questions, when you need help or information

This Tour can start all days between middle April and end of October 2012

Price per person

Options:    Rental bicycles 21-speed + 60,- € per person
                 Extra nights in Trier and all Villages along your way + 45,- € per person
                 Overnight in a old original castle on the river Rhine*** + 45,- € perperson