Added: 11/30/2005 |
Mountain bike tours around EuropeMountain bike tours are a grand way to enjoy a nice exercise and see natural attractions using all the freedom you can get. You can go for it on your own or take a guided mountain bike tour and enjoy a premier mountain bike experience.
On a guided tour you will be supplied with a mountain bike, helmet, water bottle, transportation, sometimes a box lunch on a full day tour plus a local guide who will share the history of the area and offer instruction in mountain bike techniques and trail etiquette. With a guide's help you can take half or full day, multi-day and customized mountain bike tours & vacations for every ability level from the first time leisure rider to advanced single-track rider.
There are many great mountain bike tours worldwide. Different countries offer different mountain bike trails along the nature attractions and city sites. Fat Tire Bike Tours has become one of the largest, if not the largest, independent bicycle tour in Europe. Many know it as Mike's Bike Tours, but the rapid growth and variety of tours has led to new name new sizes of the bike tires. If you have two legs and can ride a bike, you can do mountain bike tours.
The next time your travels take you to Paris, Vienna, Budapest, Atlanta, Chicago or Washington D.C. join the City Segway Tours which are an extension of an already successful recipe used by Fat Tire Bike Tours. When traveling around Europe, be sure to visit the Fat Tire Bike Tours in Berlin, Barcelona and Paris. On the tour you'll get the company of an expert guide, the use of a super-comfortable bike, great tips and advice about what to do while in town, an exciting, informative and educational experience and a chance to meet other fun travelers. Enhancing the native cultural and historical interest of the cities toured is the knowledgeable team of guides. You can ride at a nice, relaxed pace, and make stops every few kilometers at points of interest along the way.
In Paris you can chose from a number of Fat Tire Bike Tours options. A Paris Bicycle Day Tour is a fabulous way to see Paris. Highlights include: The Eiffel Tower, Napoleon's Tomb, the Louvre Museum, the Arc de Triomphe, Ecole Militaire, the Rodin Museum, and more! It's about 4 hours long.
The tour of Barcelona is normally about 4 - 4 ½ hours long and in this time you ride through the Barri Gotic, to the Sagrada Familia, the beach and Port Vell, stopping along the way at points of interest to take pictures. You'll ride mainly on bike paths and boardwalks, down alleyways and through parks, so you can just pedal and enjoy the ride.
In Berlin you can join either Berlin City Bike Tour or Berlin Wall Bike Tour and see the unique facets of Berlin that only the freedom of a bike can provide. You'll have a chance to stop at all sights on the route, not just pass them by. Feel free to question your guide on history, nightlife or lifestyle.
The Berlin Wall Bike Tour is a comprehensive tour that covers why Berlin was divided and how, the Berlin Airlift, tales of espionage, the downfall of communism, how Berlin is dealing with its past, and much more.
No matter what city you end up touring, Fat Tire Bike Tours of Europe will add memorable impressions that will not be easily forgotten.
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