Travel details

Tour profile:

Level 2, the day-tours average 25 km and take you through mainly hilly terrain. There are also some extended climbs where walking your bike is of course permitted. Most of the roads are as-phalted. Your tour guide informs you each day about the tour details. You can set aside a whole or half-day for swimming or relaxing on board the boat whenever you want.

Day 1: Bodrum

Individual arrival at Izmir or Bodrum Airport and transfer to the ship in Bodrum. After checking in on board of the gulet, you have the opportunity to visit the picturesque port town of Bodrum. Dinner on board. Some passengers join the trip only late in the evening.

Day 2: Island of Kos (approx. 30km/19miles)

Cross over to Kos before lunch. The first cycle trip begins here and leads you through green fields to Tingaki Beach or to the Embros therm, where you have the opportunity to have your first swim in the Aegean You spend the evening in Kos, the lively capital of the island. On a tour through the town you come with each step across traces of the island’s great past. The Roman forum, the fortress of the Knights of  St. John, and the mosques from the time when Kos was part of the Ottoman empire stand shoulder to shoulder. You can end the evening relaxing in one of the town’s numerous bars and cafes.

Day 3: Island of Kalymnos (approx. 30km/19miles)

You start our cycle trip from the harbour Pothia, along the coast and later on through a sur-prisingly green and fertile valley to the quiet fishing village of Vathy, where you can have a coffee break in a cosy taverna. You take the same route back to Pothia and if you would like to cycle a little further you may take a trip to the Convent of Agioi Pantes, from where you have a brilliant view over the harbour. In the afternoon, you travel on with the ship towards Lipsi, where you stay overnight.

Day 4: Island of Lipsi (approx. 15km/9miles)

Lipsi with its quiet beaches and parts and its 55 churches, which has been largely spared from tourism, is a very worth-seeing island. After a short bike ride a beautiful, peaceful beach invites you to enjoy a long swim break. Later on you shouldn’t miss a visit to the wonderful confectionery in the harbour. In the afternoon crossing over to Patmos by boat, which can be seen from afar with its snow white upper town and its towering monastery.

Day 5: Island of Patmos (approx. 25km/16miles)

On a short but panoramic cycle route you visit the grotto, in which St. John during his banish-ment saw the apocalypse. The world famous St. John monastery of Hora, a village, which has a paradise-like peaceful atmosphere with its numerous white laneways and 33 churches and chapels, is the next stop on your cycle tour. From thereyou cycle along a wonderful beach invit-ing us for a bathing stop. Afterwards you return to the port where the ship awaits us to cruise over to Leros.  

Day 6: Island of Leros (approx. 25km/16miles)

Leros is green, varied and always offers new and surprising views into small harbours. A cycle trip in the morning brings you to the fort of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem in Agia Marina and into the small alleys of the town. After an espresso break in the idyllic harbour of the town you cycle on to the seaside chapel of Agios Isidoros, in which many couples get married. In the afternoon you cross over to the island of Kos, where your tour guides in the evening accompany you to the lively old town of Kos. You will be confronted with the ancient history of the town at every step.

Day 7: Island of Kos (approx. 30km/19miles)

In the morning you take a cycle trip to the world famous archaeological excavation site of the Asclipion, where Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine, practiced. From here the bike ride leads you on to Zia, an old Greek mountain village, which tempts us to stay with its numerous, cosy tavernas. Later on your boat takes you back to Bodrum, where you can stroll again through the lively, worth-seeing old town. The last evening aboard takes place traditionally and includes the communal dinner and a last get-together in a cosy atmosphere with crew and tour guides.

Day 8: Kos

After breakfast, check-out and transfer to the airport. Individual departure or extension.

We reserve the right to make changes to the planned route due to changing wind and weather conditions, and where required by organizational necessities..

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