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Tour profile:

The tour is rather aimed at more advanced cyclists. Although long passages are flat across the board, so there are always overcome significant differences in height. The roads are largely free of traffic, but correspond in nature and do not always surface in Western and Central European standards.

Day 1: Krakow - Ustrzyki

Individual arrival. At midday you will meet the tour guide. 2 pm bus transfer (approx. 245km/ 152 miles)to Ustrzyki Dolne (a little town on the border of the Ukraine).

Day 2: Terlo - Sambir (approx. 53 km/33 miles)

After entrance to the Ukraine you will have a stop in Terlo. Here you start your first bike leg through colorful  carpathien villages. You reach the valley of the upper Dnjestr in Staryj Sambir. Along this river we reach today´s destination Sambir.

Day 3: Sambir - Drogobytsch (approx. 45 km/28 miles)

The landscape is changing very fast - in former times the river Dnjestr flows through a giant mashland. Through agient allies of trees we cycle to Drogobytsch, a former centre of the salt mining.

Day 4: Drogobytsch - Truskawez - Dovgoluka (approx. 30 km/19 miles)

Today you reach the generous reconstruced health resort Truskawez, which disposes a lot of mineral springs. You cychle through dark oak forests into the little village Dovgoluka, which is your today´s target.

Day 5: Dovgoluka - Tovste - Zalischtschyki (approx. 230 km/143 miles bus transfer, approx. 43 km/27 miles)

You get to know the spectacular landscape formation of Posolians: "Yar" means gorge, which is a very deeply gashed river canyon. You follow the run of the river Dschuryn over the former polish fortress (Tscherwonograd) till you reach the river Dnjestr.

Day 6: Zalischtschyki - Czernowitz (approx. 65 km/40 miles)

At the old border area there met the nobleness republic Poland, the russian and the osmanian empire. The land south to the river Dnjestr belonged till 1939 to Romania. The stoned evidences of the metropolis Czernowitz remind you to the "golden ages" of the K u. K monarchy.

Day 7: Czernowitz - Chotyn - Kamjanez Podilskij (approx. 60 km/37 miles bus transfer/ approx. 25 km/15 miles)

Passing wine villages and fruit tree plantations you reach again the Dnjestr valley. In the afternoon you reach your last destination: Kamjanez Podolskyj, one of the oldest ukrainian cities.

Day 8: Kamjanez Podilskij - Lemberg (approx. 260 km/162 miles bus transfer, approx. 22 km/14 miles)

Via bus transfer you reach the city Lemberg, the most important city in the western Ukraine. You have a short bike ride through the waste green land and visit the old city.

Day 9: Lemberg - Krakow (approx. 320 km/199 miles bus transfer)

In mid morning you have free time. In the afternoon you get back to Krakow with the bus. In the early evening you reach Krakow and have your last overnight there.

Day 10: Krakow

Individual departure or extension.

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