Vilnius to Gdansk Bike Tour

Day 1: Arrival in Vilnius
You will arrive in Vilnius, capital of Lithuania for more than 600 years, and check into your hotel for two nights, where your maps, programme and route notes are waiting.

Day 2: Vilnius – Trakai – Vilnius (49 km; ~32 km by minibus)
After a guided walking tour of Vilnius's baroque old town, you transfer to Užutrakis and ride on gentle hills around Lake Galvė back to Vilnius. On the way you can stop in Trakai, former capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, with its 14th-century castle on a small island in the lake.

Day 3: Merkinė – Liškiava – Druskininkai (48 km; ~100 km by minibus)
A transfer takes you to Merkinė, where you start riding along the Nemunas River via Liškiava and its 17th–18th-century Dominican monastery on the riverbank. You reach Druskininkai, one of Europe's classic spa resorts, for two nights. In the afternoon you can visit Grūtas Park, where the Soviet-era statues removed after independence were gathered.

Day 4: Dzūkija National Park (42 km; ~45 km by minibus)
A morning transfer brings you to Dzūkija National Park, Lithuania's largest, almost entirely covered in pine forest. Your route runs through the woods and traditional wooden villages. The afternoon is free in the resort, or you can add a loop through the forest.

Day 5: Into Poland – Suwałki Lakeland (47 km; ~85 km by minibus)
After a transfer across the border into Poland, you will ride over rolling hills with views of lakes and Polish countryside to Wigry National Park, passing through Suwałki, the main town of the region. The night is spent in Gawrych Ruda.

Day 6: Wigry National Park – Giżycko (47 km; ~120 km by minibus)
A loop on marked trails circles Lake Wigry, one of the largest and deepest lakes in the region, with fifteen islands. On a peninsula stands the 17th-century Camaldolese monastery with its church and hermitages. In the afternoon a transfer takes you to Giżycko in the Masurian Lake District, the "land of a thousand lakes".

Day 7: Masurian Lakeland – Frombork (36 km; ~175 km by minibus)
You will ride around one of the Great Masurian Lakes, partly on the Masurian Bicycle Loop, starting in Giżycko, Poland's sailing capital, known for the 19th-century Boyen fortress and the country's only swing bridge on the Łuczański Canal. An afternoon transfer brings you to the Vistula Lagoon, to Frombork or Braniewo.

Day 8: Frombork – Elbląg – Gdansk (52 km; ~90 km by minibus)
A rolling ride along the Vistula Lagoon starts in Frombork, where the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus lived and worked. You reach Elbląg, a former Hanseatic town founded by the Teutonic Order. On the transfer to Gdansk you stop in Malbork for a short introduction to the largest medieval fortress in Europe. Two nights in Gdansk follow.

Day 9: Gdansk – Sopot – Gdansk (32 km)
A bike path along the coast takes you to Sopot, one of Poland's oldest and most popular seaside resorts, with its sandy beach and long wooden pier, and back to Gdansk. After the ride you return the bikes. In the afternoon you can join a local guide for a walking tour of Gdansk's old town.

Day 10: Departure from Gdansk
Your tour ends after breakfast.

Good to know
A driver with a minibus and bike trailer travels with you throughout the tour, moves your luggage and helps with breakdowns. Guided walking tours of Vilnius and Gdansk are included; entrance fees are not. You arrive in Vilnius and fly home from Gdansk.