Tour Highlights :
* Enjoyable and relaxed cycling following the flat and traffic-free cycle path - formerly a tow path
   along the Danube.
* Discovering the treasure of St. Florian and Melk abbeys.
* Finishing the tour in Vienna with its impressive Habsburg palaces, outstanding baroque 
  architecture and classical music links.
 
Included:

• Seven nights bed & breakfast accommodation in 3 and 4-star hotels. 
  Bicycle hire (7 or 21 gears)
  Route descriptions and maps
  Luggage transfer
  Ferry from Melk to Spitz and Enns to Mauthausen
  Train from Eferding to Linz 
  Train from Greifenstein to Vienna

Optional Extras:
86 UK half board supplement
15 UK per night single supplement

Itinerary :

Day 1 :  collect your bicycles and explore the beautiful town of Passau.

Day 2 : follow the Danube to the town of Engelhartszell with the only Trappist monastery in Austria .Continue to
Schlogen where you will spend the night (26 miles).

Day 3 : admire the views as  you cycle along the dramatic bend in the Danube, the Schlogener Schlinge.  
Complete  the journey to LInz by ferry or train. Take a city tour or a trip by cable car to Postlingberg, a
baroque pilgrimage church and fairytale grotto (19 miles).

Day 4 : cycle towards Enns, the oldest town in Austria.  Stop at the St. Florian Monastery.  Cross the Danube
by ferry to Mauthausen and continue by bike to Perg (24 miles).

Day 5: take the cycle path to Grein and then past Habsburg Castle and Persenbeug to Marbach. From here
you will be transferred to your hotel in the pilgrimage resort of Maria Taferi (36 miles).

Day 6: the Danube will lead you to one of the world's most famous monasteries at Melk. Take the ferry to Spitz
 and then cycle on to Traismauer through Durnstein, where Richard the Lionheart spent time (35 miles).

Day 7 : complete your journey through the green valley to Klosterneuburg and Greifenstein.  Here you will
transfer into the centre of Vienna by train (26 miles).

Day 8 : departure day.