Bike and Hike where the Danube Cycle Path is at its most beautiful
3 days on the Danube Cycle Path Passau Vienna bike and hike means cycling and hiking where the Danube Cycle Path is most beautiful. The Danube Cycle Path is at its most beautiful where the Danube flows through a valley. So in the Austrian upper Danube valley between Passau and Aschach, in the Strudengau and in the Wachau.
1. Schlögener sling
Bike and hike from Passau through the upper Danube valley to the Schlögener Schlinge
In Passau we start our bike and hike tour on the Danube cycle path to the Schlögener Schlinge at Rathausplatz and ride along the right bank to Jochenstein, where we change to the left and continue to Niederranna. From Niederranna we ride 200 meters uphill on the road to Marsbach Castle, where we leave our bikes and continue on foot. We hike along the long ridge around which the Danube winds at Schlögen, towards the Schlögener Schlinge.
Passau
The old town of Passau lies on a long tongue of land formed by the confluence of the Inn and Danube rivers. In the area of the old town there was a first Celtic settlement with a port on the Danube near the old town hall. The Roman fort Batavis stood on the site of today's cathedral. The bishopric of Passau was founded by Boniface in 739. During the Middle Ages, the diocese of Passau stretched along the Danube to Vienna. The bishopric of Passau was therefore also called the Danube bishopric. In the 10th century there was already trade on the Danube between Passau and Mautern in the Wachau. Mautern Castle, also known as Passau Castle, which, like the left side of the Wachau and the right side up to St. Lorenz, belonged to the diocese of Passau, functioned from the 10th to the 18th century as the official seat of the diocese's administrators.
Obernzell
Obernzell Castle is a former prince-bishop's Gothic moated castle in the market town of Obernzell, about twenty kilometers east of Passau on the left bank of the Danube. Bishop Georg von Hohenlohe of Passau began building a Gothic moated castle, which was converted into a representative Renaissance palace by Prince Bishop Urban von Trennbach between 1581 and 1583. The castle, the "Veste in der Zell", was the seat of the bishop's caretakers until secularization in 1803/1806. Obernzell Castle is a mighty four-storey building with a half-hipped roof. On the first floor there is a late Gothic chapel and on the second floor there is the knight's hall, which occupies the entire southern front of the second floor facing the Danube.
Jochenstein
The Jochenstein power plant is a run-of-river power plant in the Danube, which derives its name from the nearby Jochenstein rock. The Jochenstein is a small rock island with a wayside shrine and Nepomuk statue, on which the border between the Prince-Bishopric of Passau and the Archduchy of Austria ran. The Jochenstein power plant was built in 1955 based on a design by the architect Roderich Fick. Roderich Fick was a professor at the Technical University of Munich and Adolf Hitler's favorite architect.
Marsbach
From Niederranna we ride our e-bikes on the road over a distance of 2,5 km and 200 meters in altitude from the Danube valley to Marsbach. We leave our bikes there and hike over the ridge around which the Danube winds to Au. From Au we cross the Danube with the bike ferry to Schlögen, where we continue our ride on the Danube Cycle Path with our bikes, which have been transported there in the meantime.
Marsbach Castle
Marsbach Castle is a relatively narrow, longitudinally rectangular castle complex on a long spur that falls steeply to the Danube from south-east to north-west, surrounded by the remains of the old defensive wall. At the point of articulation to the former outer bailey in the north-west, the now so-called castle, is the mighty medieval keep with a square floor plan. From the facility, you can see the Danube from Niederranna to the Schlögener Schlinge. Marsbach Castle was owned by the bishops of Passau, who used it as the administrative center for their estates in Austria. In the 16th century, Bishop Urban had the complex renovated in the Renaissance style.
Haichenbach castle ruins
The Haichenbach ruins, the so-called Kerschbaumerschlößl, named after the nearby Kerschbaumer farm, are the remains of a medieval castle complex from the 12th century with a spacious outer bailey and moats to the north and south, which lies on the narrow, steep, long ridge of rock around the the Danube meanders at Schlögen. Haichenbach Castle was owned by the diocese of Passau from 1303. The preserved, freely accessible residential tower, which has been converted into a viewing platform, offers a unique view of the Danube valley in the area of the Schlögener Schlinge.
Schlögener noose
The Schlögener Schlinge is a river meander in the upper Danube valley in Upper Austria, about halfway between Passau and Linz. The Bohemian Massif occupies the east of the European low mountain range and includes the granite and gneiss highlands of the Mühlviertel and Waldviertel in Austria. In the area of the upper Austrian Danube valley between Passau and Aschach, the Danube gradually deepened into the hard rock over the course of 2 million years, whereby the process was intensified by the uplift of the surrounding landscape. The special thing about it is that the Bohemian mass of the Mühlviertel continues south of the Danube in the form of the Sauwald. Except in the upper Danube valley, the Bohemian Massif continues above the Danube in the Studengau in the form of the Neustadtler Platte and in the Wachau in the form of the Dunkelsteinerwald. The Danube Cycle Path Passau Vienna is at its most beautiful where the Bohemian Massif continues south of the Danube and the Danube therefore flows through a valley.
Stupid look
From the Schlögener Blick viewing platform you can see the alluvial terrace on the inside of the Schlögener Schlinge with the village of Au. From Au you can take a bicycle ferry to the outside of the loop to Schlögen or a so-called longitudinal ferry to Grafenau on the left bank. The longitudinal ferry bridges a section of the left bank that can only be crossed on foot. The "Grand Canyon" of Upper Austria is often described as the most original and most beautiful place along the Danube. A hiking trail leads from Schlögen to a lookout point, the so-called Schlögener Blick, from which you have a good view of the loop that the Danube makes around a long mountain ridge near Schlögen. The picture is also so striking because the bed of the Danube in the area of the Schlögener Schlinge is full to the brim due to the backwater from the Aschach power plant.
2. Strudengau
Bike and hike on the Donausteig from Machland to Grein
The bike and hike tour from Mitterkirchen to Grein initially leads 4 km through the flat Machland to Baumgartenberg. From Baumgartenberg it then goes up through the Sperkenwald to Clam Castle. The cycling part of the tour ends at Clam Castle and we continue hiking through the Klamm Gorge back to the Machland plain, from where it goes up at Saxen to the Gobel at Grein on the Danube. From the Gobel we hike down to Grein, the destination of the bike and hike stage in Mitterkirchen Grein.
Mitterskirchen
In Mitterkirchen we continue the bike and hike tour on the Donausteig. We start the tour on the Donausteig with the bike, because the bike is best suited to move through the flat basin landscape of the Machland, which stretches from Mauthausen to the Strudengau. The Machland is one of the oldest settlement areas. Celts settled in Machland from 800 BC. The Celtic village of Mitterkirchen arose around the excavation of the burial ground in Mitterkirchen. The finds include the Mitterkirchner float, which was found in a wagon grave during excavations.
Today, the Machland is known to many because of a GmbH of the same name, as they know their products such as spicy cucumbers, salad, fruit and sauerkraut. After visiting the Celtic village in Lehen, you continue cycling through the Machland to Baumgartenberg, where Machland Castle was located, the seat of the Lords of Machland, who founded the Baumgartenberg Cistercian monastery in 1142. The baroque former collegiate church is also called “Machland Cathedral”. The monastery was dissolved by Emperor Joseph II and subsequently used as a penal institution.
Clam Castle
We leave the bikes at Clam Castle. Klam Castle is a rock castle visible from afar above the market town of Klam, stretching from east to west, high on a wooded hill that protrudes like a spur towards the Klambach, with a keep, a mighty, five-storey palace, a three-storey Renaissance arcade courtyard and ring wall, built around 1300. In 1422 the castle resisted a Hussite invasion. Around 1636 the castle was built by Johann Gottfried Perger, who was inherited by Emperor Ferdinand III in 1636. the title Noble Lord of Clam was awarded, expanded into a Renaissance castle. After Johann Gottfried Perger converted to the Catholic faith in 1665, he was raised to the nobility with the title Freiherr von Clam. In 1759, Empress Maria Theresa bestowed the title of Hereditary Austrian Count on the Clam family. Clam Castle continues to be inhabited by the Clam-Martinic line. Heinrich Clam-Martinic, a friend and confidante of the heir to the throne, Franz Ferdinand, was appointed Imperial Prime Minister in 1916 and knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece in 1918. After visiting Clam Castle, we continue on foot and hike through the Klamm Gorge to Saxen.
Gorge
From Clam Castle we continue our bike and hike tour on the Donausteig on foot and turn our steps in the direction of the Klamm Gorge, which begins below Clam Castle. The Klam Gorge is about two kilometers long and ends in the village of Au on the Machland plain. The natural beauty of the gorge is made up of the remains of a so-called ravine forest that can be found there. A canyon forest is a forest that grows on slopes so steep that the top layer of soil and rock is unstable. Through erosion, rocks and fine soil are repeatedly carried down the slope from the steep upper slope areas by water, frost and root blasting. As a result, a powerful colluvium accumulates on the lower slope, while the topsoil is characterized by very shallow soils up to bedrock. A colluvium is a layer of loose sediment consisting of alluvial soil material and loose loamy or sandy sediment. Sycamore maple, sycamore and ash make up a canyon forest. Norway maple and small-leaved lime trees are found on the sunny side and on the shallower upper slope, where the water balance is more critical. The special thing about the Klamm Gorge is that its natural beauty has been preserved, although there were efforts to build a reservoir.
Gobelwarte
From Saxen we hike on our bike and hike tour from Machland to Grein on the Gobel. On the 484 m high summit of the Gobels above Grein ad Donau there is a viewing platform from which you have a wonderful all-round view. In the north you can see the hills of the Mühlviertel, in the south the Eastern Alps from the Ötscher to the Dachstein, in the west the Marchland with the Danube valley and in the east Grein and the Strudengau. In 1894, the Austrian Tourist Club built an eleven-metre-high watchtower on a four-metre-high rock, the so-called Bockmauer, by a master locksmith from Greiner, which was replaced in 2018 by a new, 21-metre-high stainless steel structure. Architect Claus Pröglhöf has incorporated the elegance, grace and dynamism of a dancing woman into the design of the Gobelwarte, which, due to the twisting of the three supports in relation to one another, leads to noticeable vibrations on the platform.
grint
The market settlement of Grein an der Donau is located at the mouth of the Kreuzner Bach at the foot of the Hohenstein on a terrace above the Donaulände, which was often inundated by high water. Grein goes back to an early medieval settlement located in front of the dangerous shipping obstacles such as Schwalleck, Greiner Schwall, rocky reefs, balls around the island of Wörth and eddy at Hausstein opposite St. Nikola. Until the advent of steam navigation, Grein was a ship landing place for transhipment of freight for overland transport and for the use of pilotage services. The cityscape facing the Danube is dominated by the mighty Greinburg on the Hohenstein, the tower of the parish church and the former Franciscan monastery.
Castle Greinburg
Greinburg Castle towers over the Danube and the town of Grein on the Hohenstein hilltop. The Greinburg, one of the earliest castle-like, late-Gothic buildings with a wide, rectangular arcaded courtyard with 3-story round-arched arcades with Tuscan columns and arcades and projecting polygonal towers, was completed in 1495 on a square four-story plan with mighty hipped roofs. Greinburg Castle is now owned by the Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha's family and houses the Upper Austrian Maritime Museum. In the course of the Danube Festival, baroque opera performances take place every summer in the arcaded courtyard of Greinburg Castle.
Arcade courtyard of Greinburg Castle
3. Wachau
Bike and hike from the Loiben plain to Weißenkirchen in der Wachau
We start the bike and hike stage in the Wachau in Rothenhof at the eastern end of the Loiben plain, which we cross by bike on the Kellergasse at the foot of the Loibnerberg. In Dürnstein we hike on the World Heritage Trail to the Dürnstein castle ruins and on to the Fesslhütte, from where, after a rest, we return to Dürnstein via the Vogelbersteig and the Nase. From Dürnstein we cycle along the Danube Cycle Path to Weißenkirchen in the Wachau, the destination of our bike and hike stage in the Wachau.
Rothenhof
Rothenhof is located in the area donated by Heinrich II to the Benedictine monastery of Tegernsee in 1002 at the foot of the steep Pfaffenberg, where the valley of the Wachau, coming from Krems, widens north of the Danube with the Loiben plain to the next bottleneck near Dürnstein. The Loiben plain at the foot of the Loibnerberg forms a small, south-facing disc around which the Danube winds. On November 11, 1805, a battle of the Third Coalition War of the Napoleonic Wars took place between the French and the Allies after the entire Loibner plain up to Rothenhof was in the hands of the French. A monument at the foot of the Höheneck commemorates the Battle of Loiben.
The plain of Loiben
Grüner Veltliner is grown in the vineyards of the Frauenweingarten vineyards in the valley floor of the Wachau between Oberloiben and Unterloiben, which have existed since 1529. Grüner Veltliner is the most common grape variety in the Wachau. Grüner Veltliner thrives best on loess soils that were created by ice-age quartz particles that had been blown in, as well as loam and primary rock soils. The taste of the Veltliner depends on the type of soil. Primary rock soils produce a mineral, finely spicy aroma, while loess soil produces a full-bodied wine with intensive aromas and spicy notes, which are referred to as peppers.
Dürnstein
In Dürnstein we park our bikes and hike up the donkey trail to the castle ruins. When you climb up to the Dürnstein castle ruins, you have a beautiful view of the roofs of Dürnstein Abbey and the blue and white tower of the collegiate church, which is considered the symbol of the Wachau. In the background you can see the Danube and on the opposite bank the vineyards of the riverside terrace of the market town of Rossatz at the foot of the Dunkelsteinerwald. The corner pilasters of the bell storey of the church tower end in free-standing obelisks and the high round-arched windows of the bell storey are above relief plinths. The stone spire above the clock gable and figure base is designed as a curved lantern with a hood and a cross on top.
Castle ruins of Dürnstein
The Dürnstein castle ruins are situated on a rock 150 m above the old town of Dürnstein. It is a complex with an outer bailey and outwork in the south and a stronghold with Pallas and a former chapel in the north, which was built in the 12th century by the Kuenringers, an Austrian ministerial family of the Babenbergs who held the bailiwick of Dürnstein at the time . In the course of the 12th century, the Kuenringers came to rule in the Wachau, which in addition to Dürnstein Castle also included the castles Secret Annex and aggstein comprised. The English king, Richard the 1st, was captured as a hostage on December 3, 22 in Vienna Erdberg on his way back from the 1192rd crusade and was taken to the Kuenringer castle by order of the Babenberger Leopold V. who held him captive at Trifels Castle in the Palatinate until the horrendous ransom sum of 150.000 silver marks was brought by his mother, Eleonore of Aquitaine, to the court day in Mainz on February 2, 1194. Part of the ransom was used to build up Dürnstein.
Gföhl gneiss
From the Dürnstein castle ruins we hike slightly uphill to the Fesslhütte. The ground is covered with moss. Only where you walk does the rocky subsoil appear. The rock is so-called Gföhler gneiss. Gneisses form the oldest rock formations on earth. Gneisses are distributed worldwide and are often found in the old cores of the continents. Gneiss comes to the surface where deep erosion has exposed the bedrock. The basement of the Schloßberg in Dürnstein represents the south-eastern foothills of the Bohemian Massif. The Bohemian Massif is a truncated mountain range that makes up the east of the European low mountain range.
Dürnstein Vogelbergsteig
From Dürnstein to the castle ruins and on to the Fesslhütte and after a stop over the Vogelbergsteig back to Dürnstein is a slightly exposed, beautiful, panoramic hike, which is one of the most beautiful hikes in the Wachau, because next to the well-preserved medieval town of Dürnstein and the ruins on the Schloßberg there is also an alpine descent via the Vogelbergsteig.
In addition, on this hike you always have a clear view of Dürnstein with the collegiate church and the castle as well as the Danube, which winds in the valley of the Wachau around the opposite Rossatzer Uferterrasse. The panorama from the protruding rock pulpit of the Vogelberg at 546 m above sea level is particularly impressive.
The descent via the Vogelbergsteig to Dürnstein runs well secured with wire rope and chains, partly on the rock and over a granite slab with rubble. You should plan about 5 hours for this round from Dürnstein via the ruins to the Fesslhütte and via the Vogelbergsteig back, maybe even a little more with a stop.
Fesslhütte
In addition to keeping their goats, the Fessl family built a wooden hut in the Dürnsteiner Waldhütten in the middle of the forest about a hundred years ago and began serving hikers to the nearby Starhembergwarte. The hut was destroyed in a fire in the 1950s. In 1964, the Riedl family took over the Fesslhütte and began a generous expansion. From 2004 to 2022, the Fesslhütte was owned by the Riesenhuber family. The new hut owners are Hans Zusser from Dürnstein and the Weißenkirchner winemaker Hermenegild Mang. From March 2023, the Fesslhütte will be open again as a contact point for World Heritage Trails and other hikers.
Starhembergwarte
The Starhembergwarte is an approximately ten meter high lookout point on the summit of the 564 m above sea level. A. high Schlossberg above the Dürnstein castle ruins. In 1881/82, the Krems-Stein section of the Austrian Tourist Club built a wooden lookout point at this point. The control room in its present form was built in 1895 according to plans by the Krems master builder Josef Utz jun. built as a stone building and named after the family of the landowner, because with the abolition of Dürnstein Abbey by Emperor Joseph II in 1788, Dürnstein Abbey came to the Augustinian Canons' Abbey of Herzogenburg and the large property that belonged to Dürnstein Abbey fell to the Starhemberg princely family.
From Dürnstein to Weißenkirchen
Between Dürnstein and Weißenkirchen we cycle on our bike and hike tour through the Wachau on the Danube Cycle Path, which runs along the valley floor of the Wachau on the edge of the Frauengarten at the foot of the Liebenberg, Kaiserberg and Buschenberg. The vineyards of Liebenberg, Kaiserberg and Buschenberg are steep slopes facing south, south-east and south-west. The name Buschenberg can be found as early as 1312. The name refers to a hill overgrown with bushes that was apparently cleared for the cultivation of wine. The Liebenberg is named after its former owners, the aristocratic family of the Liebenberger.
Weissenkirchen
The old Wachau road from Dürnstein to Weißenkirchen runs along Weingarten Steinmauern on the border between the Achleiten and Klaus vineyards. The Achleiten vineyard in Weißenkirchen is one of the best white wine locations in the Wachau due to its orientation from south-east to west and its proximity to the Danube. Riesling, in particular, thrives very well on the barren soil with gneiss and weathered primary rock, as can be found in the Achleiten vineyard.
The Ried Klaus
The Danube in front of “In der Klaus” near Weißenkirchen in der Wachau makes a north-facing curve around the Rossatzer Uferplatte. The Riede Klaus, a slope facing south-east, is the epitome of the "Wachauer Riesling".
right at the beginning of the success story after 1945.
The essential characteristics of the Weinriede Klaus are the even, small-grained structure and the foliation-parallel, mostly blurred, striped formation, which is caused by different hornblende contents. Paragneiss prevails in the lower Riede Klaus. The main components of the mixture The cleavage of the rock allows the vines to root deeply.
Weissenkirchen Parish Church
The Weißenkirchen parish church, which characterizes the townscape, towers over the town with the mighty western tower that can be seen from afar. In addition to the mighty, square, high-rising north-west tower, divided into 5 floors by cornices, with a steep hipped roof with bay window and pointed arch window in the sound zone from 1502, there is an older hexagonal tower with a gable wreath and coupled pointed arch slits and a stone pyramid helmet, which was built in 1330 in the course of the 2-nave expansion of today's central nave to the north and south in the west front.
wine tavern
In Austria, a Heuriger is a bar where wine is served. According to the Buschenschankgesetz, owners of vineyards are entitled to temporarily serve their own wine in their own house without a special license. The tavern keeper must put out the customary tavern sign at the tavern for the duration of the tavern. A straw wreath is "put out" in the Wachau. In the past, the food at the Heurigen served mainly as a solid base for the wine. Today people come to the Wachau for a snack at the Heurigen. The cold snack at the Heurigen consists of various meats, such as home-smoked bacon or home-roasted meat. There are also homemade spreads, such as Liptauer. In addition, there is bread and pastries as well as homemade pastries, such as nut strudel. The bike and hike tour of the Radler-Rast on the Danube Cycle Path Passau Vienna ends in the evening of the 3rd day at the Heurigen in the Wachau.
Cycling and hiking tour along the Danube Cycle Path, Donausteig and Vogelbergsteig
Bike and hike program
Day 1
Individual arrival in Passau. Welcome and dinner together in the cellar vaults of a former monastery, which has its own wine from the Wachau
Day 2
With e-bike on the Danube cycle path from Passau 37 km to the Pühringerhof in Marsbach. Lunch at the Pühringerhof with a beautiful view of the Danube valley.
Hike from Marsbach to the Schlögener Schlinge. With the bikes, which in the meantime have been brought from Marsbach to the Schlögener Schlinge, it then continues to Inzell. Dinner together on a terrace on the Danube.
Day 3
Transfer from Inzell to Mitterkirchen. With the e-bikes a short stretch on the Donausteig from Mitterkirchen to Lehen. Visit to the Celtic village. Then continue by bike on the Donausteig to Klam. Visit to Clam Castle with tasting of the "Count Clam'schen Burgbräu". Then hike through the gorge to Saxen. From Saxen further hike on the Donausteig over the Reitberg to Oberbergen to the Gobelwarte and on to Grein. Dinner together in Grein.
Day 4
Transfer to Rothenhof in the Wachau. Bike ride through the plain from Loiben to Dürnstein. Hike to the Dürnstein ruins and on to the Fesslhütte. Descent to Dürnstein via the Vogelbergsteig. Continue by bike through the Wachau to Weißenkirchen in the Wachau. In the evening we visit the Heurigen together in Weißenkirchen.
Day 5
Breakfast together at the hotel in Weißenkirchen in the Wachau, farewell and departure.
The following services are included in our Danube Cycle Path bike and hike offer:
• 4 nights with breakfast in a hotel in Passau and in the Wachau, in an inn in the area of the Schlögener Schlinge and in Grein
• 3 dinners
• All tourist taxes and city taxes
• Entry into the Celtic village in Mitterkirchen
• Admission to Burg Clam with a tasting of the “Graeflich Clam'schen Burgbräu”
• Transfer from Inzell to Mitterkirchen
• Transfer from Mitterkirchen to Oberbergen
• Transfer from Grein to Rothenhof in the Wachau
• Luggage and bike transport
• 2 bike and hike guides
• Soup on Thursday lunchtime
• Visit to the Heurigen on Thursday evening
• All Danube ferries
Bike and hike travel companion for your bike tour on the Danube Cycle Path
Your bike and hike travel companions on the Danube Cycle Path Passau Vienna are Brigitte Pamperl and Otto Schlappack. If you are not on the Danube Cycle Path, the two will take care of your guests in the Cyclist rest on the Danube Cycle Path in Oberarnsdorf in the Wachau.
Price for a bike and hike trip on the Danube Cycle Path per person in a double room: €1.398
Single supplement €190
Travel dates bike and hike on the Danube Cycle Path Passau Vienna
Travel period bike and hike
April 17-22, 2023
September 18st - 22th, 2023
Number of participants for the bike and hike trip on the Danube Cycle Path Passau Vienna: min. 8, max. 16 guests; End of the registration period 3 weeks before the start of the trip.
Booking request for the bike and hike trip on the Danube Cycle Path Passau Vienna
What is meant by bike and hike?
The English say bike and walk instead of bike and hike. Probably because they use the term hike for alpine walking. Bike and hike means you start off by bike, usually on the flat or slightly uphill, and then hike a section of the route that is more pleasant to hike than to ride a mountain bike. To give an example. You ride from Passau on the Danube cycle path through the upper Danube valley to Niederranna and enjoy the wind and just cycle along the Danube. Do a bit of the route before you step back a little as you approach the highlight of the tour, get off your bike and continue on foot for the last part. To continue with the example, from Niederranna you can climb a slight incline with the e-bike to Marsbach. There you leave your bike at Marsbach Castle and hike on to deliberately approach the Schlögener Schlinge from above at a slower pace.
While you deliberately approach the Schlögener Schlinge in Au from above, your bike will be brought to Schlögen. When you then take the bike ferry to Schlögen with your eventful impressions of the short hike to the Schlögener Schlinge from Au, your bike will be ready to continue your journey along the Danube Cycle Path. Hike and bike.
What time of year bike and hike on the Danube Cycle Path?
The best season for bike and hike on the Danube Cycle Path Passau Vienna is spring and autumn, because in these seasons it is less hot than in summer, which is an advantage for the hiking sections of bike and hike. In spring the meadows are green and in autumn the foliage is colorful. The typical smell of spring is that of musty, musty earth, which is produced by microorganisms in the soil when the earth warms up in spring and releases the vapors from the microorganisms. Autumn smells of chrysanthemums, cyclamen and mushrooms in the forest. When hiking, the autumn scents trigger an intense, real experience. Another thing that speaks for a bike and hike tour on the Danube Cycle Path Passau Vienna in spring or autumn is that there are fewer people on the road in spring and autumn than in summer.
For whom is bike and hike on the Danube Cycle Path best suited?
A bike and hike tour on the Danube Cycle Path Passau Vienna is suitable for everyone who wants to take their time. Those who want to get involved in the beautiful sections in the area of the Schlögener Schlinge, at the beginning of the Strudengau and in the Wachau and want to immerse themselves in the characteristics of these areas. Those who are also a bit interested in culture and history. A bike and hike tour on the Danube Cycle Path Passau Vienna is ideal for couples, families with children, seniors and single travelers, solo travellers.