Welcome to Hooked on Cycling holidays and our cycling holiday in Austria. This biking vacation in Austria will take you from the ski resort at St Moritz to innsbruck. This particular cycle tour we have graded as level 2 and is available as a self guided bike tour . You know if you were an artist with brush and colours, inspired by impressionism, you would need weeks to complete this tour. Too many sensual impressions, too magnificent the panorama and too many picturesque villages of the Engadin like Zernez, Susch and Lavin. You will mainly follow the Inn cycle path which leads through outstanding landscapes.You will see the the wide Hochtal (valley) as Oberengadin merges into the big forests of the Swiss National Park. Then suddenly the scenery changes as the Austrian county of the Tyrol welcomes you with warm hospitality. The cycle tour ends in Innsbruck, a stay in the Olympic city is one of the highlights of the Inn-bicycle path. You will partly cycle on cycle paths, partly on forest and gravel roads. The stages are a little bit hilly, with two to three medium ascents and a lot of regular down hills.

Available Fridays from 18th May to 21st September
Level 2 self guided tour

Day 1 Innsbruck or St. Moritz
Individual journey to St. Moritz or to Innsbruck with bus transfer to St. Moritz ( 2pm )

Day 2 Trip around St. Moritz
Enjoy the fascinating surrounding of St. Moritz. Cycle tour to the spring of river Inn.

Day 3 St. Moritz – Zernez 22 miles 35 km
Today you start your cycle tour towards Innsbruck your final destination. You cycle via Samedan with a beautiful Old Tower and onto La Punt with its surprisingly early gothic church of San-Andrea. After a look around continue onto Zuoz and look at the window paintings of church San Luzi and onto Zernez. You will cycle through the high valley of the Oberengadin. Zernez is the gate to the National Park.

Day 4 Zernez – Scuol 22 miles 35 km
Today you set off towards Lavin. Lavin is a wonderful preserved town full of character of an old mountain village. Then it is onto Guarda . The name of the village Guarda (“Look!”) is based on the scenic views. The destination of today’s stage is Scuol, with the adventure pool “Bogn Engiadina” and castle Tarasp, a majestic landmark of the Engadin.

Day 5 Scuol – Ried 35 miles 55 km
Now from Scuol it is over Martina where we will reach the boarder to Austria. Then we cycle via Pfunds and Tösens to Ried. Always cycling along the river Inn, through Finstermünzer Schlucht (gorge), town centres of Stuben and Pfunds/Tirol.

Day 6        Ried – Imst 25 miles 40 km
Today from Ried you cycle via Prutz down to Landeck with its castle with museum, ruin Schrofenstein, and Gerberbrücke a showplace of the Tyrolean freedom wars. We cycle pass the monastery Zams and through the protected river meadow Milser Au to Imst. Imst is a town of many wells and many churches and chapels. A recommendation is that you take a visit to Rosengartenschlucht - the rose garden gorge

Day 7        Imst – Innsbruck 40 miles 65 km
There are smart, small villages on the Inn-bike-path. Cultural highlight of today’s stage is the Cistercians monastery Stams (collegiate church with rose grids). Numerous small churches and ruins decorate the slopes of Inn valley. Along Martin’s wall we reach Innsbruck. Innsbruck has a fabulous compact old town. You must visit the Goldenes Dachl a golden roof, town tower, castle Hofburg, royal park Hofgarten, and historic town house Helbinghaus .

Day 8        Innsbruck and individual departure

Tariff 2008

How to get there
Fly direct to Innsbruck and take the transfer to St Moritz. Fly to Zurich and then by train to St Moritz ( approx. 3 hours ).

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