Sweet comfort on the Drau Cycle Path
Has now also become reality on the Drau Cycle Path: our mantra of combining individual freedom with service, comfort and safety ©Kärnten Werbung
Not that I’ll ever drive either of those cars in my life, but that’s how I imagine it. I’m on the Drau Cycle Path – with a borrowed e-bike. On the way to have a different vacation. As a rule I go from hut to hut or am out and about on the high mountains privately or as a mountain guide, but this time I am following the magic of the water with my wife and children. I just want to try out what our guests on the Drau Cycle Path praise so highly – I’m usually responsible for the more alpine activities at bookyourtrail.com. But this time with all the amenities – I just want to relax and be carefree on the road with bookyourtrail.com. No heavily packed bikes, only light day luggage – the rest is already waiting for us at the hotel, delivered by the luggage transport. Good comfortable hotels, we just want to have a good time. And should something unforeseen happen, we can always call the Bookyourtrail.com hotline.

Enjoyable cycling in a wonderful landscape on the Drau Cycle Path. © Kärnten Werbung, Photographer: Franz Gerdl
I’m on the Drau Cycle Path – with a borrowed e-bike. On the way to have a different vacation. As a rule I go from hut to hut or am out and about on the high mountains privately or as a mountain guide, but this time I am following the magic of the water with my wife and children. I just want to try out what our guests on the Drau Cycle Path praise so highly – I’m usually responsible for the more alpine activities at bookyourtrail.com. But this time with all the amenities – I just want to relax and be carefree on the road with bookyourtrail.com. No heavily packed bikes, only light day luggage – the rest is already waiting for us at the hotel, delivered by the luggage transport. Good comfortable hotels, we just want to have a good time. And should something unforeseen happen, we can always call the Bookyourtrail.com hotline.

Beautiful historical towns and cities alternate with natural landscapes along the Drau Cycle Path. © Kärnten Werbung, Photographer: Franz Gerdl
And I have to say I am thrilled with the cycle tour along the Drau Cycle Path! The start in San Candido on the edge of the Dolomites is spectacular. The first stage destination is no less impressive, the small town of Lienz at the foot of the rugged Lienz Dolomites. And in between – a wonderfully easy and exhilarating bike tour in the midst of an impressive alpine landscape. Always along the life-giving water artery of the Drava, always on well-paved bike paths away from the main roads. And the good thing about it is: despite the towering mountains all around, we only have to climb a few meters in altitude. All in all, our bikes even roll downhill like the water in the Drau.

The Drau also meanders through the enchanting town of Villach and so your cycle tour.
After Lienz, the landscape becomes a little lovelier without losing its alpine character. The valley of the Drau, which is still deeply cut, leads you to the next two stage destinations, the town of Spittal an der Drau and the already larger town of Villach. From Villach to your destination at the lake Klopeiner See, however, the valley widens into a basin and the lovely landscape makes you look forward to a swim in the lake Klopeiner See, our destination after four enjoyable stages on the Drau Cycle Path.

Lovely places along the Drau Cycle Path invite you to rest. © Kärnten Werbung, photographer: Franz Gerdl
We will definitely go on vacation like this more often in the future. Because it’s not the unbearable lightness of being, as the title of a famous book and film says – a cycle tour along the Drau Cycle Path with all the services is the wonderful lightness of being.
You can find all important information about the Drau Cycle Path here.
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Stefan
Lieb-Lind
As an environmental systems scientist and state-certified mountain and ski guide, the native Bavarian ideally combines competence and passion for his great love, the mountains. Recognized mountain book author and first climber of daring routes in rock and ice.

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