Tired of biking around your neighborhood? Try a slightly bigger challenge with a route of almost 400 km. Don’t be afraid, even a less experienced biker can handle it. The journey takes place 99% of the time on bike paths and local roads with gentle inclines along the beautiful Danube river.
Detailed Google map with attractions
Equipment
- Bicycle GHOST Cross 1300, carrier with bags, lights, helmet
- 1 spare tube, puncture repair kit, pump
- Tent, sleeping bag, sleeping mat
- Brochure Danube Cycling Path (available for free at any info center, or can be ordered for free by mail to Slovakia on the website donau.com)
Itinerary
Day 1: Evening arrival in Passau
- Train ticket from Bratislava to Passau can be bought online through Einfach-Raus-Radticket, price €43 for 2 persons with bikes, journey takes about 5 hours
- Camping by the Ilz River – Camping Passau (price €9.50/night/person)
Day 2: Passau – Ottensheim (90 km)
- Passau tour – a city on the border with Austria at the confluence of three rivers – Inn, Danube, and Ilz. In the St. Stephen’s Basilica, there is the largest organ in the world (outside of the USA), an organ concert every day at 12:00.
- Schlögen – Danube’s meander, viewpoint 15 min walk from the Donauschlinge hotel (right bank).
- Accommodation arranged by phone on-site in Ottensheim – private Gästehaus Hemmelmayr (price with breakfast 27€/night/person).
Day 3: Ottensheim – Grein (90 km)
- Sightseeing in Linz – UNESCO City of Media Arts, old town hall (with a floor map of Linz in the foyer), cathedral, castle
- Mauthausen – former concentration camp (left bank)
- Enns – the oldest town in Austria (right bank)
- Accommodation arranged on-site in Grein – private House Eder (price with breakfast 24€/night/person)
Day 4: Grein – Krems an der Donau (95 km)
- Maria Taferl – the 2nd most important pilgrimage site in Austria after Mariazell (turn uphill from the cycle path, left bank)
- Wachau vineyard region along the route Melk – Krems (turn left bank in Melk)
- Camping by the Danube – Donaupark Camping Krems (price 11.60€/night/person)
Day 5: Krems an der Donau – Vienna (104 km)
- Klosterneuburg Monastery – the most beautiful church along the entire route
- St. Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna
- Train Vienna – Bratislava
