- 5.5 days cycling
- 300 miles+ (average 55-60 miles/day)
- Stay in Frank Gehry’s surreal luxury hotel in rural Elciego, Spain
- Ride along the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage trail
- Test your legs on Basque Pyrenean cols (optional)
- Pamplona tapa-bar hopping!
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Still largely undiscovered in the international cycling world, La Rioja and the Basque Country are cycling gems. Our tour starts in the La Rioja region of Northern Spain which is now nearly synonymous with the Rioja wine. Modern bodegas, verdant vineyards, small wine roads and sleepy villages dot the cycling routes.
The terrain is largely fast and flat in the Ebro river valley, with undulating and challenging hills to the north. Moving along the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage trail east, we’ll enter Spanish Basque Country and the excitement of Pamplona. The trip finishes crossing the Pyrenees into the gorgeous countryside of the French Basque Country where small villages come to life with unique Basque architecture, AOC peppers and the heady buzz of the Basque Atlantic Coast.
Note: Dates don’t work or you have a special group of friends? This trip is excellent almost any time of year and can be customized to meet your group’s cycling and traveling dreams.
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