Prague – Vienna = 8 days full of monuments and experiences
Even if it might seem impossible, it is true. It is possible to get from Prague to Vienna in eight days. However it is necessary to mention the fact that cycle tourism, mainly the one organized by travel agencies and associations, is dependent on transport by public transportation. Even the cycle tour Prague – Vienna is not an exception. A because of the fact that the way from Czech capital city to the Austrian one is so long, it is possible to choose from two ways which are connecting these big cities. Trips on bicycles which run from Prague to Vienna are:
- Cycle tour from Prague to Vienna,
- Cycle tour from Prague to Vienna through Cesky Krumlov
And even if these bike tours are in certain parts kind of similar, in the first days they are offering completely different experiences. In the first days they offer discovering different cities, different monuments and even different natural diversities.
The first named trip, which does not run through Cesky Krumlov, is starting right in Prague. Right from Prague cyclists are starting to travel on bicycles for the purpose of discovering beautiful monuments of Czech castles in the form of castle Pruhonice and Konopiste, and also castle Tynec nad Sazavou. But because of the fact that you will travel just on bicycles, the trip would be very long, so from the castle Konopiste you will be transported to Tabor by train, from which you will continue, again riding bicycle, to the fairy tale castle called Cervena Lhota, one of the most famous buildings in Czech Republic. The look and the location of the castle will not let anyone to have some doubts that it is not a really unique and magnificent monument.
But Cervena Lhota is not the only unique monument of this trip. Another unique thing is the architecture of the city Telc, where cycle tourists will get from Jindrichuv Hradec. Telc is also a place where the two trips, which will lead the tourists to Vienna, will meet. The second track, running through Cesky Krumlov, is also starting in Prague but from there tourist will travel right to Cesky Krumlov by train. Here it is possible to visit one of the biggest castle complexes in Czech Republic, with the broad castle garden with the turning auditorium.
From Cesky Krumlov, cyclists will continue to Trebon, another beautiful Southern-Bohemian city, which is known mainly because of the area in which the biggest ponds in Czech Republic were built. But tourists in Trebon are able to visit even a small castle. Then, from the city of ponds, the tourists will get to Telc.
From Telc, the city that is registered on the list of historic heritages UNESCO, tourist will continue, on both tracks, to Vranov nad Dyji, in front of another architectonically important city – Slavonice. Until this moment, the cycle tracks, both the one through Tabor and the one through Cesky Krumlov, were aimed mainly on the architecture and historical beauties of Czech Republic, but from Vranov nad Dyji, cyclists will discover another attractive aspects of Czech Republic, and mainly in the natural ones.
The tracks are entering the region of the National park Podyji and protected landscape area Palava, which are by the way places where the vine is being growing. In addition, Palava is one of the driest regions in Czech Republic, which allows the nature to grow plants that does not occur anywhere else in the country and they are even not possible to grow anywhere else in the world.
The tourists are driving through important wine regions and cities such as Znojmo, Mikulov or Valtice. Cycle tourism will thus lead tourists from Central Bohemia and a million Prague to the region of pounds and then to the hilly landscape on the border with Austria, where it is already just a small bit to reach the main aim of this trip – Vienna.
And because of the fact that it would be a shame to leave out some places on this trail, such as Lednice and mainly the Lednicko-Valticky areal, so the cyclists are leaded to this direction and within the wine markets they can relish another beauties of architecture, which are not possible to see elsewhere in the country. But from now on, it is time to cross the border and to travel around the beauties of Austria and mainly the beauties of the capital city. But before that, it is needed to visit castles called Wilfersdorf and Schonbrunn, which will create the right atmosphere for the entering to the city of waltzes.
The track, in which the cycle tourists will get to Vienna through Cesky Krumlov, has 349 kilometers in total, which is relatively sufficient length, in addition including really beautiful monuments, which this track is full of. The similar statistic has the track in which the tourist will go through Tabor, which has 318 kilometers in total.
Both the cycle tracks are eight-day, but definitely not the same. Each one is offering specific options and unique sceneries. The choice is completely on you. Whether you choose the first track or the other one, there will be definitely monuments and landscape places of interest waiting for you, which will surely ravish you.
