Mountain Biking Holidays
People not acquainted with this type of holiday ask and wonder of what type of holiday is it when you are physically active all the time? The physical activity is a small price to pay for the stunning views and places, if you consider it to be a price. It’s more of a health benefit. Keeping fit and healthy with driving a bike is probably the greatest vacation you can give to your body. Tremendous sights-for-sore-eyes will definitely cure those countless hours staring at your PC or TV set. Beautiful thing about this mountain bike holidays is that you don’t have to wait for your year holiday days; a simple weekend in the mountains riding a bike will “fill the batteries” of the positive aura around you for the whole month.
Going on a biking holiday is very popular nowadays. People chose this type of vacation over beach resorts wanting to experience more than just laying down on the sun. Countries in Europe and around the world have biking destinations for the holiday of a lifetime.
Great Britain has an impressive destination to the summits of Helvellyn, Skiddaw and Highstreet; a destination known as The Three Summits. Each mountain has it own individuality, but together they make a great mixture of magnificent views and bike riding challenges.
The Lakeland Epic is another mountain bike holiday destination in Britain. A great ride looping Lake District in a time span of 5 days will take you through one of the wildest terrain in the country.
3 day classical Coast-to-Coast bike riding will give you the opportunity to pedal off-road across the island passing Lake District, Eden Valley, Pennines and Northumbria.
Italy offers the mountain bike holiday Lake Garda. Superb tracks are located along the two peaks rising above the lake. This destination will lead you to valleys filled with vineyards, mountain castles.
Marina Alta Singletrack is Spain’s gift to biking enthusiasts. The tracks are basically old donkey tracks in a rocky mountain. Mozarabic trails cover great range of valleys and summits; a perfect mountain biking experience.
Africa plays its part in this type of vacations. Morocco has The Atlas Mountains with miles and miles of single-track terrain and breathtaking scenery. Another two exiting bike holiday destinations are Malawi and Ethiopia. On the other side of the globe Vietnam and New Zealand have biking trails leading to remote destination, untouched ancient villages, wilderness and enormous playgrounds for mountain biking.
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