Cycling holidays La Route Verte Leisure Route «Heights & Horizons» TO
Cycling: La Route Verte
The nature parks of the Jura Arc
The "Heights & Horizons" Leisure Route takes you from Balsthal to Couvet for a real energy boost that will blow your mind! The Passwang Pass and the Vogelbergfluh in the Thal Nature Park offer a breath-taking panorama over Basel, to the North, and the Alps in the South.
The two passes on the next stage reward you as well with magnificent views. You will then reach the charming medieval town of St-Ursanne, the gateway to the Doubs Nature Park, with its meandering Doubs river. Take the time to visit a franches-montagnes horse breeding farm before passing through the Chasseral Nature Park on the crest of Mont-Soleil.
You will then travel between dry stone walls, testimony to a long regional tradition, and wind turbines, creating the energy of the future. This Leisure Route ends with a small glass of “green fairy” in the beautiful Val-de-Travers.
A challenging tour along the chain of hills of the Jura. The tours lead mostly on little used side roads. Only in the urban centres is a little more traffic to be expected. Because of the sometimes challenging climbs, we recommend that you tackle the tour with an electric bike. The "pleasure variants" offer shorter stages and are less strenuous than the original route. The Route Verte mostly follows the signposted routes of Veloland Schweiz. In the cantons of Jura, Neuchâtel and Vaud, orientation is easy; before that, the different routes change several times a day.
Garage parking at the train station in Balsthal. CHF 6.- / per Day.
Return journey by train via Biel to Balsthal. Duration: approx. 2 h
Travel Documents
Travel documents "analogous"
By default, your travel package includes a set of travel documents, which we will transmit you in advance. The following documents will inform you about your tour:
Travel program with all organizational details.
Official guidebook « Cycling Switzerland»
maps for your biking and/or hiking routes
Detailed maps about your stage locations
Detailed programme day-by-day
Travel documents "digital"
If you select the option "digital travel documents" when booking, we will provide you with all documents for your trip in a digital form. You will receive a small set of documents with the following content:
Manuals for the use of necessary apps
luggage tags
eventual vouchers
En route you will inform yourself easily with the app of SwitzerlandMobility and other free apps. Background information and all other documents are electronically assigned and can be downloaded to your mobile phone in advance.
Since this option saves resources and costs, a discount of CHF 30.- per room is offered.