Camino de Santiago Bike Tour

Our Camino de Santiago bike tour is simply one of our top bike tours ever; this guided journey combines all of our favourite things: superb cycling, myths & legends, history & culture, and a whole lot of regional variety as you pedal from the French border in the Pyrenees all the way to Santiago de Compostela in north western Spain.

"...a pilgrimage across northern Spain to the sanctuary at Santiago de Compostela, is the finest journey in Spain and one of the two or three best in the world." So wrote James Michener in his monumental book on Spain, Iberia. For a thousand years, since the bones of St. James were reputedly discovered in Santiago, common people, bishops, priests, kings, popes and saints have made this famous pilgrimage.

This epic bike tour echoes their footsteps, following the first guide book ever written, by a monk in the 12th century - the Codex Calixtinus. We begin high in the Pyrenees above Pamplona and cross beautiful plains of northern Spain taking in the cathedral cities of León and Burgos, and countless pilgrim stops steeped in wonders and miracles along the way. Our lodgings include luxurious monasteries, ancient pilgrim inns and small hotels. We dine in restaurants famous for their regional cuisine and atmosphere.

Highlights

• Join pilgrims from all over the world to ride one of the oldest pilgrimage paths in history.
• Sample the silky Rioja wines and visit one of the region’s most famous bodegas, Marques de Riscal, designed by Frank Gehry.
• Visit the remarkable cathedral of Leon with its astounding stained glass windows.
• See the tomb of El Cid in the cathedral in Burgos.
• Visit countless ancient monuments that date back to the beginning of Christian times.
• Stay in luxurious monasteries & boutique village inns.
• Trade camino stories with other pilgrims along the way.
• Take part in a “queimada” in the misty ancient village of O Cebreiro.
• Reward your challenge with a triumphal arrival at the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela and earn your Certificate.