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Worldwide Cycling Holidays

Travel further than you can on foot and enjoy the freedom of your bike on a KE cycling holiday. We have decades of accumulated experience of worldwide adventure cycling and our itineraries are carefully created by our cycling experts with cycling routes to suit all levels of ability. Whether you fancy a leisurely e-biking journey or a challenging gravel tour, we probably offer what you are looking for.

Free bike hire is included on leisure cycling tours, with options to upgrade to an e-bike, plus all cycling holidays include daily luggage transfers. Fully supported back up vehicles are offered on most of our small group guided adventures and 24/7 phone support and route notes or mobile app are provided on our self-guided cycling holidays.

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KE Adventure: Experts in Cycling Holidays

We have more accumulated experience of worldwide adventure cycling than any other tour operator, and our itineraries are carefully created by our cycling experts with adventures to suit all levels of ability. Whether you fancy a leisurely e-biking journey exploring the best of the Algarve, a challenging European road cycling ride over the famous Tour du France cols, or a gravel road adventure on the south island circuit of New Zealand, we have what you are looking for.

Leisure Cycling Holidays

Our leisure cycling holidays are on quiet roads or cycle paths with no technical cycling. Amongst our easiest cycling holidays, they have a strong cultural and sightseeing focus with plenty of time off the bike. Easy-to-ride hybrid bikes work well and bike hire is usually included in the holiday cost.

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Road Cycling Holidays

Our road cycling holidays follow surfaced roads throughout, covering relatively long distances best tackled on a Tour de France-style road bike with drop handlebars. One of the key advantages lies in the bikes themselves; high-quality road bikes are designed for speed, efficiency, and comfort, ensuring a smooth and exhilarating ride, ultimately enabling further stretches of terrain to be explored.

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Self-Guided Cycling Holidays

Discover the best cycle routes in Europe on a self-guided cycling holiday. Enjoy cruising along the Danube from Passau to Vienna or exploring the beautiful Lake Constance, safe in the knowledge you can power through and pedal on, or linger as you please over a long lunch in the sun. Self-guided holidays let you complete your journey at your own pace.

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Adventure Cycling Holidays

Our adventure cycling holidays vary from relatively easy to epic, either on tarmac or dirt roads. A mountain bike fitted with semi-slick tyres (or low rolling resistance cross-country tyres) is ideal for these journeys.

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Family Cycling Holidays

Family cycling holidays offer a unique and rewarding way for families to bond, explore, and create lasting memories together. These holidays combine the joys of adventure and physical activity with quality family time. One of the great advantages of our family holidays is that they cater to a wide range of ages and fitness levels, making them accessible to everyone in the family.

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E-Biking Cycling Holidays

E-bikes, equipped with electric motors, provide an extra boost of power that makes pedalling slightly easier, ensuring that cyclists of varying fitness levels can embark on memorable journeys together. This inclusivity allows families, friends, and even solo travellers to share in the joy of exploration, irrespective of their biking experience. E-bikes also enable riders to cover greater distances and tackle challenging terrains with ease, opening up a world of scenic routes and remote destinations that may have been otherwise out of reach.

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Group Cycling Holidays

Join the pelaton and share the adventure on two wheels. Along with a specialist local cycling leader and your new group of cycling friends you get the added bonus of camaraderie with a group cycling holiday.

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Last Minute Cycling Holidays

Planning a last-minute cycling holiday can be exhilarating, but when you’re tight on time, we’re here with guaranteed departures or self-guided itineraries which you can simply book and we’ll arrange the logistics.

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More Information About Cycling Holidays

We have an array of cycling trips to cater for cyclists of all abilities - from those hoping to cruise through a new destination with relative ease, to the racers hoping to push themselves and tackle some of the worlds’ hardest routes.

A basic level of cycling ability and fitness is required on all our cycling trips. For the more challenging trips, a strong level of fitness is required, and lots of practice and experience before attending the cycling holiday is expected.

To show the relative difficulty of our cycling holidays, each trip is graded on a scale of 1 to 12, with 12 being the most challenging.

Cycling Grades

We want to help you choose the right holiday so we've graded our cycling holidays on a scale from 1 to 12, with 1 being the easiest and 12 being the most challenging. These grades are divided into leisurely, moderate, challenging and tough. Our scale provides an indication of the difficulty of each trip. If you need further advice on choosing the right grade for you, please call our cycling experts in the KE office.

Recent Cycling Holiday Reviews

Cycle Madagascar - Highlands to the Coast

★ ★ ★ ★

A Cycling Extravaganza in a Unique Country

This was an amazing trip, with plenty of exposure to the flora, fauna, culture, food, climate, and topography of this unique Island. The accommodations were clean and safe. The food was representative of the country and the regions were we traversi...

By Timothy from campbell river, bc, canada | August 27, 2024

Victoria Falls to Cape Town

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Challenging and rewarding trip!

Cycling and camping in Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia and South Africa was an immersive experience. You really get to absorb the environment and get a strong introduction to the culture and day to day life....

By Barb from florida, usa | July 29, 2024

Self-Guided Cycling in Italy - The Prosecco Tour

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Lovely week of cycling, eating and wine

This was a lovely week of cycling in the Italian countryside, we really enjoyed riding through the pretty rural landscapes with the backdrop of the Tyrolean foothills, eating lots of delicious Italian food and sampling the local wines. We changed th...

By Mei from windermere | June 20, 2024

Victoria Falls to Cape Town

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Victoria Falls to Cape Town Bike Epic

This trip has a varied itinerary with enough cycling to satisfy the need for activity. Some of the gravel cycling was tough with corrugation, rockiness and sand, at times all at once. Overall, the hilly sections of the trip were comfortable to do wit...

By Johanne from canada | June 4, 2024

Worldwide Adventure Holidays

We offer over 360 active adventures in 100 countries worldwide. Best known for our pioneering itineraries and challenging trips with an 'edge', we also offer a range of easier guided and self-guided walking, cycling, family and wildlife journeys throughout the world. Based in Keswick in the Lake District, we are passionate about creating unique travel experiences for our customers.

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Worldwide Cycling Holidays

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