What type of Spanish cycling holiday are you interested in?
Andalucia, in southern Spain, is a fantastic destination for your cycling holiday and offers a wide range of choice from easy going leisure cycling holidays, to full on training camps and road cycling holidays to getting off road on your gravel or mountain bike. Another consideration is whether you want to have a local guide, go self-guided or plan the whole trip yourself. Do you want to be based in one place or do a point to point tour? The options are unlimited!
Training Camps in Spain
A training camp that’s totally focused on the bike is extremely popular for any road cyclist who wants to clock up some real miles in the sun in order to improve fitness. These mainly take place before the competitive season at home starts but you can also consider a training camp if you have a sportive or any other cycling event to train for.
Road Cycling Holidays in Spain
Our road cycling holidays are similar to our training camps and are available all year round. The road cycling holidays are a little more relaxed as generally riders are not training for a specific event or race season. Most cyclists just want to enjoy their riding in a beautiful destination on quiet sun kissed roads and of course enjoy a ‘cafe con leche’ in one of the stunning ‘pueblos blancos’ (white villages) that are synonymous with Andalucia.
Family Cycling Holiday
Will you be traveling and/or riding with your family? Cycling holidays are a great way to spend quality time with the family whilst enjoying the great outdoors, exercising together and building some great family memories.
However, some family members might not enjoy cycling as much as you do. My teenage daughter currently doesn’t but my youngest still loves riding with his Dad. Whilst on holiday I will frequently get up very early in the morning and take advantage of the quiet roads, complete a two-hour loop and still be back and had breakfast before said teenage daughter is even out of bed.
Self-Guided Point to Point Cycling Holiday in Spain
A self-guided point to point cycling tour allows you to ride at your own pace whilst immersing yourself in the culture, cuisine and scenery but also experience the lifestyle of the locals. Here in Andalucia you will ride through olive groves, orchards of oranges and lemons and also some of the many local vineyards. The landscape and scenery will leave you breathless even if the cycling does not! There literally is a photo to be taken at every bend in the road, top of the hill or village centre.
Mountain Biking
Spain has a well deserved reputation for having some of the best trails to ride in Europe! Andalucia has some of the best trails to ride in Spain. Enough said really! We have been exploring the Serrania de Ronda, Sierra de Nieves and Grazalema Natural park for many years and there are trails here to suit all abilities. The White Villages are joined together by vehicle width dirt tracks so you can ride XC all day no problem. We have also discovered many kilo-meters of quality single track trails that will get the heart rate up and the adrenalin pumping
Gravel Biking
With our vast knowledge of the local area we have also been able to develop routes suitable for gravel biking. Locally, gravel biking hasn’t really take off, I still get a lot of strange looks from the local mountain bikers when I am out on my gravel bike hitting the trails. I love it! I’m sure you will too.
Leisure Cycling Holidays
As it says on the tin a gentle paced week of leisure cycling visiting many of the white villages of Andalucia. Where, of course, we would stop for refreshments and the change to explore each village by foot. A leisure cycling holiday can be enjoyed by anyone who can ride a bike, loves the outdoors and likes to immerse themselves in the local culture whilst on holiday. Let’s face it holidays are better by bike.
With all of the trips above we take time to develop the routes, adjust them to your holiday requirements, schedule and fitness. If you love being off the beaten track, riding on roads less travelled, to traditional white villages through stunning scenery then you need look no further.
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