A new, free website – Cycle Tours Global – which offers the world’s most comprehensive database and search engine for bicycle tours across the planet, has been launched for travellers who prefer to explore the globe on two wheels.
Designed to take the legwork out of searching for the best cycle tours, www.cycletoursglobal.com profiles more than 5500 bike tours in 104 countries on six continents in one place and in the same format.
Tours range from a 1.5 hour ramble along Manly Beach in Sydney for A$89 and a 4-day, US$910 tulip tour through Holland to an epic 132-day Silk Route adventure across Asia from Shanghai to Istanbul costing US$11,900.
Developed by Australian cyclist, Bruce Robertson, Cycle Tours Global provides a hub for a world of guided cycling tours, from rides across the English countryside, Tuscan vineyards and Canadian Rockies to the vineyards and chateaux of the Loire Valley, the deserts of Mongolia and the vastness of the Australian outback.
Longer rides include a 49-night Orient Express ride from Paris to Istanbul, a 79-day trans-Europe journey from St Petersburg to Lisbon, a 51-day trip across the United States, and a 120-day African adventure from Cairo to Cape Town.
The website allows users to search for tours by date, length, region, cost, difficulty level and also by themes, such as food and wine, music, family, charity, women-only or gay and lesbian.
Ratings and reviews from fellow cyclists are also featured, with links to tour operator websites so bookings and inquiries can be made direct.
