Sydostleden Forest & Coast Bike Tour
6 days / 5 nights
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Highlights
- Reach Lake Åsnen, a national park since 2018, at the end of the first day
- Sleep in Karlshamn, a 17th-century harbour town with a fortress island in its bay
- Cross the 756-metre cycle bridge over the bay at Sölvesborg
- Visit the visitor centre built out over the river in Kristianstad's wetlands
- Climb the Brösarp hills into apple country and sleep by the harbour in Kivik
- Finish in Ystad, whose half-timbered lanes were Wallander's beat
Choose your style
What’s included in the price?
Self-guided
Those who like good adventure and limitless flexibility should go on a self-guided cycling holiday. It offers complete freedom, multiple detour opportunities, and exploration at your own pace without having to adapt to a group.
INCLUDED
OPTIONAL EXTRAS
Combines 3- and 4-star hotels, guesthouses, and B&Bs with private en-suite rooms and breakfast, and one night in a simple village hotel with shared bathrooms, where breakfast is included too. Comfortable properties are prioritized — the simpler night is included only where the route requires it.
These are examples of the type and standard you can expect. Actual properties may vary depending on availability.
Sweden's second national cycle route has an unusual shape: it starts in the middle of a forest and ends on a beach. From Växjö, among the lakes of Småland, the Sydostleden runs south to the Baltic at Karlshamn, then west along the Blekinge coast and down into Skåne. Our version finishes in Ystad, five riding days and 267 km later.
Three landscapes, one after the other. Lake and forest first: Åsnen's islands, small roads where the traffic is a tractor. Then the coast: Karlshamn's island fortress, the salmon river Mörrum, the long bridge at Sölvesborg, oak woods running down to inlets. Finally Österlen, the corner of Sweden that painters and cooks moved to: apple orchards, rolling hills at Brösarp, fishing villages at Vitemölla and Kivik.
The riding stays flat for the first three days, on cycle paths, old railway beds and quiet lanes; the hills of Österlen arrive on the last two, and none of them is long. A trekking bike is enough, and an e-bike flattens them.
The beds, the luggage transfer and the route on your phone are taken care of; a bike we can arrange if you wish, trekking, gravel or e-bike, delivered to the first night's door.
The route is a country trail and the beds follow it: hotels in the towns, a lakeside inn or a farm B&B in Urshult, an orchard-country guesthouse at Kivik, and on some dates a small Swedish cabin all to yourselves. Where the house has no kitchen in the evening we arrange dinner nearby and note it in your guidebook.
Ystad is also the first night of the Sydkustleden, so the two routes can be joined: ride the Sydostleden to Ystad, then carry on west along the south coast to Helsingborg.
It is the quietest of our five Swedish routes, and the one to choose if you want forest before you want sea.
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