Introduction

The Elbe Cycle Route goes from Prague on the Vltava (which joins with the Elbe river outside Prague) to Cuxhaven at the North Sea. Bikeline's estimate of the distance is 996Km.

Our plan (see spreadsheet below) was to cycle the distance in 17 days (average 59Km/day) and to rest for 4 days in Sächsische Schweiz, Schloss Moritzburg, Magdeburg and Cuxhaven.

In reality, we cycled 1234Km in 17 days (average 73Km/day).

Much effort went into making the data files listed below. See here for copyright and licensing.

Map

Notes about map:

• green pin: route start
• red pin: route end
• blue pins: campsites - click for (possibly obsolete) URL

Photos

Downloads

Notes about downloads:

• elbe-route-combined.gpx has routes divided into chunks of 250 route points for compatibility with older Garmin devices
• elbe-waypoints-camps.gpx and elbe-route-combined.gpx were both generated from the other two files using scripts in the traveltools repository; they are provided here for convenience