Introduction

Ten years ago we cycled the Elbe cycle path and we wanted to do it again but with a bit more Czechia! So we combined parts of three previous trips, namely: Elbe, Vltava and Sieben Flüsse. To mitigate any Covid-related disruption over the summer, we made a plan that – even at the last minute – could omit foreign countries without requiring rebooking long-distance train trips and could start from our own front door if necessary. So was born "Elbe Unczeched"! Assuming no Covid-related disruption, the route starts at Marktredwitz (on the German/Czech border), enters Czechia, returns to Germany and finishes in Hamburg, a total distance of 1261Km.

Our plan (see spreadsheet below) was to cycle the distance in 19.5 days (average 65Km/day) and to rest for 4.5 days in Mariánské Lázně, Plzeň, Dresden, Magdeburg and Hamburg (but definitely not in Praha, in which you can't move for all the tourists).

In reality, we cycled 1378Km in 19.5 days (average 71Km/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
• the map shows our actual track, not our planned route, but from the campsite locations it should be clear than we considered starting from Munich

Photos

Downloads

Notes about downloads:

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