Individual arrival in the metropolis of Lausitz and accommodation.

We leave Cottbus through Branitzer Park, which had been designed to be the last significant German landscape garden of the 18th century, and cycle into the city of Vetschau on the border of the Spreewald.

Today we cycle through a green maze of canals and flows. In the Spreewald village of Lehde, a typical lagoon settlement, a lot of farm houses can be reached only over a narrow bridge or by boat. We should also pay a visit to the museum village. We are welcomed to stop at hearty Spreewald inns before we reach Lübbenau. Accommodation directly in Lübbenau or surroundings.

If we choose the direct way along the Spree dam, we reach Lübben quickly. This way we have time for a boat trip or a visit to the castle, where we can learn historical facts about the Niederlausitz and the Spreewald. Longer alternative routes are possible via the Wotschofska or through the Schlabedorfer post-mining landscape.

The route leads us along quiet paths into the north of the Spreewald, which is not any less attractive for its small number of tourists who come to visit here, where the Spree branches out into many arms and channels. Our destination for today is the Spreewald village of Krausnick or Schlepzig. Longer tours, for instance to Lake Neuendorfer See and into the Krausnicker Mountains, are possible.

Through water meadows along the mainstream of the Spree River and past fishing ponds, we cycle back to Lübben today, and afterwards immerse ourselves in the quiet landscape of the biosphere reserve with its magnificent forests and meadow landscapes. We cycle via Alt Zauche to Straupitz with its interesting Schinkel Church and the old linseed-oil mill. Accommodation in Burg/surroundings.

Individual departure or extension of trip.