Pyrenees Motorcycle Tour – Winding Mountain Passes

This Pyrenees motorcycle tour sets off at 8 am from the meeting point near Lörrach. The route crosses the Swiss border, passes Lake Geneva, and continues through the Chartreuse mountain massif and the Isère department to the day's destination, Valence. Daily distance: approx. 500 km.

On this Spain France motorcycle tour you continue through French countryside full of curves. Highlights include the rugged karst mountains of the Ardèche foothills, the Cévennes, and the Gorges du Tarn near Millau. Overnight in Millau, approx. 320 km of riding.

This onroad Pyrenees motorcycle tour first leads to the Millau Viaduct, the tallest cable-stayed bridge in the world. From there, a very winding road takes you via Carcassonne to the first foothills of the Pyrenees and on to the hotel in Ax-les-Thermes, approx. 300 km.

Today the route takes you through the southern French Pyrenees to the Font-Romeu solar furnace and onward towards Andorra. This Andorra Pyrenees motorcycle tour brings you to the Mirador Roc del Quer viewpoint before continuing to La Seu d'Urgell in Catalonia, approx. 250 km.

This Catalonia Aragon motorcycle tour crosses the Coll de Jou, the Coll de Bòixols and the Coll de Faidell – 180 kilometres of curve after curve. In the evening you reach Boltana in Aragon, where two nights allow you to rest and recharge, approx. 300 km.

Today's half-day excursion takes you to Ordesa y Monte Perdido National Park. On this Ordesa National Park motorcycle excursion you swap your motorcycle for a 4x4 bus and explore gorges, rock faces and the home of the bearded vulture with a ranger. Return to Boltana, approx. 90 km.

Along partly narrow roads of the pre-Pyrenees, this demanding mountain motorcycle tour leads to Pamplona, a major stop on the Way of St. James. In the afternoon a German-speaking city tour awaits you through the old town and past the historic bullring, approx. 250 km.

This own-motorcycle tour through France crosses the Col d'Esnazu and the Alto de Urquiaga into the French Basque Country. In the afternoon you reach Biarritz, the former fishing village and now a seaside resort on the Atlantic, approx. 150 km.

Back in the foothills of the French Pyrenees, you follow in the tracks of the Tour de France, including over the Col de Marie-Blanque. In the afternoon you reach the famous pilgrimage site of Lourdes, where you can visit the Grotte de Massabielle, approx. 250 km.

One of the most famous Pyrenees mountain pass roads for motorcycles is on today's agenda: the Col Tourmalet, at 2,115 metres the highest paved pass in the French Pyrenees. In the afternoon you leave the mountains behind, heading towards Carcassonne, approx. 250 km.

After a photo stop at the medieval fortress of La Cité, this Ardèche Cévennes motorcycle tour leads to the Gorges de l'Ardèche with its rapids, 180 metres below the road. You then head back to Valence via the motorway, approx. 500 km.

This Black Forest start motorcycle tour ends where it began: via the motorway you head back towards Lörrach in the southern Black Forest, where in the late afternoon the twelve-day motorcycle tour through the Pyrenees comes to an end, approx. 500 km.