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Southern Olive Groves

Moderate 35%

Easy 65%

Linia is an area in the Southern West side of Corfu and we refear ot it for this tour as a characteristic place of Olive Groves. Actually this tour involves more areas, like Alevroparion, Agios Georgios, Argyrades ecc. All villages close to the Korission's Lake, which of course we are going to be visiting.

The goal for this tour is to get the bikers to come into a close contact with the cultivation of the Olive trees in the Southern Island of Corfu.

Thousands of Olive trees are to be found where even the locals wouldn’t all know about it. Just aside of well know touristic urbanized zones, the olive groves and the green are simply hided and waiting to be discovered. Mountain biking is the best way to do it since the visitor has the opportunity to visit more places faster and with almost absolute silence. In the Summer those place are full of cicadas.

Our tour can start in any of the known southern villages of Corfu island, since it consists in a big circle in the area. The terrain is accidental with stones, grass and few sand. Of course some sections are placed on tarmac, just to guide us into the next green and unurbanized nature are of Corfu.

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Analipsis Area MTB Tour

Strenuous 20%

Moderate 50%

Easy 30%

In this Mountain Bike tour we will explore the paths at the area around Analipsis village. This area is characterized by a dense system of narrow tarmac & gravel roads that intersect themselves in some cases.

We will be mainly moving on country side roads rather than main roads. Actually main roads won't be more than a couple of Kilometers in the whole route that we need to face.

Nature is quite dense with olive trees, pine trees, bushes and flowers, especially in the spring.

The effort in this route, as usual for the biking in the country roads of Corfu, is a mixture of of medium effort while climbing and chill out riding on flat or down the hills. Expect climbing & descending in a stable rythm as it would be in a roller coaster park.

By moving on the country roads we will be able to pass through the villages of Agios Basileios, Ano Korakiana, Kato Korakiana, Analipsis, Agios Markos, Ipsos & Pirgi with their many traditional houses.

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Crab Lake & Durrel's Farm

Strenuous 10%

Moderate 60%

Easy 30%

This a classic sportive MTB tour with a combination of off road tracks.

It can be started both from Corfu Town or "Gouvia" area and gets into the green area of "Poulades".

Olive trees, low bushes , tarmac, gravel and countryside narrow roads, climbing and descending, birds, hawks, are some of the characteristic labels of this route.

Target is the "Grab Lake", a small lake situated in the middle of a green "nowhere".

What follows next is one of the off-road tracks that leads towards one of the "Durrel's" houses and particullary their farm, close to another nature's "middle of nowhere" land, the so-called "Gaidarana Lake".

"Gaidarana Lake" is a big protected nature area, an old system of lot small lakes that were almost esicated in the middle of 1800's by the Venetian authorities.

The "Gaidarana" area these days is used for horse farming and we are going to cross it all along on mountain bikes.

The nature of the area is green and dense and we will sure find time for a small snack and drink brake within our ride.

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Governor & Paleo Cave MTB Tour

Moderate 100%

This is one of the the most amazing bike tours of Corfu Island. The adventure begins some Km away from “Agios Mathaios” village, with sections onto the main road but also onto narrow countryside roads of south Corfu.

Our stops will sure include the 20.000 years old Paleolithic cave known by the name of “Grava Gardikiou”, which is situated on a hill’s roots just 200m away from the main road. This cave is the oldest of the more than 200 caves on Corfu Island.

The name of this cave derives by the close presence of a Byzantine / Eastern Roman Empire castle, named “Gardiki”, which is considered build in the 13th century. This castle was protecting the far west borders of the Konstantinopoli against Pirates and Italian small states incursions.

In the past, close to “Gardiki” castle, the village “Zygonos” was found but the well known Pirate “Hayreddin Barbarossa Pasha” (1478- 1546 a.D.), that was offering naval services to the Ottoman Empire the whole 16th century, destroyed it. All the sourounding land and its products were destroyed too, while some 20.000 Corfiot citizens were sold as slaves in the far East and North African markets.

More close to the modern era and in the same south area of Corfu, we will have the opportunity to visit the WWI’s military Serbian camp’s spring of 1916 and what’s leftover of the WWII‘s German AA emplacements in the region. We will also have the opportunity to proceed close to the West coast line and through the dense olive tree countryside.

One of our stops, close to “Agios Matheos” village, involves the visit to the 1 out of the best 10 oil of olive production establishment’s in the whole world. It’s oil is world wide known by the name of “The Governor”.

Being lucky in this Bike tour means trying also to visit the “Livados Winery”, just further to the south of these suroundings, before turning back and heading close to our starting point.

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Sokraki Downhill MTB

Moderate 10%

Easy 90%

We will be transferred by car, us and our bikes, up in one of the most spectacular & green hills of Corfu Island. That would the hill that on top of it, at almost 400m above sea level, “Sokraki” Village is situated.

Before we start our downhill, we will have the opportunity to pay a visit on a panoramic place overlooking the whole part of our cycling route towards sea level.

As soon as we start, the “snake” road, the amazing view of the distant ocean and the “Ano Korakiana” village laying underneath, will strike us deep in the heart.

Afterwards we will rapidly descent passing through the traditional “Korakiana” village, following a big drop, while immediately after the smooth descent towards “Agios Markos” village, will keep us refreshed with the flow of the outdror air.

The road is full of green, olive trees, fig trees, grapes, lemon trees and much vegetation.

Our downhill tour will end at sea level, at “Ipsos” beach, where we are going to enjoy a soft drink and admire the calm sea.

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MTB up to Achiles Palace

Strenuous 30%

Moderate 70%

We will start from Corfu town, cycling towards “Gastourion” Village Hill, about 4 miles / 6,3 Km away, following an almost straight paved path with no shorts of any difficult climbing.

What follows next it’s the climbing to this very old village, with its “Achillean Palace” build for Empress Elizabeth of Austria (Sissy).

There we will make a walking tour inside the Palace & have a stop for some soft drinks into a fantastic Café, with a spectacular view of the Eastern Ionian sea.

After that, we will face an easy, fresh and speedy downhill with marvelous cornering down to the sea of “Perama”.

We will continue to follow the seaside road all that way towards the national airport & pass across the sea lake through a narrow bridge, before arriving again in Corfu Town.

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Boukaris Coastline MTB Tour

Moderate 100%

This bicycle tour is really special for coastline lovers. It starts close to “Moraitika” village, through the “Messonghi” river and follows the great roller coaster road that develops for at least 8 km near the coast line. The overview of the north part of Corfu Island is magnificent and in the path some really small bays with restaurants and coffee shops will give us a chance to stop for a refreshment, while enjoying the inviting sea and mountainous nature on the horizon. After our break stop, we will proceed with a right turn returning back to our starting point.

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Ano Korakiana by MTB

Strenuous 5%

Moderate 35%

Easy 60%

Starting from “Dassia” village, we will proceed to “Ipsos” beach, and that is the warming up of our tour, since this initial few kilometers are almost quite flat without significant changes in altitude. Following a paved narrow alley to the picturesque village of “Agios Marcos” (Saint Mark), an old Venetian settlement of carefully restored stone houses and a “Byzantine” (Eastern Roman) chapel, we will start to climb slowly towards the highest point of our ride. The climb that follows after “Agios Markos”, it is softerand leads towards out peak goal, which is the village of “Ano Korakiana”, one of the most colorful & traditional villages of Corfu island. These foothills of mount “Pantokratoras”, Corfu's tallest peak, offers stunning views of the island’, wide plains and of course of “Dassia” & “Ipsos” Bay. In the “Ano Korakiana” village we will pause our cycling efforts at a local café shop to enjoy a tradition snack, before starting to downhill in order meet the scenic seaside road that leads back to “Dassia” village.

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Mount Pantokrator Downhill Gravel

Moderate 35%

Easy 65%

Gravel (3,13 Miles - 5Km)

This is probably one of the best MTB tour on Corfu Island. It involves gravel, tarmac and the most spectacular panoramic of the Island.

Firstly we have to get on the top of the tallest mountain of Corfu Island. This is Mount “Pantokrator” (Mount Almighty) which is 910m (2950ft) tall. This mountain overlooks the whole island from North to South. It is not strange that monks have used its top for building their monastery.

Our car will transfer us up there along with our bikes. From that mountain we will perform a really long descent all the way down to the east coast of the island reaching sea level.

Initially we will start at around 900m above sea level and slowly descent to around 700m. Lots of turns & stone road will challenge our skills.

This initial view of Greece / Albania / North Epirus sea straights will be breath taking. The tall hills surrounding our tour will teleport us back in antiquity time, where men use to live almost away from any kind of sea civilization by the fears of Pirate nations.

First 5 kilometers of the descent are on gravel, while the rest 10km will be on tarmac. By saying this we need to clear out that part of the tour will be a bit slow and part a bit speedy. But anyways one think is for sure.... we are going to love this remarkable activity!

Tarmac (6,63Miles – 10,7Km)

We will proceed with the descent from 700m to almost 50m above sea level while being only on tarmac. We will enjoy full down hill through unique green areas, trees, bushes, narrow roads & a couple of villages.

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Corfu Town MTB SeeSights

Moderate 5%

Easy 95%

Our tour starts close to the port & initially unfolds itself through the narrow paths of the middle ages Corfu Town, where we will have the opportunity to admire the old Venetian style of construction plus the two “Venetian” fortresses of the town. On the suburbs of Corfu we will be able to pass by the ancient temples of “Diana”, “Hera” & “Apollo” of 6th century B.C. Close to them, we will meet two of the oldest Christian churches of the island, functional or ruined, “Iasonas & Sosipatros” Apostole’s temple & the Byzantine (Eastern Roman) “Neragiha” Virgin Mary’s temple, situated by the ancient city walls. But that is not all. Close to them is located also the oldest monastery of the island, the “Saints Theodoros”, 5th century A.D.. We will also visit “Kanoni” (canon) area with its majestic view overlooking the famous “Mouse Island”, the former king’s of Greece Palace, a green area full of thousands of different plants & of course the former British Governor Palace with its ancient Doric style construction, prior to the conclusion of our tour.