Białystok and the Green Velo Trail

Your tour begins on a Saturday with your arrival in Warsaw (by flight or train), followed by a 2-hour onward journey by train to Białystok. Here you will spend your first night in a city centre hotel, which will allow you to take in the magnificent Branicki Palace, beautifully renovated houses and fine cafés and restaurants that surround the triangular marketplace. The whole city is covered with a network of cycle paths.

Leaving Bialystok, you travel west along the Green Velo route, stopping for lunch at Tykocin, a pretty town with a large synagogue which dates back to 1642 and is now a museum for Jewish culture. Continuing to Waniewo Village, where you can go for a swim in the river, walk along the marshes, go on to the wooden jetty with hand-operated ferries or investigate the river labyrinth by punting through it. Your accommodation for the night is a guest house right next to Narew National Park, also known as the “Polish Amazon”.

Your tour continues as you spend the day cycling upstream along the Narew Valley. Travelling east, you pass many picturesque villages with colourfully decorated wooden houses which seem to get more delightful the further you go.

Today, you will cycle through the land of the Orthodox Christians through villages with charming wooden churches and chapels until you reach the city of Hajnówka with its imposing Holy Trinity Church. Re-joining the Green Velo route once again, you’ll ride into the primaeval forest of eastern Poland. You’ll spend tonight in a luxury hotel with a swimming pool and a wellness area in Białowieża.

Continue your journey in Puszcza Białowieska – Europe’s last real primaeval forest. Home to wolves, lynxes and the European bison, you will experience nature at its most pristine today. This short stage to your hotel in Narewka means you can take the time to explore the area further by cycling other tracks.

On your way to Supraśl, where you’ll be spending the night in a forest health resort, you’ll pass the large Siemianówka Reservoir, or stop for a swim! Continuing, you’ll find yourself cycling in the shadow of the virgin Knyszyn Forest, a region which overflows with picturesque river valleys. Take a detour to the Polish Orient – Kruszyniany, a village of the Tartars where you’ll find an old mosque within a unique green wooden building.

Before leaving Supraśl to head back to Bialystok, on the newly laid Green Velo cycle trail, visit the 550-year-old Eastern Orthodox monastery for men situated at the Suprasl River.

Departure from Bialystok or spend extra nights in the city. Alternatively, head back to Warsaw by train.

Arrival: Bialystok

Departure: Bialystok

Nearest arrival airport(s): Warsaw or Modlin

Nearest departure airport(s): Warsaw or Modlin

We also recommend travelling by train to all of our cycling holiday starting and departure points. We can help you plan your journey to Bialystok by rail. Car parking is available on all tours at the first hotel or a nearby public parking location. Full details are available on request.

Please do not book travel until an official invoice confirms the cycling holiday.