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This year, we spent 12 days traipsing about in South Moravia in the Czech Republic. The highlight of this years trip was a bike ride in the Czech Highlands (south of Prague and NW of Vienna). South Moravia is a fantastic place to bike and hike as there is an incredible marked trail system all over the area. Czechs are very avid hikers and bicyclists so you'll see them on the trails all over during summer.
This website gives a lot of good info on the area
http://www.south-moravia.info
And if you go here
http://www.south-moravia.info/adamov/
and then click on "View map", it'll take you to a map where you can see the hiking and biking trails. You can use the mouse to go to areas outside of Adamov. There's probably a direct link to this nifty map, but this works.
This is a tourist destination and most people in the tourist industry will speak English. However, don't expect signs outside of the tourist towns (like Slavonice and Telc) to have English, so it's a bit of an adventure linguistically. I read/speak Czech so I can't really evaluate how much of an adventure it is. There are guides who do guided and self-guided bike tours (self-guided means you are own your own but they make all the accommodation arrangements and give you a route and map.)
Here are the photo trip reports:
Czech Highlands: Jihlave-Telc-Slavonice (3-days)
http://picasaweb.google.com/e2holmes/JihlaveSlavoviceOnBike#
Moravska Trebova area (N of Brno; day trips)
http://picasaweb.google.com/e2holmes/BikingInMoravia#
Moravian Karst (hikes/day trips)
http://picasaweb.google.com/e2holmes/MacochaCaves#
http://picasaweb.google.com/e2holmes/NovyHradBikeTripJuly2010#
Various other Moravian destinations
Olomouc: http://picasaweb.google.com/e2holmes/OlomoucTrip#
Sternberk Castle (the unknown one): http://picasaweb.google.com/e2holmes/Sternberk#
Pernstejn Castle: http://picasaweb.google.com/e2holmes/PernstejnJuly2006#
A few tips:
* Bikes are allowed on the trains. Look for the "bike" symbol on train. That's where you put them. If you need to load your bike in the luggage area (a separate train area), then take off your luggage on the rack. Otherwise the conductor will charge extra for that. This was only the case on one train we were on; the others were self-load areas.
* Get an all-day bike ticket (about $5 per bike) from the conductor. Otherwise you'll pay for each train ($2.50) and it'll really add up.
* Purchase your tickets from the train station (it's cheaper). There are discounts for students and groups of 4+.
* Any big bookstore will have the tourist/hiking/biking maps for the Czech Republic. There are 1:50000 maps for each area that shows the hiking and biking trails (in Czech, German, Russian and English).
* Many places do not take credit cards, but the bigger towns will have ATM machines and your US ATM card will work.
* The bigger towns will have bike shops.
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