Category Archives: Belgium

Walloon

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Walloon (Belgium) is an attractive cyclist destiny with more than 1,800 kilometers of RAVeL, several bike paths with different levels, and about 800 Bienvenue Vélo agents (safe hotels to lock your bike) to make your bike-tourist trip comfortable. Indeed, four EuroVelo cross the zone. Thus, there is a myriad of landscapes to enjoy, from the forest region of Ardennes to the Canal du Centre (Heritage of Humanity) and its four hydraulic elevators. Moreover, there are bike shops, multi-services companies and ebike charging points.

RAVeL means Slow Paths Autonomous Net, or in other words more than 1,800 kilometers for pedaling, 45 itineraries that connect to fourteen national and international routes. You can complete the lakes tour of Eau d’Heure or the VennBahn route. Regarding History, villages such as Fagnolle and Falaën make it well worth the effort as well as the Durbuy and Dinant cities.

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Riding close to leaves?

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Riding a bike has direct impact in protecting environment and trees. The relation between bicycles and trees is expressed to a higher degree at the Bosland National Park (Belgium). Here, not only you can pedal close to trees, but also close to its leaves. This is due to a special bike line between Lommel, Hechtel-Eksen and Pelt known as Fietsen door de Bomen or Cyclign through the Trees. This massive bike circle has a slope of 3% – 4%, is 700 meters long and one 3 meters unidirectional line.

The perfect integration of this infrastructure and nature makes the experience magical. Its designers tell proud that they had in mind flora and fauna respect to determine the bike line. Additional technical issues like the use of minimal machine in the national park or the final ensemble were also put into practice. A metal mesh protects bikers from falling from the top of the bike line.