This route is one of 20 panoramic routes along the Danish Blokhus coastline. Panorama Routes are premium cycle routes offering Hune places to eat, accommodation and entertaining experiences. The routes provide spectacular views, but also secret hideaways with space for quiet contemplation. The Panorama routes are part of the Powered by Cycling: Panorama project supported by the European Regional Development Fund. Pandrup >

Kås Moseby

Cycle Route, 49 km Slettestrand

Bratbjerg Nature’s Treasure Chest Tranum

This route takes you through a landscape of bogs, dunes and exciting scenery. In this unruly landscape, you see how the local population has, over the centuries, mined peat and practised alternative medicine. Experience scenery rich in fragrances and impressions.

Where the route takes you... Facts about the route: The route can be started anywhere, but this guide takes 49 km, of which approx. 33 km paved and 16 km gravel (paths, Gateway Blokhus and its many outdoor facilities as its forest tracks etc.) Effecve cycling me at 16 km/h: 3 hours and starting point. Complete the route ’anti-clockwise’ for the 7 min. Highest point: 30 metres above sea level. Max. 2% slopes. benefit of shelter from the dominating west wind in the Difficulty: Medium (a fair amount of kilometres, but only a few plantations and tailwinds on open sections of the route. hills with moderate slopes). Road safety: the route runs mainly along paths and roads with light traffic, but along major roads Dune plantations and sand drift for approx 8 km with three intersecons. Shortcuts/detours: the Start by cycling southwest along gravel roads among lush route can be shortened by eliminang the trip to Tranum and tall trees where the salt air of the sea mixes with the turning down Koldmosevej on Klithusevej. fragrance of the trees. On a calm day, it may be difficult to imagine the sand drift that ravaged the area from 1500- forest playground, toilets, grocery shop and gallery. A quick 1900. The plantation was established in the middle of the detour to nearby Fosdal (5) offers excellent hiking routes, sand dunes in the latter part of the 19th century. viewing points – and ice cream!

Moors - birds of prey and butterflies The village of the Bratbjerg Man The route continues south along paved and gravel roads Past Tranum Church and towards the village of Bratbjerg out into open moorland (1) , which is full of exciting reptiles, (6) . This was where Chr. Jensen Mann, the Bratbjerg Man insects and birds. Look up: maybe large birds of prey will be lived, a herbalist from a long line of wise men and women. hovering above you. Look down: you may be lucky enough In 1928, the Bratbjerg Man was imprisoned by the to see unusual insects, fluttering butterflies or sun-bathing authorities because they believed that his ’medicine’ was lizards. The route continues through Tranum Dunes. quackery. But as many as 1200 people gathered to protest Experience the impressive dune and the view (2) across the against his imprisonment. The Bratbjerg doctor obviously dunes, the moor and the treetops. had great popular backing. The Bratbjerg lakes can be found at the northern end of the village which also offers a sandwich Poor, sandy agricultural soil shop, water, toilets, barbecues and view of the lakes. The route now takes you out among fields and smallholdings. Notice the crops grown here. The sandy soil Speedway and harmonikas means that they grow more sparsely than in other regions From Bratbjerg, continue out over the low, reclaimed area, of Denmark. The gravel now gives way to concrete roads past the Speedway Track (7) . Hans Nielsen, later world (3) built in 1947. The advantage of concrete is its durability. champion, started out here. The route now takes you over But time takes its toll - even on concrete. Cycle slowly on the former seabed to Koldmose Kirke (8) (Koldmose this stretch where the 70-year-old road may have become Church). From here, onwards on gravel roads and paved worn in places. roads on Udholmvej taking you through the plantation and large open plains. A short detour takes you to the Tranum village near the old sea cliffs Harmonica Museum in the middle of the landscape (9) . The route winds its way along good paved roads through a pleasant area of holiday homes into Tranum. Before The bog and the factory Tranum, you will see the high cliffs (4) which until the Peat diggers and others worked on the bogs and at Stone Age made up the coastline where the waves licked Briketfabrikken (10) ( Briquette Factory) right up until the the high hills. The name Tranum may originate from 1960s. The former Kaas Briquette Factory stands as a ’crane’ (the bird) and ’um’ which means home. The crane is derelict monument to the glory days of peat in the first half now a rare sight in Denmark, but it was previously a of the 20th century. The route takes you along a gravel road frequent sight along the coast. In Tranum, you will find a (continued) Gateway Blokhus Blokhus Nature’s Treasure Chest Hune

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