Magical Adventure Tour 2022

The tour will be 12days/ 11nights, with 9 days riding. 2022 Tour Date: 20 June to 1 July 2022

The Croatia Adventure tour is designed primarily for riders looking for adventure but is adjusted to be accessible to riders of various levels of off-road experience.

The focus of this motorcycle tour is to see the lesser-known parts of Croatia by combining surfaced and unpaved back roads. The scenery is staggeringly beautiful, and the riding is challenging but very satisfying.

It is important to emphasize that this adventure tour is much more physically demanding than our regular tours on hard surface roads, we all can expect some fatigue, which however, will be offset by this incredible experience.

It is an exciting combination of fantastic riding, beautiful accommodation, Croatian food and world-famous attractions in the stunningly gorgeous country of Croatia.

You will be accompanied by us, Karel and Howard, and our local Croatian Guide Robert, (pictured with wife Andrea), which will make this a truly unbelievable adventure you will never forget!

Some of the walled cities and castles in Croatia were used as sets for the Game of Thrones TV Series, they were made for the tour, about 800 years ago . Come “feel” Croatia with us! Tour cost: $NZ

Single rider $9000

Pillion $6000

Single Person Solo Room upgrade $1080

If you want to join us, please let us know asap as places are limited.

We will require a deposit of $2000 per person to confirm your place once you book on and we have contacted you to confirm your specific requirements.

Full payment is required 8 weeks before the start of the Tour. Inclusions:

• Late model motorcycle with top box. Bikes are to be confirmed but expect a 650-850cc, V-Strom 650, BMW F700/750/850 etc.

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• VIP Luggage service – we will carry your luggage and deliver it to your hotel room daily • Support van to accompany the tour. • Experienced guides– you will have 3 guides riding with you, (Howard and Karel plus their local Croatian guide Robert) • Comprehensive bike and third-party insurance. • 11 Nights’ accommodation in quality hotels, mostly 4 – 5 star, on a share twin/double basis (upgrade to single room available) • Dinner, Breakfast and Lunches every day on the ride, except for the lay day. • Ferry tickets where required for island “hopping”. • Entrance fees to National Parks Not Included:

Flights, drinks at dinner, lunch/dinner on the lay day, fuel for the bike, tolls when on toll roads. Tour Details 12 Days/ 9 riding days Starts /Ends: , Croatia Total Distance: 2,000 kms Daily Ride distance Between 200km to 350km Rest days in the area Highlights of the ride: Zagreb, Opatija, Peninsula, Pag Island, Brac Island, Riviera, Peljesac Peninsula, Cavtat, Plitvice lakes

Itinerary Day 1, Zagreb By this day you will have arrived at Zagreb, the capital of Croatia. Today enjoy sightseeing of the city and traditional welcome dinner.

Day 2, Zagreb Before lunch a tour briefing with discussion on the routes, roads, bikes, etc. After lunch a short Motorcycle ride to get familiar with the bike and riding in Europe.

Day 3, Island Start of ride is after breakfast, at the bikes at 8 AM in front of hotel. A lot of riding today. Our mission for this first day is to reach island Krk, we will have about 40 km off road through the heart of Gorski Kotar and also about 100 km narrow mountain roads through beautiful landscape. The rest is through main country roads. Lunch on the road and dinner in Hotel.

Day 4, Opatija (Kvarner region) 2

In the morning, we start of our day’s journey with two short ferry rides (from island Krk to island , and from island Cres to the Istria Peninsula. Following this is a combination of hilly, small, coast roads, off-road through woods. Beautiful landscapes, all to reach hotel in Ičići – Opatija.

Day 5, On this day you will experience combination of most beautiful coast roads in Croatia and famous gravel road across the Velebit mountain, Majstorska road built in the 19th century. All day heading toward Zadar, our final destination for the night.

Day 6, Split This is a big day, with more off road riding. Off road through Dinara mountains. Many kilometers of pure off-road satisfaction. Split is our destination.

Day 7, Cavtat, Dubrovnik We leave Split, using incredibly beautiful coast roads, without off-road part this day, but with goal to reach Biokovo mountain, 1750 m high. From there we will continue toward most southern point of our trip, Cavtat near the famous Dubrovnik city.

Day 8, Rest Day, This is a rest day and an opportunity to explore one of the top tourist destinations in the world, Dubrovnik city. We will go to Dubrovnik old city harbour by taking water taxi directly from Cavtat city where we will stay for two nights. We recommend that you to visit the famous Walls of Dubrovnik, and/or take the cable car to to the viewpoint. This will take until early afternoon and after that the day is yours.

Day 9, Peljesac peninsula Our last off-road day, riding on the Pelješac peninsula. Incredible roads, a beautiful off-road part. Visiting the city of Ston, a place with the oldest and longest preserved walls in the world after the Great Wall of China. Final destination is Orebić city, and we strongly recommend visiting Korčula city in the evening. City of famous traveller Marko Polo.

Day 10, Plitvice lakes We have a fairly long ride today to Plitvice lakes. It’s a World Heritage park that attracts visitors from all over the world. We will use the Croatian freeways, which have a 130kph speed limit, for most of the day. The riding is picturesque and interesting.

Day 11, Zagreb After breakfast, visit the fabulous Plitvice Lakes National Park. After an early lunch we will return to Zagreb through the continental part of Croatia. Arriving in Zagreb, our trip is has come to an end.

Day 12, Zagreb departure day or you can of course stay on in Zagreb at the hotel if you choose.

As Croatia is quite central in Europe there is ample opportunity to arrange your own extra rides on hired bikes or take personal trips to other famous places in Europe, Italy, Switzerland, Montenegro, Greece are all nearby.

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Our Tour partner Robert in Croatia is happy to look at any guided tours that you may want him to help you with, of course this will need to be arranged well in advance.

Flights/Travel arrangements

We have a preferred travel agent that we use for arranging bookings. They have a great travel app, but more importantly, they can be contacted 24/7 which can be very useful when you need to change things, or when things don’t go to plan. Travel Insurance

We highly recommend that you purchase travel insurance that INCLUDES riding a motorcycle greater than 200cc. Orbit World travel have their own insurance to cover this, it’s called Adventure Insurance. Finally:

Call us if you’d like to talk anything over, we love talking about our tours

Karel +64 27 6998089

Howard +64 21 125 9052

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