Baltic States Motorcycle Tour: Poland to Tallinn

Individual arrival in Gdansk for the start of your Baltic States motorcycle tour. The restored old town with the Crane Gate, Main Town Hall, St. Mary's Church and the Long Market invites you for a first stroll, before the route begins the next morning.

On this stage of your Poland motorcycle tour, you first reach the mighty Marienburg castle, seat of the Teutonic Order in the 14th century. From there, the route continues into the lake-rich landscape of Masuria with its characteristic tree-lined avenues and villages, around 290 km to your overnight stay near Lötzen.

A whole day for your Masuria motorcycle tour, the "land of a thousand lakes". Boyen Fortress, the rare swing bridge in Lötzen, the pilgrimage site of Heiligelinde and Rastenburg line up along beautiful avenues, before you overnight near Lötzen again.

Through rural eastern Poland and southern Lithuania, you reach Kaunas, the second-largest city and cultural center of Lithuania. The old town at the confluence of the Memel and Neris rivers with its 13th-century castle ruins is well worth seeing, this stage covers around 210 to 240 km.

Along the old defensive line on the Memel River, your Curonian Spit motorcycle tour crosses via Klaipeda by ferry onto the spit. Through open forests and over dunes with views of the lagoon, you reach Nida with the Thomas Mann House, this stage covers around 290 to 310 km.

The return journey along the spit road runs partly along the coast through Kurzeme (Courland) to Riga. After the dunes of the spit, the largest city in the Baltic States offers an appealing contrast: lively, historic and modern all at once, this stage covers around 420 km.

On the way to Tartu, you cross the Gauja National Park with its sandstone cliffs and grottoes. Turaida Castle and the Order's castle at Cesis are ideal for a break, and in Tartu the Cathedral Hill, university and Angel's Bridge await you, this stage covers around 260 km.

This Lake Peipus motorcycle tour along the great border lake with Russia continues into Lahemaa National Park and finally to the Estonian capital, Tallinn. The medieval old town with its cobblestone lanes invites an evening walk, this stage covers around 350 km.

This onroad Baltic States motorcycle tour ends on board: the ferry takes you and your motorcycle from Tallinn to Helsinki, and after a short port change you continue on the ferry to Lübeck-Travemünde. Overnight stay on board, departure around 5 pm.

After a day at sea, you reach the port of Lübeck-Travemünde in the evening, where your self-guided Baltic States motorcycle tour ends. Your motorcycle was safely on board for every ferry passage and takes you home from here.