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Day 6: Riedenburg – Roth. Bike tour: 50-60 km

Today’s bike tour will lead you along the Main-Donau canal. The bike rides will mostly be on gravel cycle paths, as you will see many others along this canal. Passing by the village of Beilngries, after a short break, you carry on through the Altmühl valley to Plankstetten, where the iconic Benedictine monastery on the edge of the forest, founded in 1129, dominates the surroundings.

After a coffee stop at a traditional German bakery, you will continue cycling to your last cycle destination Roth, where you’ll board the Merlijn.

Some parts of these days bike tours will lead along the abandoned old Ludwig-Donau-Main Canal, which at one time linked the Rhine with the Danube at Kelheim. The canal was named after King Ludwig I of Bavaria, and built between 1836 and 1846. Construction of the roughly parallel but much larger Rhine–Main–Danube Canal that we know today was started in 1921, but wasn’t completed until 1992.

(See https://www.merlijn.nu/our-tours/199/bavarian-danube-tour-in-germany.html )