7 Day Experience the Wild: Guided Motorcycle Adventure in Småland, Sweden

Overview

This motorcycle tour in Sweden is made to be as entertaining as possible because your host, Magic Motor Experiences, just loves active riding. If you want to ride on gravel and are a road biker at the level of an experienced off-road biker, this is the package for you; this place is the paradise of gravel. For sure you will enjoy this package. On top of that, there will be some activities, like clay pigeon shooting or visiting the hotel spa, in the evenings, just to get the most out of your adventure bike tour in Sweden. The service is there for you; comfortable 3- or 4-star hotels have also been chosen, which are also rewarded for their meals. If you bring your partner who does not ride a motorcycle, they can go in the support minivan in which the luggage is transported.

Highlights

• Starts and ends in Bolmsö
• Ride the best dirt roads and empty tracks in Scandinavia
• Discover some of the best utility glass and art glass in the world
• Experience single tracks dirt roads and gravel roads in different conditions
• Visit the traditional farm where the film That Boy Emil was recorded
• 6 nights of accommodation at carefully hand-picked 3- or 4-star hotels
• Try clay pigeons shooting, swimming in the lake, or relax in spa
• Free airport transfers

Itinerary

1. Day 1

   Magic Motor Experiences team will pick you up at the airport and take you to the hotel, where they’ve arranged dinner for everyone and will give more information about the tour.

2. Day 2: Bolmsö - Hestra (125 kilometers / 78 miles)

   After a substantial breakfast at the hotel, you pick up your bikes and clothes. You will then practice a little on local gravel roads to prepare. You will try riding on different surfaces to do some brake and balance exercises so that you get comfortable on your own test track during the morning. Just before lunchtime, you are off! You start with some alternate paths, gravel, and asphalt to take the ferry west to a superb fish restaurant where you will have lunch of freshly caught fish. After lunch, you take smaller curving roads through the forests, passing small villages where time has stood

3. Day 3: Hestra - Eksjö (215 kilometers / 134 miles)

   You leave from the Southern Sweden Ski Center. Within a few kilometers, you will have tried several different surfaces—asphalt, gravel, and even grass. Lovely roads up to Taberg Hill, where you have lunch at one of the best views in Småland. After lunch, you drive towards Eksjö, routes that will put a big smile on your face. The roads that wind inside the deep spruce and pine forests have limited visibility with blind curves, so you need to concentrate during this run. You arrive at the hotel, situated next to a lake. Dinner is served at the hotel, with a beautiful view of the lake. After dinn

4. Day 4: Eksjö - Kosta (240 kilometers / 149 miles)

   You eat a buffet breakfast and set off on lovely gravel roads. In fact, during the day you ride a lot on rough gravel, which causes tires to slip as it is so loose. Of course, the tour will try to alternate different types of gravel. The ride today is very entertaining and beautiful; the scenery is great as you ride through hilly landscapes with small farms and with farmland mixed with forest. You make a stop at the Katthult farm, which was the main scene of the character Emil by author Astrid Lindgren, in one of her many famous children’s books—perhaps the most famous of her characters is Pip

5. Day 5: Kosta - Älmhult (190 kilometers / 118 miles)

   In the morning after a buffet breakfast, you look at how to do glass blowing, a craft that requires great skill and experience—it’s wonderful to see how a piece of glass becomes a work of art. Then you leave Kosta and drive on, down to the Blekinge and Skåne border. Initially, you’re on pretty fast gravel roads, then more mixed surfaces with paths and winding roads. In this area, there are plenty of small lakes, and roads run between these through forests and farmland. You will make a lunch stop at a restaurant to recover your energy so that you stay alert in the second half of the day. You’re

6. Day 6: Älmhult - Bolmsö (220 kilometers / 137 miles)

   This is the last day of your adventure bike tour in Sweden. You leave the hotel happy to run down the border between Småland and Skåne, where you take both faster and slower routes. Some of the faster lanes have been used in the South Swedish Rally and have lovely curves where you just want to continue to turn right, left, right, and left. On the slower roads, it becomes a different rhythm, and it requires a little more attention as the surfaces are shifting. Then you have a picnic lunch. In the afternoon, you drive on entertaining gravel roads through wild Småland and will eventually return t

7. Day 7

   After a full breakfast, the Magic Motor Experiences team will drop you off at the airport.

Ride Details

Terrain

mix of tarmac and gravel

Bike

rental bike (Yamaha Tenere 700)

Mileage

990 kilometers / 615 miles

Daily rides

125 - 240 kilometers / 78 - 149 miles

Riding gear

not included, bring your own: Enduro-helmet with integrated chin protector and goggles or full-face helmet, gloves, pants with knee protectors (not leather pants), jacket, elbow protectors and back protector, rain protection clothing, enduro or cross boots, and ankle-height boots or hiking boots

Meals

6 breakfast, 5 lunches, and 6 dinners

Accommodation

You will stay at the best hotels in the area, on a twin-share basis in three- or four-star hotels, rewarded for their excellent meals. In most cases, the hotels are situated in the countryside, mostly next to a lake. There are specific reasons why the Magic Motor Experiences team picked each of the hotels. For example, one might be a former mansion that has now become a hotel, or it could be that the building dates from the 1800s and is part of Swedish cultural heritage with much more atmosphere than modern city hotels. On top of all that, it’s good to enjoy Mother Nature, including the opportunity to take an evening stroll beside a Swedish lake, watching the sun go down. During the bright s

Food

Magic Motor Experiences wants you to enjoy all of your trips, not just when you’re riding. They want everything to be the best they can offer—including food. You will be served six breakfasts, five lunches, and six dinners during the tour. At the hotels, you will have a big selection of their buffet, and then you will stop and have coffee breaks at a nice location and lunch at a restaurant or a picnic. You will have a two or three-course menu at the hotel, rewarded for their delicious meals. For breakfast, you will enjoy a great buffet, which may include yogurt / sour milk, porridge, ingredients such as muesli and cereals, different kinds of sandwiches with various toppings (not fillings, so

Getting There

Sweden is in Northern Europe and is fairly sparsely populated with approximately nine million people over an area of 450,000 square kilometers. It is a modern society with high living standards. In Småland, where Magic Motor Experiences has its offices and conducts its operations, there are thousands of kilometers of winding gravel roads, old paths from the past that have gotten a little bigger ov