Motorcycling in Greece and the Balkans: choosing the right route!

The choice of itinerancy as a travel goal, particularly on a motorcycle, reveals a pronounced taste for almost total freedom, and this is the essential promise of a road trip.

The freedom to come and go as we please, to leave when we feel like it, to ride in the fresh air in harmony with the environment, to stop whenever we like for a break or a photo.

A road trip is also about the excitement of driving, the thrill of winding roads, the beauty of panoramas and monuments, and the authentic encounters you make along the way or during a stopover.

Whether you're looking for a taste of adventure, the chance to explore new territories, or simply the thrill of winding your way along beautiful roads, a road trip is an incomparable experience.

But the secret of a successful road trip lies above all in a good itinerary, one that takes you on roads that are really worth the detour, both for the thrill and the discovery, while providing optimal traffic and safety conditions.

At Hellenic Rides, we don't just select itineraries: we design them ourselves, exploring every route, testing every itinerary, and recognizing them several times before proposing them to you.

Specialists in Greece and the Balkans, our expertise and knowledge of the terrain enable us to offer routes of varying lengths and profiles to explore and discover diverse and magnificent regions.

But how do you choose between all our tours when you don't know the destination?

Here's a simple guide to help you find your way around and make your choice.

What all our tours have in common

To sum it up in two words: escape and adrenalin.

In fact, all our road trips will allow you to take in the sights, and enjoy yourself on superb roads along the coast or in the mountains, with plenty of opportunities to marvel.

- Spectacular roads: curves designed for driving pleasure, routes that wind between sea and mountains, excellent surfacing overall, but with the occasional pleasure or thrill of taking an unpaved lane or side road.

- Varied relief: Greece and the Balkans are 80% relief, so there's always something going up, down or around!

Whether along the coast or high up in the mountain ranges of the Balkan Peninsula or mainland Greece, each itinerary combines changing landscapes and a route that allows for both leisurely and dynamic driving.

- Picturesque villages : at every stopover, you'll discover typical villages or hamlets, where the warm welcome and generous hospitality of the locals will stir your emotions.

- Breathtaking panoramas : lakes, gorges, peaks, wild coastlines and roads suspended above the sea... you won't know where to turn!

- An immersive experience : our tours are not simply routes to get from one point to another. They are designed to provide sensations and generate emotions, highlighting the natural and cultural riches of Greece or the Balkans.

How do you choose the tour that's right for you?

Here are a few simple criteria to help you choose:

- Your experience: have you been to Greece or the Balkans before? If so, you may want to see another region or country, or relive your experience in a different way, this time on a motorcycle.

- Duration and distance : only a few days available? Opt for a short but intense tour, like the 5-day Tour of the Gulf of Corinth or the 7-day Peloponnese Tour.

On the other hand, for total immersion, opt for a longer itinerary that takes you through several regions, like our 16-day Tour of Greece, or even several countries, like our 11-day Adriatic Route through Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Montenegro.

- Sites to visit : are you passionate about history and heritage? Some tours include numerous visits to World Heritage sites, such as the Essential Greece Tour, which takes in 9 of Greece's 19 World Heritage sites.

- Itinerary profile: do you prefer the sea or the mountains? We classify our tours according to the percentage devoted to one or the other, or to both, like the Discovery of Crete, classified as 100% sea AND mountains!

- The pace and level of difficulty of the trip : some of our routes are accessible to all. We indicate them by specifying that they can be envisaged from an intermediate level.

Others, on the other hand, require a little more experience and endurance, with longer, more dynamic stages on slightly more demanding roads. For these road trips, a confirmed or experienced level is preferable.

We'll tell you more about experience levels on our website.

What makes each Hellenic Rides tour a unique experience

Here is an overview of the tours we offer with their main characteristics:

- Adriatic Route : a superb 11-day road trip from Venice through Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Montenegro. A unique opportunity to discover the jewels of Venice, Ljubljana, Split and Dubrovnik, and to marvel at the beauty of natural sites such as the Kotor Mouths, the Plitvice Lakes and many others.

- Full Greece Tour: an exceptional 16-day trip across Greece, from the Aegean to the Ionian coast, and from the Peloponnese to the Albanian border. This road trip is a combination of the following two.

- Essential Greece tour: 10 days to enjoy exceptional roads, with sea and mountains everywhere, visit the greatest ancient sites, and end with a romantic evening in Athens at the foot of the Acropolis.

- Northern Greece escape : a road trip for adventurers in search of wide-open spaces! The route crosses mainland Greece and three national parks, passing through Meteora and the Vikos Gorge, before returning to the unspoilt shores of the Ionian coast.

- Discover Crete: the largest of the Greek islands, which we like to call "the other island of beauty" in the Mediterranean, offers a festival of sensations between sky, sea and mountains, a wide variety of landscapes and spectacular panoramas.

- A trip to the Peloponnese: this one-week road trip offers a concentration of culture and nature across the peninsula that was the cradle of European civilization. On the menu: magnificent mountain and seaside roads, some of Greece's most beautiful listed sites, and the peace and quiet of a region rarely visited, despite the beauty of its landscapes and the hospitality of its people.

- Tour of the Gulf of Corinth: a road trip to be experienced as a 5-day getaway to discover some of Greece's greatest sites and taste the delights of driving on superb roads in the heart of nature.

Each circuit has its own particular strengths and will delight bikers in search of adventure, culture or just plain fun on the road.

Ready for an unforgettable adventure?

Discover the details of our road trips to find out which one might be right for you.

Whether you're a fan of panoramas, curves or history and culture, our itineraries are sure to meet your expectations.

See you soon on the roads of Greece and the Balkans!