Our La Fuga guides will pick you up from Palma de Mallorca airport and transfer you to your hotel. Once checked in, your bikes will be assembled or fitted if using rental bikes.

There should be time for a quick spin to check the gravel roads close to the hotel and turn the legs after the journey. Your tour manager will brief you over dinner about the riding you’ll be doing over the coming days.

Today’s route will showcase the beauty of local gravel roads. With the hotel located in Randa, riders familiar with the island will know Randa as the location of the hilltop monastery and affording a spectacular view over the island. You’ll start the ride by climbing up to the monastery and then taking an alternative route down, which is more suited to gravel bikes than road bikes. You’ll continue along the ‘Cami de sa maimona’, a narrow corridor with dry stone walls on both sides.

The route will cross over smooth tarmac roads crisscrossing through orange groves and through farmland, all the time offering special views of the countryside. You’ll skirt the hill housing the Santuario Bonany on the way to a stop in the beautiful town of Sineu.

Sineu is a traditional inland rural town located geographically at the center of Mallorca. Every street is lined with interesting architecture and ancient blonde stone buildings. The main square, Plaça des Fossar, is a bustling hive of cafés and restaurants with outdoor dining, the perfect pit-stop for a coffee and lunch whilst soaking up the local atmosphere.

The route will return to the hotel on small gravel roads devoid of any vehicles allowing you to relax on fairly easy tracks for the first day of riding.

Once back at the hotel, you can relax and soak up the sunshine with a refreshing drink ahead of dinner.

You’ll be changing hotels today as the route takes in a spectacular ride over to the coast. You’ll enjoy a few kilometers of descent from the hotel to start the ride. But soon, you’ll be on rolling terrain riding through narrow single-track routes and across rocky trails as the routes work it way over to the seas.

We’ll pick a spot underneath the many orange groves that we pass to set up a picnic lunch to refuel and have a refreshing drink. Before the blue see and gold sands come into view, your skills will be tested as the route climbs up through the forested trails to Castell de Santueri. To the right, you’ll see the famous climb for road bikers, the Sanctuary of Sant Salvador and the ruins of the medieval castle of Santueri (14th Century), the best preserved of the three rocky castles of Mallorca, not far away from you. The views looking down at the glistening Mediterranean will be a photo opportunity for sure.

The descent from the forest brings the coast closer, but you’ll have a twisty route tracing the coast before arriving at the hotel for the evening. There should be time for a refreshing dip in the sea or the hotel pool before dinner or just relaxing after an amazing ride with a cold drink.

You’ll return to the first hotel on today’s route. But, to start the day, you’ll enjoy a breakfast with a cortado or two overlooking the glimmering sea.

The route goes up almost 13km as soon as you leave the hotel, but don’t worry, you only climb a total of 300mtres. As the route winds its way through trails, there are a few sections in which you may need to shoulder your bike to traverse a few obstacles. Whereas yesterday there were small sections of tarmac, today almost all the ride is off-road.

After the first part of the ride is uphill, you’ll be going through much flatter terrain as this part of the island gives way to much more agriculture with open fields growing wheat and other crops.

The final 20km all the way back to the hotel is fast as you skirt between vines and olive trees. You’ll be rolling along, enjoying the sunshine on your back, and wishing every ride was as enjoyable as this one.

You’ll arrive back at the hotel with weary legs and toast an excellent few days of riding in great company. With the hotel perching on the hillside, you’ll be able to sit back and take in the gardens enjoying a celebratory drink overlooking the area which you’ve just ridden. We’ll dine in the hotel on the terrace and toast what has been a great ‘Mallorca Gravel Escape.’

With an afternoon return flight home, it allows you a chance to take on the short loop. The legs will be tired after a few days of cycling, but this shot loop will be an enjoyable way of finishing your Mallorca adventure trip on the gravel bike. We can stop for a coffee in Llucmajor.

Llucmajor is an important town in Mallorcan history, with records dating back to 1259 when the first church was erected. In 1349 the battle of Llucmajor was fought between James II of Mallorca and Peter IV of Aragon and resulted in independence for the island.

The Romans planted the first vines here, which is gaining a good reputation. It is also famous for its shoemaking, and statues in the town square honor its origins, continuing to be an important industry today. The town square is a perfect place to sit back and take in a cortado or ensaimada whilst watching the locals go about their daily lives.

We will aim to return for lunch prior to departure, whilst your La Fuga mechanic will pack your bikes ready for the journey home.