Alsace cycle tour (South)

Leaving Mulhouse, a city of art and history with a rich industrial past, you'll take the Rhône-Rhine canal cycle route (southern branch), then ride through the Hardt forest to Ottmarsheim and its Romanesque abbey church on the banks of the Rhine. Then on to Kembs, Saint-Louis and Huningue on the legendary EuroVelo15 - Rhine cycle route. After crossing the Passerelle des Trois Pays, you'll make a brief foray into Germany at Weil am Rhein, then into Switzerland at Basel and the Basel countryside. You then continue towards the Sundgau and Alsatian Jura, with a well-earned break in Ferrette. You then head north again, following the bucolic Véloroute de la vallée de la Largue to Dannemarie. After a short stretch on the EuroVelo6 along the Rhone-Rhine Canal cycle route (southern branch), you'll head for Thann on little-traveled country roads, with a brief passage through the Ballons des Vosges Regional Nature Park. Continue along the Thur Valley cycle route to Cernay, then through the potassic basin to Ensisheim and Mulhouse, following the EuroVelo5 - Via Romea.