Day 1: Arrival

Make your own way by train or car to Ostseebad Binz on Rügen (InterCity station); hotel car park (limited) for a fee.

Day 2: Walk to Sellin and Jagdschloß Granitz

Walk from Binz along the clifftop path to the pier in Sellin. Continue through the Granitz woodland to the Schwarzen See and to the Jagdschloß on the Tempelberg. After your visit and an optional climb of the tower, return to Binz (approx. 18 km, 5 hours).

Day 3: Walk to Königsstuhl

Take the bus to the port town of Sassnitz. Walk through the town, then follow the clifftop path along the chalk cliffs to Viktoriasicht and on to Königsstuhl. Plenty of lovely viewpoints along the way; at Königsstuhl you can optionally descend to the shore. Continue via the Herthasee to the bus and ride back to Sassnitz. By boat across the Prorer Wiek back to Binz (approx. 18 km, 7 hours).

Day 4: Trip to the island of Hiddensee, island walk

Take the bus to Schaprode and the ferry to the car-free island of Hiddensee. Walk from Vitte to Dornbusch and along the clifftop path to Kloster, with an optional visit to the Gerhard-Hauptmann-Museum. In the late afternoon, return to Binz by ferry and bus (approx. 12 km, 10 hours).

Day 5: Walk to Putbus and ride on the Rasenden Roland

Walk through the Biosphären-Reservat Südost-Rügen. First across the Granitz to the megalithic tombs near Lancken-Granitz and on to Neu-Reddevitz. Then along the beach to Lauterbach and the Badehaus Goor, then to the „Weißen Stadt“ Putbus with its neoclassical buildings on the Circus. Back to Binz on the Rasenden Roland (approx. 22 km, 7 hours).

Day 6: Walk to Kap Arkona

First, take the bus to Glowe. Walk along a splendid path across the Schaabe beside the Jasmunder and Breeger Bodden and on to Juliusruh. A short bus ride to Putgarten, then walk to Kap Arkona with the lighthouses and the remains of the Slavic Jaromarsburg. Then continue to the small romantic fishing village of Vitt. By bus back to Binz to the hotel (approx. 14 km, 6 hours)

Day 7: Walk across the Mönchgut peninsula

Take the bus to Gager. Walk through the Biosphären-Reservat Mönchgut with impressive views over the southeastern part of the island of Rügen as far as Usedom and the Polish Baltic coast. Continue via Groß-Zicker and along the broad sandy beach to Lobbe. By bus back to Binz (approx. 14 km, 5 hours).

Day 8: Departure

Depart from Binz by train or car; the hotel takes participants with luggage to the station.

A week-long walking holiday on Rügen with a fixed base in Ostseebad Binz. Six day walks take you along the Hochuferweg to Sellin and through the Granitz to the hunting lodge, to the chalk coast and Königsstuhl in Jasmund National Park, over to the car-free island of Hiddensee, through the biosphere reserve to Putbus with a return on the Rasenden Roland, to Cape Arkona with Vitt, and across the Mönchgut peninsula. You stay in one place all week, with seven nights, breakfast, dinner and a sauna. Self-guided and at your own pace.