Cost: €815.00 per person is twin room

Single Supplement available for €245

- 7 nights in Traditional Houses (Tochni/Choirokitia)

- Twin/Double room accommodation

- Breakfast and Dinner

- Airport Transfers from/to Larnaca Airport

- Shuttle Bus to the venues for training on Tuesday 20/02 and Friday 23/02

- Shuttle Bus to the venues for the races on Wednesday 21/02 and Sunday 25/02

Create your own package based on the following:

- How many nights are you staying in Cyprus

- Choose between single or shared room

- Self catering or hardboard options

- Optional Airport transfers

- Shuttle Bus to the venues for training and the races

Cyprus is the right place to train yourself and challenge your limits due to the excellent climate conditions. Racing specialists, touring cyclists and mountain bikers will all find just the right exciting challenges, under the mild Mediterranean climate and a delightful combination of sea, beaches and mountains. Cyprus is the ideal destination for a mountain bike experience, both for professional and amateurs bike enthusiasts.

The island is located on the east end of the Mediterranean sea, offering perfect weather for cycling, especially during the months of October through April, when temperature range between 15°C and 25°C, while the annual rainfall is also quite low in comparison to other European countries. Moreover, unlike other European or Mediterranean countries, the strong headwinds that are a bane to cyclists, here are rare.

Within an area of 10Km you can go from rocky to clay and steep to flat, enabling you to experience all surfaces within a short period of time transforming the island unto one huge mountain bike arena. Quite rural roads, with excellent quality tarmac, well signposted and limited car traffic are some of the key element that accompany the attractive scenery. In addition, there are no legal barriers to cycling anywhere on the island, except of course on motorways.

Tochni (named from the Greek word τεχνη (techni), which means art) is a tiny village not far from the Mediterranean coast of Cyprus. Its traditional character and architecture attracts hundreds of cyclists and cycle-tourists every year! Amongst them some of the biggest names of mountain-biking and road cycling world. For a number of years the legendary mountain-biker Bart Brentjens, Gunn-Rita Dahle Flesjia ,Yana Belomoina and in the recent years Thomas Frischknecht, Anna van der Breggen and Annika Langvad are choosing Tochni in Cyprus for their stay during their training camp and first race of the year, the Cyprus Sunshine Cup.

Tochni is the cycling center for hundreds mountain-bikers that come to Cyprus always in February and in spring to start their racing season and have their training camps. The infrastructure here with a full service bike center from Activate Cyprus (www.activatecyprus.com) and the beautiful routes are the best setup for the professional as well the amateurs and leisure cyclists.

From Tochni one can ride hundreds of km of paved and unpaved (gravel or mtb trails) routes with a variable of grades and degrees of difficulty. From flat fast rolling terrain along the seaside to the epic climb to Olympus at almost 2000m above the sea level. Other iconic climbs are the one to Stavrovouni or to Vavatsinia and Kionia from where you overlook the capital Nicosia. For the easier days on the road bike you can enjoy the spring Cyprus sun along the Mediterranean coast towards Larnaca where you can indulge in a nice cup of coffee under the palm trees!

Most of these routes are also available in an off-road variation for the mountain-bikers. But the highlight for the lovers of dirt is the epic routes of one of the most historical races in Europe, the Cyprus Sunshine Epic.

At the same time leisure cyclists or even families can ride a touring bike or an electric bike to the neolithic archeological sites of the area or visit the halloumi cheese farms, the wineries of the area or even go to Lefkara, one of the most beautiful villages on the island. In Lefkara the visitors can explore the traditional houses, displaying some of the best preserved traditional architecture on the island and marvel the locals' skills in silver crafting and lace embroidery.

The area around Tochni is well known for its archeological significance for the island as there are two archeological sites of the Neolithic era, the one in Choirokitia and the other near Kalavasos. The church in the middle of the village is built on an arch above the river that passes through the village and according to the history it was founded by Saint Helen and her son Konstantinos on their return from the Holy land in Israel.