Central America Ring of Fire, Nicaragua to Panama with Explore
Taking you from Nicaragua in the north, through Costa Rica to Panama's famous canal in the south, this bike tour promises smoking volcanoes, cloud forests and national parks overflowing with wildlife. You'll ride about 286km over nine days, mostly on tarmac roads, with plenty of time to relax in idyllic spots like the volcanic island of Ometepe in Lake Nicaragua, and the tropical islands of Bocas del Toro, before cycling across the continental divide and visiting Panama's famous canal.
Cost: From £1,695 without flights, including bike, hotels and food, guide and support vehicle
Avanti Tours' Pacific Marine ride, Vancouver Island, 23-30 July
Making a circuit of the southern tip of British Columbia's Vancouver Island, Avanti Tours' eight-day ride explores this vast, wild playground off Canada's west coast by road bike. Each night delivers a new luxury spa hotel or resort to pamper yourself after each day's exertions.
With daily rides of between 35 and 65 km, vineyards to visit, seafood to taste and pods of whales to spot, this tour is not just about riding!
Cost: From £1,952, no flights, including food, accommodation and support.
Secrets of Sicily road tour with Headwater
With golden bays, olive groves and vine-studded hillsides, Sicily is quintessentially Mediterranean and has a climate and landscape that's perfect for leisurely exploring on two wheels. On this self-guided, seven night A to B road cycling tour, you'll ride through the island's unspoilt western coast, pedalling through sun-baked hamlets like mediaeval Moorish Scopello, past the windmills and salt pans of Nubia and the ancient Greek city of Segesta.
Each evening you'll check into an authentically Sicilian hotel with a pool to refresh after your day's cycling endeavours. With some steep climbs and descents this tour is certainly not pan-flat easy but the rewards are great - not least the extra satisfaction you'll get from your first chilled glass of Cataratto white wine each evening.
Cost: From £1,019 including seven nights hotel accommodation, breakfasts and evening meals, bike hire and luggage transfers
Ho Chi Minh City to Angkor Wat with Global Adventure Challenges
There's something special about arriving at a famous destination by bike: it's somehow more real and certainly more rewarding when you've had to put in a physical effort. This is definitely the case with Cambodia's awe-inspiring temple complex. On this 12-day tour the Royal Temples are the final prize, after 8 days riding through the rice-paddies and waterways of the beautiful Mekong Delta from Ho Chi Minh City - into Cambodia, where the rural landscape is dotted with rustic houses, ruins, temples and French colonial buildings. You'll also be raising money for a good charitable cause of your choice.
Cost: From £1475 plus registration fee of £399 (self-funded), including flights, transport, all accommodation and food, a hire bike, plus full time on-route support and guiding
Faralong's Royal Roads of Myanmar
For a cycling immersion in a totally foreign culture, language and landscape, this has to be the ultimate bike tour. You'll ride from the former Royal Palace and markets of Mandalay City, to ornate teak monasteries, and the shining gold temples of Bagan. The touristic tour is broken by boat trips and short climbs - such as the 777 steps up to the Mount Popa shrine.
Cost: From £834, including lodging, breakfasts and lunches, bikes, guides and internal transfers
Discover Adventure's Madagascar Discovery ride for cancer support
The fascinating island of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean has a range of microclimates, vastly different habitats and a huge number of endemic species that exist nowhere else on earth. This 11-day, 500km charity bike ride for Macmillan Cancer Support will help you discover some of them, as it takes you on a mix of roads and dirt tracks, through highland plains, lush forests, and shorelines. You'll pass tropical fruit plantations, stunning lakes, and welcoming villages, as well as a forest reserve where you should spot lemurs and more, before finally arriving at the lagoons and white sandy beaches of the Indian Ocean.
Cost: Registration fee £450, minimum sponsorship £3,950 includes flights, accommodation, transfers, support and guides, bicycle hire and almost all meals.
Freedomtreks' Danube Leisurely Passau to Vienna trip
This self-guided tour follows the great river through the historic heart of Europe, from the pretty river town of Passau in Germany, through Linz - the cultural capital of Austria - to the museums and cafes of Vienna. Traffic free, it's ideal for families and beginners. With just three hours riding a day, dramatic landscapes, castles, and lazy wine villages, plus your baggage taken ahead to each night's hotel, you should be able to linger all you like on this nine-day tour.
Cost: From £515, B&B, bag transfers. Bike hire £60
Marmot Tours' Raid Pyrenean: coast-to-coast col-bagging road bike challenge
Created by a local cycling club in the 1950s 'glory years' of cycling, the Raid is no ordinary coast-to-coast ride. This epic road cycling challenge covers a 720km route with 11,000m of vertical ascent - and the same amount of glorious descent - from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean (or visa versa), across the 17 most famous mountain passes of the Pyrenees. The catch? You've got 100 hours to do it...
Marmot Tours supports some 200 riders a year on this epic ride over five days. If you want to take the clock-watching element out, there is the option of a non time limited tour along the route, called the Classic Cols of the Pyrenees. Certainly not without challenge, this six-day tour will take on legendary Tour de France climbs such as the Tourmalet, Portet d'Aspet and Peyresourde.
Cost: From £925 for the Raid, including full on-road support, accommodation and evening meals
Sacred Rides' Peruvian singletrack
Every one of Sacred Rides' mountain bike tours to Peru looks a stunner, with the promise of amazing riding along the 10,000km of trails built by the ancient Incas, and fascinating local culture to discover every pedal stroke of the way. These range from the Inca Trail All-Mountain Tour for the super-skilled and ultra-fit, to the Inca Adventure Downhill tour with over 15,200 metres of vertical descent, and the Cusco to the Amazon Explorer tour for beginners. There's even an Inca Trail Bring-your-partner Adventure, where non-riding other halves will be able to explore ancient Inca and enjoy wildlife tours while you tackle the trails. There will also be plenty of together time, with easier rides and on-foot excursions.
Cost: From US$2,595 (£1,828) for the Bring-your-partner Adventure, including internal flights, transfers, hotel accommodation, meals and tours
HotChillee Alpine Challenge, Annecy, France, 1-5 June
Billed as the provider of 'professional events for amateurs' HotChillee has set up the Alpine Challenge for the ultimate 'ride like a pro' experience over five days, with three days of incredible riding from your base by Lake Annecy. A timed Prologue will split the 150 or so riders into groups by ability, then you'll ride three mountain stages with famous cols such as the Colombière, Saisies and Forclaz, with motorbike outriders and rolling road closures ushering you through this stunning Alpine landscape.
Cost: From £1,550, includes support, airport transfers, food and accommodation
Rather be Cycling's Lhasa to Kathmandu Himalayan tour
Riding over 1,000km, this epic tour for the fit and fearless will take you on a cycling journey between the famous capitals of Tibet and Nepal. What used to be the domain of tough, fatter-tyred mountain bikes, due to its once terrible roads, is now possible with cyclocross bikes and even road bikes with touring tyres - all the way from Lhasa to Kathmandu. You'll cross four 5,000m high passes, enjoy incredible descents, ride past ancient temples and monasteries and learn the real meaning of riding into thin air, as you tackle the highest, and most spectacular roads of your life. Pedalling right through the heart of the Himalayas on this 20-day epic, you'll even get a glimpse of Everest's North Face.
Cost: From £2,500 for all accommodation and meals, internal flights, baggage transfers, guiding and support
Exploring Kerala and Tropical India with Exodus
With vibrant, colourful culture, fascinating towns, beautiful beaches and superb food, a cycle through southern India can be an almost overwhelmingly rich experience. You'll start in the cool heights of the Western Ghats, with its sanctuaries bursting with wildlife, coast into rural villages where life has remained little-changed for centuries, and pedal on to the tranquil backwaters of Kerala, with its elaborately decorated Hindu temples and sumptuous houseboats. The accommodation is mostly in hotels, except for three nights in lodges, one in a houseboat and another at a safari lodge.
Cost: From £1,400 excluding flights, including almost all food, all accommodation, hire bike, local transport, on-route support and guiding
