Cycling in Podlasie

Green Velo runs two thousand kilometres down Poland's eastern border and the Podlasie section is the best of it: flat, quiet roads, painted wooden houses, Orthodox churches with onion domes, and the two Tatar villages of Kruszyniany and Bohoniki where timber mosques have stood since the seventeenth century.

The traffic is almost nonexistent, the food is different from the rest of the country, and the whole region feels like a border zone in the old sense.

Long flat days, limited services between villages, and occasional restrictions near the eastern frontier.

Check the current situation along the border before routing close to it. May to September; the route is signed throughout.