Start and aim is the port Hafen Waldschlößchen. This tour leads you up to the Town Lübbenau and back to the port Hafen Waldschlößchen. The paddle tour has a length of about 22 kilometres. Three sluices are on the route.

Length:
11 kilometres
Burg Kauper - Leipe - Lehde - Lübbenau

back:
11 kilometres
Lübbenau - Lehde - Leipe - Burg Kauper

Duration:
You need about 3 hours with comfortable paddling up to the camping site in Lübbenau without breaks. Back of course also 3 hours up to the port Hafen Waldschlößchen.

Start and aim:
Port Hafen Waldschlößchen in Burg (Spreewald)

Route description:
to the start

• on the left: Pasture ditch
  
  
• passing sluice 33
  
  
• straight ahead: Rohrkanal about 2.2 kilometres
  
  
• at the knot of several flows left into the flow Leiper Graben
  
  
• Leipe is reached after around 900 metres
  
  
• the Leiper Graben leads here into the Hauptspree
  
  
• passing sluice 47 at the inn Spreewaldhof
  
  
• remain about 700 metres on the Hauptspree
  
  
• then turn right to Tschummi (Eschenfließ.)
  
  
• one meets after on the Lehder Graben, here on the right about 2.2 kilometres
  
  
• after 100 metres again on the right to the Wehrkanal
  
  
• straight up to the tourist café Wotschofska, ideal for breaks
  
  
• to this on the Wehrkanal back up to the Lehder Fliess
  
  
• on the left into the Lehder Graben
  
  
• on the Lehder Graben about 1 kilometre ahaed
  
  
• one then reaches the free Freilandmuseum Lehde
  
  
• straight on the Lehder Graben, about 1 kilometre
  
  
• at the inn Kaupen Nr.6 turn to the right
  
  
• until you meet the Südumfluter
  
  
• here and sluice 111 passing Schneidemuehle (Mill) on the right
  

about 150 metres after the sluice to the left into the Lehder Fliess

Aim reaches:
Camping site at the castle grounds in Lübbenau (Spreewald.)

Sweep back this tour around again to the starting point; simply use the described route backwards.

Tip: You can use this tour, to plan a several day tour by the Spreewald and use the camping site as an overnight accommodation.

Card with waterways, walks, Skater trails and bike driven distances in the Spreewald. This map contains Burg with Oberspreewald to Lübben and partly Cottbus. Almost one "must" for cyclist, hiker or canoeist.

Price: 5.50 euros

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