Fast roads, a royal wall and world heritage landmarks around the wind-scoured tip of Öland.
The island unrolls flat and wide beneath your wheels, ocean visible on one side or the other for almost every kilometre of this loop. Starting from the old cement docks of Degerhamn, the route threads past the whitewashed sweep of Long Jan lighthouse, the Iron Age ruins of Eketorp, and a 17th-century wall built to keep the king's deer in — not cyclists out. Fishing harbours interrupt the ride at just the right moments, smoke curling from smokehouses selling the day's catch. This is Öland at its most elemental: wind, limestone, and the endless line where grass meets sea.
Out past the old cement docks, fields opening up with the ocean humming on your right.
Cross the 17th-century royal hunting wall and the Viking-age burial ground at Ottenby.
The southern tip lighthouse, then inland to the reconstructed Iron Age ring fort.
A last stop at Gräsgårds fishing harbour before closing the loop.
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