CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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338 km from Daugavpils to Daugavpils, about 5 h 38 of riding. It goes by way of KARISCHKI Gireišiai, JACOBSTADT Jekabpils and back through KARISCHKI Gireišiai. It crosses from Latvia into Lithuania - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
Daugavpils is Latvia's second city, standing on the Daugava river in the south-east, closer to Belarus and Lithuania than to Riga. About a hundred thousand people live here, and the mixture is unusual: most are Russian speakers, with Latvians, Poles and Belarusians among them, and Old Believers, followers of a seventeenth-century Russian church tradition, have their own communities in the region of Latgale. The city's temperament is quieter and more provincial than the capital's.
Read the complete Daugavpils write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Daugavpils is where the day begins. Next is KARISCHKI Gireišiai.
This stop sits in north-eastern Lithuania, in the Aukštaitija highlands near the town of Rokiškis, about twelve kilometres away, and not far from the Latvian border. The name on the map is a mixture of an old German-era spelling and a local village, and the specific site is hard to pin down, so the useful thing is to describe the country around it, which is quiet, gently rolling and full of lakes and woods.
Read the complete KARISCHKI Gireišiai write-up.
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KARISCHKI Gireišiai comes up about 86 km into the recorded legs. Next is JACOBSTADT Jekabpils.
Jēkabpils lies on the Daugava, Latvia's great river, in the region called Sēlija, and its older German name, Jacobstadt, tells you who founded it. Duke Jacob Kettler of Courland, who ruled this land in the seventeenth century, planted a town here in 1670 and gave it his name, in the same decade he was trying to found colonies in Tobago and Gambia. The duchy was a small, wealthy state that punched above its weight. Across the river sits Krustpils, an older settlement with a castle, and the two towns grew together over the centuries and were merged in 1962.
Read the complete JACOBSTADT Jekabpils write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 169 km into the recorded legs you reach JACOBSTADT Jekabpils. Next is back through KARISCHKI Gireišiai.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete KARISCHKI Gireišiai write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through KARISCHKI Gireišiai, late in the day. Next is Daugavpils.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Daugavpils write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Daugavpils. That is the ride.
Daugavpils → KARISCHKI Gireišiai is 86 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
KARISCHKI Gireišiai → JACOBSTADT Jekabpils is 83 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
JACOBSTADT Jekabpils → back through KARISCHKI Gireišiai is 83 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through KARISCHKI Gireišiai → Daugavpils is 86 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.