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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351 km from Snina to Snina, about 8 h 02 of riding. The stops in between: Uzhok-Tserkva of the Synaxis of the Archan, Zacharovanyi Krai - Irshavka and back through Uzhok-Tserkva of the Synaxis of the Archan. It crosses from Slovakia into Ukraine - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. Long stretches are under trees.
Snina is a small town at the foot of the Bukovské Hills, in the far north-east corner of Slovakia, a place where the road seems to run out of country. Beyond lies the Ukrainian border and the forests of the Eastern Carpathians, and the ancient beech woods around Rožok are part of a transnational UNESCO site, listed in 2007 and since enlarged, that protects some of the last primeval beech forests in Europe. Here the trees grow in the old way, with fallen trunks left to rot, mosses carpeting the forest floor and giant beeches reaching skyward. The silence is deep and green.
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Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the is where the day begins. Next is Uzhok-Tserkva of the Synaxis of the Archan.
Just below the pass that carries the road and railway from Uzhhorod into Galicia, the village of Uzhok keeps one of the finest wooden churches of the Carpathians. The tserkva of the Synaxis of the Archangel Michael was built in the middle of the eighteenth century in the Boyko style, with three log chambers each topped by a tiered roof, rising in stages like a set of stacked hats, all covered in wooden shingles. It stands on a slope among old trees, with a separate bell tower nearby, and it is one of the sixteen wooden tserkvas of the Carpathian region in Poland and Ukraine listed by UNESCO in 2013.
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Uzhok-Tserkva of the Synaxis of the Archan comes up about 97 km into the recorded legs. Next is Zacharovanyi Krai - Irshavka.
Transcarpathia is the tucked-away corner of Ukraine, on the far side of the mountains from the rest of the country, and it feels like it. The region, known in Ukrainian as Zakarpattia, was part of Hungary for a thousand years, and later of Czechoslovakia, before the Soviet Union took it in 1945, so the villages mix Ukrainian, Hungarian, Romanian and Rusyn traditions. The Zacharovanyi Krai, the Enchanted Land, is a nature park in the hills near the town of Irshava, a country of beech and oak forest, orchards, and folds of low mountains on the edge of the Carpathian foothills.
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about 176 km into the recorded legs you reach Zacharovanyi Krai - Irshavka. Next is back through Uzhok-Tserkva of the Synaxis of the Archan.
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back through Uzhok-Tserkva of the Synaxis of the Archan, late in the day. Next is Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
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Back at Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the. That is the ride.
Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the → Uzhok-Tserkva of the Synaxis of the Archan is 97 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Uzhok-Tserkva of the Synaxis of the Archan → Zacharovanyi Krai - Irshavka is 79 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Zacharovanyi Krai - Irshavka → back through Uzhok-Tserkva of the Synaxis of the Archan is 78 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Uzhok-Tserkva of the Synaxis of the Archan → Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the is 98 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.