CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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430 km from Cornuțel to Cornuțel, about 7 h 53 of riding. It goes by way of Domogled - Valea Cernei - Iauna Craiovei, Drobeta-Turnu Severin -Drobeta and back through Domogled - Valea Cernei - Iauna Craiovei. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,200 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It crosses from Romania into Serbia - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Caput Bubali, the head of the buffalo, is a wonderfully odd Roman name, and it belongs to a station on the road that carried troops and supplies north from the Danube into the heart of Dacia after Trajan's conquest. The hill known as Cetățuie, near the villages of Brebu and Cornuțel in the Banat, holds the earthworks of a fort that guarded this route as it threaded through the hills towards Tibiscum, the important Roman centre near Caransebeș. It is part of the Dacian frontier group listed by UNESCO in 2024, and like much of it, it needs a little imagination and a good eye for ditches and banks.
Read the complete Brebu - Caput Bubali /Cetăţuie write-up.
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Brebu - Caput Bubali /Cetăţuie is where the day begins. Next is Domogled - Valea Cernei - Iauna Craiovei.
The Cerna is a mountain river in south-western Romania, flowing through a long, deep valley between the Mehedinți and Cerna mountains before reaching the old spa town of Băile Herculane. The Domogled-Valea Cernei National Park protects this valley and the mountains around it, a landscape of limestone cliffs, gorges, caves and some of the largest old-growth beech forests in Europe, part of the UNESCO site for the ancient and primeval beech forests of the Carpathians and other regions of Europe.
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Domogled - Valea Cernei - Iauna Craiovei comes up 72 km in. Next is Drobeta-Turnu Severin -Drobeta.
The Danube at Drobeta is a river that has just come out of a gorge and is not yet sure what to do with its freedom. Upstream, it squeezes through the Iron Gates, the great rock gorge between the Carpathians and the Balkans, and the water here has the heavy, slow look of something that has been pent up. Drobeta-Turnu Severin lies just below the dams, a city of about a hundred thousand, and on its riverbank are the stones of a very old story.
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144 km in you reach Drobeta-Turnu Severin -Drobeta. Next is back through Domogled - Valea Cernei - Iauna Craiovei.
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Read the complete Domogled - Valea Cernei - Iauna Craiovei write-up.
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back through Domogled - Valea Cernei - Iauna Craiovei, late in the day. Next is Brebu - Caput Bubali /Cetăţuie.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Brebu - Caput Bubali /Cetăţuie write-up.
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Back at Brebu - Caput Bubali /Cetăţuie. That is the ride.
Brebu - Caput Bubali /Cetăţuie → Domogled - Valea Cernei - Iauna Craiovei is 69 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Domogled - Valea Cernei - Iauna Craiovei → Drobeta-Turnu Severin -Drobeta is 74 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Drobeta-Turnu Severin -Drobeta → back through Domogled - Valea Cernei - Iauna Craiovei is 74 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Domogled - Valea Cernei - Iauna Craiovei → Brebu - Caput Bubali /Cetăţuie is 69 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.