Why this ride
A 120 km round trip from Hodoşa - roughly 2 h 29 in the saddle. It goes by way of Sărățeni - Casa Sării, Eremitu - Dealul Tompa and back through Sărățeni - Casa Sării.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Călugăreni - Cetate and Eremitu - Dealul Tompa
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 120 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 2 h 29
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Călugăreni - Cetate
Călugăreni lies in the Niraj valley in Mureș county, in the heart of the region known as Székely Land, and here the signs, the conversation and the church spires announce that you are in a Hungarian-speaking part of Romania. The Székelys are a Hungarian community who, for centuries, guarded the eastern borders of the kingdom, and their villages, with carved wooden gates and whitewashed churches, are among the most distinctive in Transylvania. In Hungarian, the village is called Mikháza.
Read the complete Călugăreni - Cetate write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Călugăreni - Cetate is where the day begins. Next is Sărățeni - Casa Sării.
2. Sărățeni - Casa Sării
Salt has shaped this corner of Transylvania for thousands of years. Beneath the hills of the Sovata and Praid area lies a huge salt dome, and in places it reaches the surface, creating salt cliffs, salty springs and lakes. Sărățeni, a village in the Târnava Mică valley, takes its name from the salt, and Casa Sării, the salt house, is the local name for the spot marked here. The Romans valued this salt as much as Dacian gold, and the eastern frontier of their province ran along these hills, with a fort at Sărățeni among the posts that watched the valleys and, no doubt, the salt routes.
Read the complete Sărățeni - Casa Sării write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Sărățeni - Casa Sării comes up about 31 km into the recorded legs. Next is Eremitu - Dealul Tompa.
3. Eremitu - Dealul Tompa
You are in Szekler country here, in the hills between the Niraj valley and the foot of the Gurghiu and Harghita mountains, a part of Transylvania where most villages have two names and the Hungarian one, Nyárádremete for Eremitu, is the one people use. Dealul Tompa means the blunt hill, and it matches the landscape: rounded, grassy and farmed, with beech woods on the higher ground and a patchwork of hay meadows below.
Read the complete Eremitu - Dealul Tompa write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 60 km into the recorded legs you reach Eremitu - Dealul Tompa. Next is back through Sărățeni - Casa Sării.
4. back through Sărățeni - Casa Sării
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Sărățeni - Casa Sării write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Sărățeni - Casa Sării, late in the day. Next is Călugăreni - Cetate.
5. Călugăreni - Cetate
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Călugăreni - Cetate write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Călugăreni - Cetate. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Călugăreni - Cetate to Sărățeni - Casa Sării
Călugăreni - Cetate → Sărățeni - Casa Sării is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Sărățeni - Casa Sării to Eremitu - Dealul Tompa
Sărățeni - Casa Sării → Eremitu - Dealul Tompa is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Eremitu - Dealul Tompa to back through Sărățeni - Casa Sării
Eremitu - Dealul Tompa → back through Sărățeni - Casa Sării is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Sărățeni - Casa Sării to Călugăreni - Cetate
back through Sărățeni - Casa Sării → Călugăreni - Cetate is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.