CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Dej it runs 263 km to Dej; allow about 5 h 43 of riding. It goes by way of Negrilești - Dealul Muncelului, Zagra - Dealul Lupului, Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci and back through Zagra - Dealul Lupului. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
On a terrace above the river Someș, near the village of Cășeiu, a few kilometres from Dej in northern Transylvania, the Romans built a fort they called Samum. It guarded the northern edge of their province of Dacia, which they conquered in the early second century after two hard wars against the Dacian king Decebalus. The fort controlled the valley and the routes into the province, and today its outline can still be traced in the fields, with low walls and earthworks where archaeologists have uncovered gates, towers and barracks. In 2024 the Dacian frontier was added to the UNESCO World Heritage list as part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire.
Read the complete Cășeiu - Cetățele / Samvm Cășeiu -Samum - write-up.
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Cășeiu - Cetățele / Samvm Cășeiu -Samum - is where the day begins. Next is Negrilești - Dealul Muncelului.
Bram Stoker never came to Transylvania, but he sent Jonathan Harker through Bistrița, and the town still enjoys the connection. Dealul Muncelului, a hill above the village of Negrilești, sits west of Bistrița in the Someș valley, and from here the road east leads through the Saxon town to the Tihuța pass, the Borgo Pass of the novel, where Count Dracula's carriage is supposed to have met his English visitor. It is a fine excuse for a ride, even if the vampire is fiction and the real history more interesting.
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Negrilești - Dealul Muncelului comes up 28 km in. Next is Zagra - Dealul Lupului.
Zagra is the last farming village before the land begins to climb in earnest toward the Rodna mountains, the highest range in the Eastern Carpathians north of the Prislop pass. Pietrosul Rodnei, at about 2,300 metres, is the summit, and the whole massif is protected as a national park and biosphere reserve, with glacial lakes, rocky ridges and alpine meadows that stay snowy into June. From the Dealul Lupului, the Wolf Hill, you look across a patchwork of hayfields toward those peaks, which look closer than they are.
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56 km in you reach Zagra - Dealul Lupului. Next is Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci.
The Țibleș massif rises like a dark green wall between Maramureș and the Bistrița country of northern Romania, an old volcanic range topped by the Țibleș peak at around eighteen hundred metres. On its southern flanks, above the village of Groșii Țibleșului, lie the forests of Preluci, part of the Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe that UNESCO has protected as one sprawling, multi-country site. These are woods left largely to themselves, where old beeches grow huge, fall, rot and feed the next generation without a forester in sight.
Read the complete Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci write-up.
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Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci, about halfway. Next is back through Zagra - Dealul Lupului.
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Read the complete Zagra - Dealul Lupului write-up.
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back through Zagra - Dealul Lupului sits at 113 km, about halfway. Next is back through Negrilești - Dealul Muncelului.
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back through Negrilești - Dealul Muncelului comes up 141 km in. Next is Cășeiu - Cetățele / Samvm Cășeiu -Samum -.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cășeiu - Cetățele / Samvm Cășeiu -Samum - write-up.
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Cășeiu - Cetățele / Samvm Cășeiu -Samum - closes the day.
Cășeiu - Cetățele / Samvm Cășeiu -Samum - → Negrilești - Dealul Muncelului is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Negrilești - Dealul Muncelului → Zagra - Dealul Lupului is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Zagra - Dealul Lupului → Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci → back through Zagra - Dealul Lupului is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Zagra - Dealul Lupului → back through Negrilești - Dealul Muncelului is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Negrilești - Dealul Muncelului → Cășeiu - Cetățele / Samvm Cășeiu -Samum - is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.