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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From Klisura it runs 295 km to Klisura; allow about 9 h 06 of riding. The stops in between: Central Balkan - Boatin Reserve, Central Balkan - Steneto Reserve and back through Central Balkan - Boatin Reserve. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,050 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The Balkan range, called Stara Planina in Bulgarian, runs across the whole of the country like a long, wooded wall, and it gave its name to the entire Balkan peninsula. The Tsarichina reserve lies in its central part, within the Central Balkan National Park, in a deep valley that holds some of the oldest and best preserved forests in Bulgaria. The beech and fir trees are huge, and in places have never been cut, so the forest has the tall, silent, shadowy character of ancient woodland. It belongs to the beech forest sites that UNESCO linked together across Europe.
Read the complete Central Balkan - Tsarichina Reserve write-up.
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Central Balkan - Tsarichina Reserve is where the day begins. Next is Central Balkan - Boatin Reserve.
The Balkan range, the Stara Planina, runs across the middle of Bulgaria from the Serbian border to the Black Sea, and its central section is the wildest, highest and most heavily forested part. The Central Balkan National Park protects this area, and within it, the Boatin Reserve guards a stretch of ancient beech forest on the northern slopes, one of the components of the Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe, a UNESCO site that stretches across many countries.
Read the complete Central Balkan - Boatin Reserve write-up.
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Central Balkan - Boatin Reserve comes up about 43 km into the recorded legs. Next is Central Balkan - Steneto Reserve.
Steneto is a deep, wild valley on the northern slopes of the Balkan range in central Bulgaria, enclosed by cliffs and covered in ancient beech forest, and it is one of the strict reserves of Central Balkan National Park, part of the Primeval Beech Forests World Heritage listing. Access is restricted, and nature is left to itself: old trees fall and rot, and the forest is home to bears, wolves, wild boar and a rich variety of birds, including several species of woodpecker and owl. The Cherni Osam river flows through the valley, and its clear waters are home to trout.
Read the complete Central Balkan - Steneto Reserve write-up.
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about 148 km into the recorded legs you reach Central Balkan - Steneto Reserve. Next is back through Central Balkan - Boatin Reserve.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Central Balkan - Boatin Reserve write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Central Balkan - Boatin Reserve, late in the day. Next is Central Balkan - Tsarichina Reserve.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Central Balkan - Tsarichina Reserve write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Central Balkan - Tsarichina Reserve. That is the ride.
Central Balkan - Tsarichina Reserve → Central Balkan - Boatin Reserve is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Central Balkan - Boatin Reserve → Central Balkan - Steneto Reserve is 105 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Central Balkan - Steneto Reserve → back through Central Balkan - Boatin Reserve is 105 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Central Balkan - Boatin Reserve → Central Balkan - Tsarichina Reserve is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.