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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A 453 km round trip from Sasca Montană - roughly 8 h 07 in the saddle. It goes by way of Teregova - La Hideg, Sarmizegetusa - Colonia Ulpia Traiana Augu and back through Teregova - La Hideg. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,200 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
The water at Ochiul Beiului, the Bey's Eye, is such an intense turquoise that it looks dyed, and the legend says it formed from the tears of a Turkish nobleman mourning a lost love. It is one of the jewels of the Cheile Nerei-Beușnița National Park, in the mountains of Banat in south-western Romania, where the Nera river has cut a deep gorge through limestone over about twenty kilometres. The park's ancient beech forests are part of the UNESCO listing of primeval beech forests of the Carpathians and other regions of Europe, and the waterfalls, caves and karst springs make it one of the most beautiful corners of the country.
Read the complete Cheile Nerei-Beușnița write-up.
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Cheile Nerei-Beușnița is where the day begins. Next is Teregova - La Hideg.
Teregova is a village in the narrow corridor between the Banat mountains and the Țarcu range in western Romania, where the Timiș river flows north toward the plain and a low pass leads south to the Cerna and the Danube. This corridor has been a route since ancient times: the Roman road from Dierna, on the Danube, to Tibiscum, near Caransebeș, ran through here, linking the river crossing with the heart of the province of Dacia. La Hideg is a local place name near the village, and the point is listed among the sites of the Roman frontier of Dacia, the UNESCO site recognised in 2024. As with many such sites, the remains may be hard to spot, but the logic of the location is clear.
Read the complete Teregova - La Hideg write-up.
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Teregova - La Hideg comes up about 140 km into the recorded legs. Next is Sarmizegetusa - Colonia Ulpia Traiana Augu.
After conquering Dacia in AD 106, the emperor Trajan founded a new capital for the province in the Hațeg basin, and named it Colonia Ulpia Traiana Augusta Dacica Sarmizegetusa, borrowing the name of the Dacian royal capital in the Orăștie mountains to the north-east. The city grew into a prosperous centre, with a forum, temples, baths, and an amphitheatre that could seat thousands, and its ruins, partly excavated, lie in fields beside the modern village of Sarmizegetusa. The site has a museum, and you can walk around the forum and the amphitheatre, imagining the gladiatorial games that once filled it.
Read the complete Sarmizegetusa - Colonia Ulpia Traiana Augu write-up.
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about 227 km into the recorded legs you reach Sarmizegetusa - Colonia Ulpia Traiana Augu. Next is back through Teregova - La Hideg.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Teregova - La Hideg write-up.
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back through Teregova - La Hideg, late in the day. Next is Cheile Nerei-Beușnița.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cheile Nerei-Beușnița write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Cheile Nerei-Beușnița. That is the ride.
Cheile Nerei-Beușnița → Teregova - La Hideg is 140 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Teregova - La Hideg → Sarmizegetusa - Colonia Ulpia Traiana Augu is 87 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Sarmizegetusa - Colonia Ulpia Traiana Augu → back through Teregova - La Hideg is 87 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Teregova - La Hideg → Cheile Nerei-Beușnița is 140 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.