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 231 km round trip from Szendrő - roughly 4 h 31 in the saddle. The stops in between: Component of Szendrő-Rudabánya Hill, Component neighbouring Silica and Jasov, Component of Koniar plateau and back through Component neighbouring Silica and Jasov. It crosses from Hungary into Slovakia - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules.
Esztramos is a lumpy limestone hill rising from the valley of the Bódva in north-eastern Hungary, a stone's throw from the Slovak border. For much of the twentieth century it was quarried for limestone and iron ore, and in the process the miners broke into caves hidden inside it, full of crystal formations. The Rákóczi Cave, the best known of them, has delicate aragonite crystals and pools, and the hill now forms part of the Caves of Aggtelek Karst and Slovak Karst, a World Heritage site shared between the two countries. Visits to the cave are limited and usually need to be booked, so check before you count on getting inside.
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Component of Esztramos Hill is where the day begins. Next is Component of Szendrő-Rudabánya Hill.
The Szendrő-Rudabánya hills are a modest ridge of low wooded hills in northeastern Hungary, between the Bódva and Sajó valleys, and they are not on any tourist itinerary. That is a large part of their charm. This is the quiet borderland near Slovakia, with small villages, orchards, vineyards and forests of oak and hornbeam, where the roads are empty and the pace slows to that of a cart.
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Component of Szendrő-Rudabánya Hill comes up about 30 km into the recorded legs. Next is Component neighbouring Silica and Jasov.
The Silica plateau is a high, flat limestone table in the Slovak Karst, a few kilometres north of the Hungarian border, and it forms part of the same cross-border UNESCO site as the Aggtelek caves. The label points to the country around Silica and Jasov, a landscape of dry meadows and beech woods broken by sinkholes, gorges and caves, with small villages tucked in the folds. Jasov, in the valley below, has a large Premonstratensian monastery, founded in the thirteenth century, with a grand Baroque church and a cave beneath the hill that is open to visitors. Nearby is the Ochtiná Aragonite Cave, one of very few caves in the world with spiky, branching aragonite crystals.
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about 78 km into the recorded legs you reach Component neighbouring Silica and Jasov. Next is Component of Koniar plateau.
The Koniar plateau is a slab of limestone lifted above the surrounding valleys in southern Slovakia, one of the high karst tablelands that together make up the Slovak Karst. From the road it looks like nothing much: open grassland, scattered trees, a few pastures, steep wooded edges falling to the valleys of the Slaná and its tributaries. The interest is underneath. Rain soaks straight through the limestone, carving caves, shafts and swallow holes, and the whole cave system of the Slovak Karst and Hungary's Aggtelek, just over the border, is protected as a single World Heritage site. Nearby you will find the Ochtinská aragonite cave, filled with white needle-like crystals, the Gombasecká cave with its thin straw stalactites and, further north, the Dobšinská ice cave.
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Component of Koniar plateau, about halfway. Next is back through Component neighbouring Silica and Jasov.
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back through Component neighbouring Silica and Jasov sits at 111 km, about halfway. Next is back through Component of Szendrő-Rudabánya Hill.
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back through Component of Szendrő-Rudabánya Hill comes up about 201 km into the recorded legs. Next is Component of Esztramos Hill.
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Component of Esztramos Hill closes the day.
Component of Esztramos Hill → Component of Szendrő-Rudabánya Hill is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Component of Szendrő-Rudabánya Hill → Component neighbouring Silica and Jasov is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Component neighbouring Silica and Jasov → Component of Koniar plateau is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Component of Koniar plateau → back through Component neighbouring Silica and Jasov is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Component neighbouring Silica and Jasov → back through Component of Szendrő-Rudabánya Hill is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Component of Szendrő-Rudabánya Hill → Component of Esztramos Hill is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.