CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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189 km from Szendrő to Szendrő, about 3 h 32 of riding. On the way it passes Component including Aggtelek, Component of Plešivec plateau, Caves of Aggtelek Karst and Slovak Karst and Component of Szendrő-Rudabánya Hill. 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 including Aggtelek.
Under these low wooded hills runs one of the great caves of Europe. The Baradla, a limestone passage about twenty-five kilometres long, starts near Aggtelek in Hungary and crosses the border into Slovakia, where it is called the Domica, so the same cave is entered from two countries. Water has been cutting it for millions of years, and the result is a series of halls and galleries filled with stalactites, stalagmites and dripping curtains of stone, kept at a steady temperature of about ten degrees all year. Guided tours go in through the Aggtelek entrance, and in one big hall called the Concert Hall, musicians perform, because the acoustics are so good. UNESCO listed the caves of the Aggtelek and Slovak Karst in 1995, one of the first cross-border natural sites in Europe.
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Component including Aggtelek comes up about 18 km into the recorded legs. Next is Component of Plešivec plateau.
The Slovak Karst is a world of limestone plateaus and deep gorges in southern Slovakia, along the Hungarian border, and the Plešivec plateau is one of its great tablelands, a high, flat-topped block of rock rising steeply above the valleys of the Slaná and the Štítnik rivers. Its surface is a rolling steppe of grass and scrub, pitted with sinkholes, and beneath it lies a maze of caves and abysses, part of the UNESCO site of the Caves of Aggtelek Karst and Slovak Karst.
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about 47 km into the recorded legs you reach Component of Plešivec plateau. Next is Caves of Aggtelek Karst and Slovak Karst.
Under the hills on the border of Hungary and Slovakia lies one of the largest cave systems in Europe. The Baradla cave, entered from Aggtelek on the Hungarian side and from Domica on the Slovak side, runs for some twenty-five kilometres through limestone, a gallery of stalactites, stalagmites and underground rivers, and parts of it are open to visitors. It is the heart of the Aggtelek and Slovak Karst, a cross-border UNESCO site of more than seven hundred caves, listed in 1995 and extended in 2000. Concerts are held in the largest chamber, where the acoustics are excellent, and the temperature underground stays at a constant cool level, a relief in summer.
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Caves of Aggtelek Karst and Slovak Karst, about halfway. 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 sits at 83 km, about halfway. Next is back through Caves of Aggtelek Karst and Slovak Karst.
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back through Caves of Aggtelek Karst and Slovak Karst comes up about 117 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Component of Plešivec plateau.
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about 137 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Component of Plešivec plateau. Next is back through Component including Aggtelek.
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back through Component including Aggtelek, late in the day. Next is Component of Esztramos Hill.
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The route ends here after 189 km.
Component of Esztramos Hill → Component including Aggtelek is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Component including Aggtelek → Component of Plešivec plateau is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Component of Plešivec plateau → Caves of Aggtelek Karst and Slovak Karst is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Caves of Aggtelek Karst and Slovak Karst → Component of Szendrő-Rudabánya Hill is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Component of Szendrő-Rudabánya Hill → back through Caves of Aggtelek Karst and Slovak Karst is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Caves of Aggtelek Karst and Slovak Karst → back through Component of Plešivec plateau is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Component of Plešivec plateau → back through Component including Aggtelek is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Component including Aggtelek → Component of Esztramos Hill is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.