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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234 km from Szendrő to Szendrő, about 4 h 13 of riding. On the way it passes Component of Szendrő-Rudabánya Hill, Component of Plešivec plateau, Dobšinská Ice Cave and back through Component of Plešivec plateau. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 800 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It crosses from Hungary into Slovakia - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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 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 73 km into the recorded legs you reach Component of Plešivec plateau. Next is Dobšinská Ice Cave.
Step out of a warm summer day into the Dobšinská Ice Cave and the temperature drops to just below freezing within a few metres. The cave, on the northern edge of the Slovak Paradise in eastern Slovakia, holds a vast mass of ice, tens of thousands of cubic metres, with frozen floors, walls and columns that have built up over thousands of years. It was explored in 1870 by Eugen Ruffinyi, opened to visitors soon after, and became one of the first caves in Europe to be lit by electricity. It is part of the UNESCO-listed Caves of Aggtelek Karst and Slovak Karst, shared with Hungary.
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Dobšinská Ice Cave, about halfway. Next is back through Component of Plešivec plateau.
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back through Component of Plešivec plateau sits at 145 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 205 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 of Plešivec plateau is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Component of Plešivec plateau → Dobšinská Ice Cave is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Dobšinská Ice Cave → back through Component of Plešivec plateau is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Component of Plešivec plateau → back through Component of Szendrő-Rudabánya Hill is 43 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.