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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338 km from Revúca to Revúca, about 6 h 00 of riding. The stops in between: Component neighbouring Silica and Jasov, Component of Szendrő-Rudabánya Hill, Tokaj Wine Region Historic Cultural Landsc and back through Component of Szendrő-Rudabánya Hill. It crosses from Slovakia into Hungary - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. Open plateau country, wide and exposed.
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 is where the day begins. 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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Component neighbouring Silica and Jasov comes up about 37 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 85 km into the recorded legs you reach Component of Szendrő-Rudabánya Hill. Next is Tokaj Wine Region Historic Cultural Landsc.
Some wine regions are famous for a grape. Tokaj is famous for rot. Here in north-eastern Hungary, where the volcanic Zemplén hills meet the Great Plain and the Bodrog flows into the Tisza, autumn mists from the rivers encourage noble rot on the grapes, shrivelling them and concentrating their sugar. The berries, picked one by one, become aszú, and the sweet wine made from them has been celebrated for centuries. A line attributed to Louis XIV calls it the wine of kings and the king of wines.
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Tokaj Wine Region Historic Cultural Landsc, about halfway. Next is back through Component of Szendrő-Rudabánya Hill.
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back through Component of Szendrő-Rudabánya Hill sits at 181 km, about halfway. Next is back through Component neighbouring Silica and Jasov.
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back through Component neighbouring Silica and Jasov comes up about 300 km into the recorded legs. Next is Component of Koniar plateau.
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Read the complete Component of Koniar plateau write-up.
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Component of Koniar plateau closes the day.
Component of Koniar plateau → Component neighbouring Silica and Jasov is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Component neighbouring Silica and Jasov → Component of Szendrő-Rudabánya Hill is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Component of Szendrő-Rudabánya Hill → Tokaj Wine Region Historic Cultural Landsc is 85 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Tokaj Wine Region Historic Cultural Landsc → back through Component of Szendrő-Rudabánya Hill is 82 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Component of Szendrő-Rudabánya Hill → back through Component neighbouring Silica and Jasov is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through 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.