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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94 km from Rožňava to Rožňava, about 1 h 46 of riding. It goes by way of Component including Aggtelek, Component of Esztramos Hill and back through Component including Aggtelek. It crosses from Slovakia into Hungary - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules.
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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Component of Plešivec plateau 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 29 km into the recorded legs. Next is Component of Esztramos Hill.
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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about 47 km into the recorded legs you reach Component of Esztramos Hill. Next is back through Component including Aggtelek.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Component including Aggtelek write-up.
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back through Component including Aggtelek, late in the day. Next is Component of Plešivec plateau.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Component of Plešivec plateau write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Component of Plešivec plateau. That is the ride.
Component of Plešivec plateau → Component including Aggtelek is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Component including Aggtelek → Component of Esztramos Hill is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Component of Esztramos Hill → back through Component including Aggtelek is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Component including Aggtelek → Component of Plešivec plateau is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.