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 91 km round trip from Rudabánya - roughly 1 h 39 in the saddle. The stops in between: Caves of Aggtelek Karst and Slovak Karst, Component of Plešivec plateau and back through Caves of Aggtelek Karst and Slovak Karst. It crosses from Hungary into Slovakia - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules.
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.
Read the complete Component of Szendrő-Rudabánya Hill write-up.
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Component of Szendrő-Rudabánya Hill is where the day begins. 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.
Read the complete Caves of Aggtelek Karst and Slovak Karst write-up.
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Caves of Aggtelek Karst and Slovak Karst comes up about 22 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.
Read the complete Component of Plešivec plateau write-up.
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about 43 km into the recorded legs you reach Component of Plešivec plateau. Next is back through Caves of Aggtelek Karst and Slovak Karst.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Caves of Aggtelek Karst and Slovak Karst write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Caves of Aggtelek Karst and Slovak Karst, late in the day. Next is Component of Szendrő-Rudabánya Hill.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Component of Szendrő-Rudabánya Hill write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Component of Szendrő-Rudabánya Hill. That is the ride.
Component of Szendrő-Rudabánya Hill → Caves of Aggtelek Karst and Slovak Karst is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Caves of Aggtelek Karst and Slovak Karst → Component of Plešivec plateau is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Component of Plešivec plateau → back through Caves of Aggtelek Karst and Slovak Karst is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Caves of Aggtelek Karst and Slovak Karst → Component of Szendrő-Rudabánya Hill is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.