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 431 km round trip from Rudabánya - roughly 6 h 30 in the saddle. The stops in between: Tokaj Wine Region Historic Cultural Landsc, Hortobágy National Park - the Puszta and back through Tokaj Wine Region Historic Cultural Landsc. The line favours views over speed.
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 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.
Read the complete Tokaj Wine Region Historic Cultural Landsc write-up.
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Tokaj Wine Region Historic Cultural Landsc comes up about 82 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hortobágy National Park - the Puszta.
The Hortobágy is Hungary's great grassland, the puszta, a flat, wide, open plain in the east of the country, and it is unlike anything else in central Europe. Nearly eight hundred square kilometres of it is protected as a national park, which was the first in Hungary, and it is on the World Heritage list too. What you see from the road is grass, sky, horizon, and then, if the light is right, something odd shimmering on the horizon, which locals will tell you is the fata morgana, a mirage that has fooled travellers for centuries.
Read the complete Hortobágy National Park - the Puszta write-up.
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about 215 km into the recorded legs you reach Hortobágy National Park - the Puszta. Next is back through Tokaj Wine Region Historic Cultural Landsc.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Tokaj Wine Region Historic Cultural Landsc write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Tokaj Wine Region Historic Cultural Landsc, 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 → Tokaj Wine Region Historic Cultural Landsc is 82 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Tokaj Wine Region Historic Cultural Landsc → Hortobágy National Park - the Puszta is 133 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Hortobágy National Park - the Puszta → back through Tokaj Wine Region Historic Cultural Landsc is 133 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Tokaj Wine Region Historic Cultural Landsc → Component of Szendrő-Rudabánya Hill is 82 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.