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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327 km from Dobšiná to Dobšiná, about 5 h 23 of riding. On the way it passes Caves of Aggtelek Karst and Slovak Karst, Tokaj Wine Region Historic Cultural Landsc and back through Caves of Aggtelek Karst and Slovak Karst. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 800 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It crosses from Slovakia into Hungary - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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.
Read the complete Dobšinská Ice Cave write-up.
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Dobšinská Ice Cave 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 62 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 165 km into the recorded legs you reach Tokaj Wine Region Historic Cultural Landsc. 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 Dobšinská Ice Cave.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Dobšinská Ice Cave write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Dobšinská Ice Cave. That is the ride.
Dobšinská Ice Cave → Caves of Aggtelek Karst and Slovak Karst is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Caves of Aggtelek Karst and Slovak Karst → Tokaj Wine Region Historic Cultural Landsc is 103 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Tokaj Wine Region Historic Cultural Landsc → back through Caves of Aggtelek Karst and Slovak Karst is 101 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Caves of Aggtelek Karst and Slovak Karst → Dobšinská Ice Cave is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.