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Domogled - Valea Cernei - Ciucevele Cerne and Izvoarele Nerei starting at Cloșani

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Recorded distance
526 km
Riding-time estimate
12 h 07
Journey
Recorded itinerary
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Why this ride

On the way it passes Domogled - Valea Cernei - Iauna Craiovei, Domogled - Valea Cernei - Domogled-Coronin, Izvoarele Nerei and back through Domogled - Valea Cernei - Domogled-Coronin. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,350 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.

Waypoint introductions and full write-ups

  1. 1. Domogled - Valea Cernei - Ciucevele Cerne

    The Cerna valley in southwestern Romania is a deep limestone gorge between the Mehedinți and Cerna mountains, with cliffs, caves and forests rising steeply on both sides. The Domogled–Valea Cernei National Park protects this wild landscape, and its beech forests, some of them untouched for centuries, became part of the UNESCO listing of Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe in 2017. The park is also home to a rare variety of black pine that grows on the steep limestone slopes, and to bears, wolves, lynx and chamois, as well as horned vipers and a remarkable variety of butterflies.

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    Recorded stop-planning note

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    Planning note

    Domogled - Valea Cernei - Ciucevele Cerne is where the day begins. Next is Domogled - Valea Cernei - Iauna Craiovei.

  2. 2. Domogled - Valea Cernei - Iauna Craiovei

    The Cerna is a mountain river in south-western Romania, flowing through a long, deep valley between the Mehedinți and Cerna mountains before reaching the old spa town of Băile Herculane. The Domogled-Valea Cernei National Park protects this valley and the mountains around it, a landscape of limestone cliffs, gorges, caves and some of the largest old-growth beech forests in Europe, part of the UNESCO site for the ancient and primeval beech forests of the Carpathians and other regions of Europe.

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    Recorded stop-planning note

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    Planning note

    Domogled - Valea Cernei - Iauna Craiovei comes up 39 km in. Next is Domogled - Valea Cernei - Domogled-Coronin.

  3. 3. Domogled - Valea Cernei - Domogled-Coronin

    The river Cerna runs through one of the deepest and wildest valleys of the Romanian Carpathians, a narrow gorge between limestone cliffs, before emerging at Băile Herculane, one of the oldest spa towns in Europe. The Romans bathed in its hot springs nearly two thousand years ago and named the place after Hercules. In the nineteenth century, the Habsburgs built grand bathhouses, hotels and casinos in an ornate imperial style, and Emperor Franz Joseph and Empress Sisi came to take the waters. Many of these buildings now stand empty and decaying, a haunting sight, though restoration efforts are under way. The surrounding mountains form the Domogled-Valea Cernei National Park, and parts of its old beech forests are included in the UNESCO site of Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests.

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    Recorded stop-planning note

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    Planning note

    78 km in you reach Domogled - Valea Cernei - Domogled-Coronin. Next is Izvoarele Nerei.

  4. 4. Izvoarele Nerei

    High in the Semenic mountains of south-western Romania, in the Banat region, the Nera river is born in a forest of ancient beech trees. The Izvoarele Nerei reserve, the springs of the Nera, protects one of the largest areas of virgin beech forest in Europe, with trees over thirty metres tall and centuries old, untouched by logging. It is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe.

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    Recorded stop-planning note

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    Planning note

    Izvoarele Nerei, about halfway. Next is back through Domogled - Valea Cernei - Domogled-Coronin.

  5. 5. back through Domogled - Valea Cernei - Domogled-Coronin

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    Recorded stop-planning note

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    Planning note

    back through Domogled - Valea Cernei - Domogled-Coronin sits at 155 km, about halfway. Next is back through Domogled - Valea Cernei - Iauna Craiovei.

  6. 6. back through Domogled - Valea Cernei - Iauna Craiovei

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    Recorded stop-planning note

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    Planning note

    back through Domogled - Valea Cernei - Iauna Craiovei comes up 194 km in. Next is Domogled - Valea Cernei - Ciucevele Cerne.

  7. 7. Domogled - Valea Cernei - Ciucevele Cerne

    Return visit. Read the place description above.

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    Recorded stop-planning note

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    Planning note

    Domogled - Valea Cernei - Ciucevele Cerne closes the day.

Leg by leg

Domogled - Valea Cernei - Ciucevele Cerne to Domogled - Valea Cernei - Iauna Craiovei

Domogled - Valea Cernei - Ciucevele Cerne → Domogled - Valea Cernei - Iauna Craiovei is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.

Domogled - Valea Cernei - Iauna Craiovei to Domogled - Valea Cernei - Domogled-Coronin

Domogled - Valea Cernei - Iauna Craiovei → Domogled - Valea Cernei - Domogled-Coronin is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.

Domogled - Valea Cernei - Domogled-Coronin to Izvoarele Nerei

Domogled - Valea Cernei - Domogled-Coronin → Izvoarele Nerei is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.

Izvoarele Nerei to back through Domogled - Valea Cernei - Domogled-Coronin

Izvoarele Nerei → back through Domogled - Valea Cernei - Domogled-Coronin is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.

back through Domogled - Valea Cernei - Domogled-Coronin to back through Domogled - Valea Cernei - Iauna Craiovei

back through Domogled - Valea Cernei - Domogled-Coronin → back through Domogled - Valea Cernei - Iauna Craiovei is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.

back through Domogled - Valea Cernei - Iauna Craiovei to Domogled - Valea Cernei - Ciucevele Cerne

back through Domogled - Valea Cernei - Iauna Craiovei → Domogled - Valea Cernei - Ciucevele Cerne is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.

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