CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
The recorded total and the leg detail need reconciliation. Inspect the leg notes before using this record for timing or navigation. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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The stops in between: Zăvoi - Agnaviae / Balta Neagră-Fânețe, Izvoarele Nerei and back through Zăvoi - Agnaviae / Balta Neagră-Fânețe. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,350 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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.
Read the complete Domogled - Valea Cernei - Ciucevele Cerne write-up.
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Domogled - Valea Cernei - Ciucevele Cerne is where the day begins. Next is Zăvoi - Agnaviae / Balta Neagră-Fânețe.
Zăvoi lies in the valley of the Bistra, a river running east to west between the Poiana Ruscă mountains to the north and the Țarcu range to the south, and for most riders it is a waypoint on one of the best roads in western Romania: the old route from Caransebeș in the Banat over the Iron Gate of Transylvania to Hațeg and the Roman capital of Dacia at Sarmizegetusa. The Romans used this corridor too. The road between their fort at Tibiscum, near Caransebeș, and the colony of Ulpia Traiana Sarmizegetusa passed through the valley, and Agnaviae was a station along it, where travellers and couriers stopped to rest. Today little remains above ground, but the line of the valley is unchanged.
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Zăvoi - Agnaviae / Balta Neagră-Fânețe comes up 66 km in. Next is 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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132 km in you reach Izvoarele Nerei. Next is back through Zăvoi - Agnaviae / Balta Neagră-Fânețe.
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back through Zăvoi - Agnaviae / Balta Neagră-Fânețe, late in the day. Next is Domogled - Valea Cernei - Ciucevele Cerne.
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Back at Domogled - Valea Cernei - Ciucevele Cerne. That is the ride.
Domogled - Valea Cernei - Ciucevele Cerne → Zăvoi - Agnaviae / Balta Neagră-Fânețe is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Zăvoi - Agnaviae / Balta Neagră-Fânețe → Izvoarele Nerei is 71 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Izvoarele Nerei → back through Zăvoi - Agnaviae / Balta Neagră-Fânețe is 71 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Zăvoi - Agnaviae / Balta Neagră-Fânețe → Domogled - Valea Cernei - Ciucevele Cerne is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.