Why this ride
From Eremitu it runs 106 km to Eremitu; allow about 2 h 23 of riding. It goes by way of Sărățeni - Casa Sării, Inlăceni - Cetate and back through Sărățeni - Casa Sării. The line favours views over speed.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Eremitu - Dealul Tompa and Inlăceni - Cetate
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 106 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 2 h 23
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Eremitu - Dealul Tompa
You are in Szekler country here, in the hills between the Niraj valley and the foot of the Gurghiu and Harghita mountains, a part of Transylvania where most villages have two names and the Hungarian one, Nyárádremete for Eremitu, is the one people use. Dealul Tompa means the blunt hill, and it matches the landscape: rounded, grassy and farmed, with beech woods on the higher ground and a patchwork of hay meadows below.
Read the complete Eremitu - Dealul Tompa write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Eremitu - Dealul Tompa is where the day begins. Next is Sărățeni - Casa Sării.
2. Sărățeni - Casa Sării
Salt has shaped this corner of Transylvania for thousands of years. Beneath the hills of the Sovata and Praid area lies a huge salt dome, and in places it reaches the surface, creating salt cliffs, salty springs and lakes. Sărățeni, a village in the Târnava Mică valley, takes its name from the salt, and Casa Sării, the salt house, is the local name for the spot marked here. The Romans valued this salt as much as Dacian gold, and the eastern frontier of their province ran along these hills, with a fort at Sărățeni among the posts that watched the valleys and, no doubt, the salt routes.
Read the complete Sărățeni - Casa Sării write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Sărățeni - Casa Sării comes up about 23 km into the recorded legs. Next is Inlăceni - Cetate.
3. Inlăceni - Cetate
Székely Land, in the eastern part of Transylvania, is the home of a Hungarian-speaking community whose ancestors were placed here in the Middle Ages to guard the eastern frontier of the Kingdom of Hungary, and the same job had been done a thousand years earlier by the Romans. Near the village of Inlăceni, in the hills of Harghita county, stand the remains of a Roman fort, one of the eastern bastions of Dacia, facing the Carpathians and the passes beyond. The stone walls, gates and corner towers can still be traced in a meadow on a hilltop, and the setting, with forests all around and the mountains on the horizon, is one of the most beautiful of all the sites on the Dacian frontier listed by UNESCO.
Read the complete Inlăceni - Cetate write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 52 km into the recorded legs you reach Inlăceni - Cetate. Next is back through Sărățeni - Casa Sării.
4. back through Sărățeni - Casa Sării
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Sărățeni - Casa Sării write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Sărățeni - Casa Sării, late in the day. Next is Eremitu - Dealul Tompa.
5. Eremitu - Dealul Tompa
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Eremitu - Dealul Tompa write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Eremitu - Dealul Tompa. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Eremitu - Dealul Tompa to Sărățeni - Casa Sării
Eremitu - Dealul Tompa → Sărățeni - Casa Sării is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Sărățeni - Casa Sării to Inlăceni - Cetate
Sărățeni - Casa Sării → Inlăceni - Cetate is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Inlăceni - Cetate to back through Sărățeni - Casa Sării
Inlăceni - Cetate → back through Sărățeni - Casa Sării is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Sărățeni - Casa Sării to Eremitu - Dealul Tompa
back through Sărățeni - Casa Sării → Eremitu - Dealul Tompa is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.