Why this ride
A 288 km round trip from Eremitu - roughly 5 h 46 in the saddle. On the way it passes Sântioana - Vârful Mortila, Perișor - Păltiniș and back through Sântioana - Vârful Mortila.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Eremitu - Dealul Tompa and Perișor - Păltiniș
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 288 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 5 h 46
- 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 Sântioana - Vârful Mortila.
2. Sântioana - Vârful Mortila
Sântioana sits in rolling country on the edge of the Transylvanian Plain, in Bistrița-Năsăud county, a gentle landscape of low hills, fields, orchards and scattered woods. The hilltop of Vârful Mortila, above the village, is one of the many archaeological places recorded in this part of Transylvania, a high point that would have made a natural lookout or settlement site for earlier peoples. There is little to see on the surface, but the view from the top gives a fine sense of the landscape, with the Transylvanian hills rolling away in every direction and the mountains rising on the horizon.
Read the complete Sântioana - Vârful Mortila write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Sântioana - Vârful Mortila comes up about 69 km into the recorded legs. Next is Perișor - Păltiniș.
3. Perișor - Păltiniș
The hills of northern Transylvania, in Bistrita-Nasaud county, are quieter than the better-known Saxon towns further south, a country of wooded ridges, narrow valleys and farming villages where hay is still cut by hand and stacked on wooden poles. The Perisor to Paltinis label sits in this landscape, about four kilometres from the village of Spermezeu and not far from Zagra, in the foothills below the Rodna mountains.
Read the complete Perișor - Păltiniș write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 143 km into the recorded legs you reach Perișor - Păltiniș. Next is back through Sântioana - Vârful Mortila.
4. back through Sântioana - Vârful Mortila
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Sântioana - Vârful Mortila write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Sântioana - Vârful Mortila, 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 Sântioana - Vârful Mortila
Eremitu - Dealul Tompa → Sântioana - Vârful Mortila is 69 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Sântioana - Vârful Mortila to Perișor - Păltiniș
Sântioana - Vârful Mortila → Perișor - Păltiniș is 74 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Perișor - Păltiniș to back through Sântioana - Vârful Mortila
Perișor - Păltiniș → back through Sântioana - Vârful Mortila is 76 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Sântioana - Vârful Mortila to Eremitu - Dealul Tompa
back through Sântioana - Vârful Mortila → Eremitu - Dealul Tompa is 69 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.