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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376 km from Sárospatak to Sárospatak, about 6 h 41 of riding. It goes by way of Component of Esztramos Hill, Dobšinská Ice Cave and back through Component of Esztramos Hill. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 800 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It crosses from Hungary into Slovakia - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
Between the Bodrog and the first folds of the Zemplén hills, Sárospatak is a town you ride into slowly, because the streets are cobbled, narrow and full of people who are in no hurry. The Gomboshegy cellars lie barely a kilometre from the centre, on the slope where the vineyards begin, and that closeness is what I like about them: the wine is not a trip out into some remote estate, it is a few minutes from the bakery. Furmint and Hárslevelű are the grapes you will hear named, the two workhorses of the Tokaj region, and they make everything from dry whites with a flinty edge to the legendary sweet Aszú.
Read the complete Gomboshegyi Cellars write-up.
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Gomboshegyi Cellars is where the day begins. Next is Component of Esztramos Hill.
Esztramos is a lumpy limestone hill rising from the valley of the Bódva in north-eastern Hungary, a stone's throw from the Slovak border. For much of the twentieth century it was quarried for limestone and iron ore, and in the process the miners broke into caves hidden inside it, full of crystal formations. The Rákóczi Cave, the best known of them, has delicate aragonite crystals and pools, and the hill now forms part of the Caves of Aggtelek Karst and Slovak Karst, a World Heritage site shared between the two countries. Visits to the cave are limited and usually need to be booked, so check before you count on getting inside.
Read the complete Component of Esztramos Hill write-up.
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Component of Esztramos Hill comes up about 104 km into the recorded legs. Next is Dobšinská Ice Cave.
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.
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about 189 km into the recorded legs you reach Dobšinská Ice Cave. Next is back through Component of Esztramos Hill.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Component of Esztramos Hill write-up.
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back through Component of Esztramos Hill, late in the day. Next is Gomboshegyi Cellars.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Gomboshegyi Cellars write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Gomboshegyi Cellars. That is the ride.
Gomboshegyi Cellars → Component of Esztramos Hill is 104 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Component of Esztramos Hill → Dobšinská Ice Cave is 85 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Dobšinská Ice Cave → back through Component of Esztramos Hill is 83 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Component of Esztramos Hill → Gomboshegyi Cellars is 104 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.