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: planning record, not independently verified geometry.
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From Anina it runs 542 km to Anina; allow about 9 h 19 of riding. The stops in between: Teregova - La Hideg, Domogled - Valea Cernei - Iauna Craiovei, Domogled - Valea Cernei - Ciucevele Cerne and back through Domogled - Valea Cernei - Iauna Craiovei. 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.
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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Izvoarele Nerei is where the day begins. Next is Teregova - La Hideg.
Teregova is a village in the narrow corridor between the Banat mountains and the Țarcu range in western Romania, where the Timiș river flows north toward the plain and a low pass leads south to the Cerna and the Danube. This corridor has been a route since ancient times: the Roman road from Dierna, on the Danube, to Tibiscum, near Caransebeș, ran through here, linking the river crossing with the heart of the province of Dacia. La Hideg is a local place name near the village, and the point is listed among the sites of the Roman frontier of Dacia, the UNESCO site recognised in 2024. As with many such sites, the remains may be hard to spot, but the logic of the location is clear.
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Teregova - La Hideg comes up about 82 km into the recorded legs. Next is 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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about 169 km into the recorded legs you reach Domogled - Valea Cernei - Iauna Craiovei. Next is 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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Domogled - Valea Cernei - Ciucevele Cerne, about halfway. Next is back through Domogled - Valea Cernei - Iauna Craiovei.
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back through Domogled - Valea Cernei - Iauna Craiovei sits at 361 km, about halfway. Next is back through Teregova - La Hideg.
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back through Teregova - La Hideg comes up about 466 km into the recorded legs. Next is Izvoarele Nerei.
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Izvoarele Nerei closes the day.
Izvoarele Nerei → Teregova - La Hideg is 82 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Teregova - La Hideg → Domogled - Valea Cernei - Iauna Craiovei is 87 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Domogled - Valea Cernei - Iauna Craiovei → Domogled - Valea Cernei - Ciucevele Cerne is 105 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Domogled - Valea Cernei - Ciucevele Cerne → back through Domogled - Valea Cernei - Iauna Craiovei is 105 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Domogled - Valea Cernei - Iauna Craiovei → back through Teregova - La Hideg is 87 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Teregova - La Hideg → Izvoarele Nerei is 82 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.