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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554 km from Boşorod to Boşorod, about 15 h 37 of riding. The stops in between: Domogled - Valea Cernei - Ciucevele Cerne, Zăvoi - Agnaviae / Balta Neagră-Fânețe and back through Domogled - Valea Cernei - Ciucevele Cerne. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,350 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
Piatra Rosie, the Red Rock, is one of the six Dacian fortresses of the Orastie Mountains and, arguably, the most awkward to reach, which is exactly how its builders wanted it. The fortress stands on a steep hill above the village of Luncani, with its walls stepping up the slope in terraces, built in the characteristic Dacian way, from dressed stone blocks laid with timber beams. It was part of a defensive chain that protected the Dacian capital, Sarmizegetusa Regia, which lies higher in the mountains. UNESCO listed the group in 1999.
Read the complete Luncani-Piatra Rosie write-up.
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Luncani-Piatra Rosie is where the day begins. 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.
Read the complete Domogled - Valea Cernei - Ciucevele Cerne write-up.
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Domogled - Valea Cernei - Ciucevele Cerne comes up about 125 km into the recorded legs. 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.
Read the complete Zăvoi - Agnaviae / Balta Neagră-Fânețe write-up.
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about 278 km into the recorded legs you reach Zăvoi - Agnaviae / Balta Neagră-Fânețe. Next is back through Domogled - Valea Cernei - Ciucevele Cerne.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Domogled - Valea Cernei - Ciucevele Cerne write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Domogled - Valea Cernei - Ciucevele Cerne, late in the day. Next is Luncani-Piatra Rosie.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Luncani-Piatra Rosie write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Luncani-Piatra Rosie. That is the ride.
Luncani-Piatra Rosie → Domogled - Valea Cernei - Ciucevele Cerne is 125 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Domogled - Valea Cernei - Ciucevele Cerne → Zăvoi - Agnaviae / Balta Neagră-Fânețe is 153 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Zăvoi - Agnaviae / Balta Neagră-Fânețe → back through Domogled - Valea Cernei - Ciucevele Cerne is 135 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Domogled - Valea Cernei - Ciucevele Cerne → Luncani-Piatra Rosie is 141 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.