CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Rakhiv it runs 178 km to Rakhiv; allow about 4 h 32 of riding. It goes by way of Kuziy - Trybushany, Wooden Churches of Maramureş and back through Kuziy - Trybushany. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 850 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It crosses from Ukraine into Romania - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For 21 km this is Romania Maramures Wooden Churches Route, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
On the map, the line between Romania and Ukraine runs along the Tisza river here, and on either side of it the Carpathians rise in forested ridges. Maramarosh is the old name for the whole region, Maramureș to Romanians, and it is also the name of a protected forest within the Carpathian Biosphere Reserve on the Ukrainian side, one component of the World Heritage inscription for ancient and primeval beech forests of the Carpathians and other regions of Europe. These are forests where beech trees have grown undisturbed since the last ice age, with giants several hundred years old and a richness of life that has vanished from most of Europe.
Read the complete Maramarosh write-up.
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Maramarosh is where the day begins. Next is Kuziy - Trybushany.
The river Tisza runs fast and green out of the Ukrainian Carpathians, and for many kilometres it forms the border between Romania and Ukraine. On the Ukrainian bank, the forests of Kuziy and Trybushany are among the primeval beech woods protected in the Carpathian Biosphere Reserve and listed by UNESCO as part of the Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe. From the Romanian side, around Valea Vișeului, you look across the river at steep, wooded slopes where the trees have grown and died without interference for centuries.
Read the complete Kuziy - Trybushany write-up.
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Kuziy - Trybushany comes up 19 km in. Next is Wooden Churches of Maramureş.
Maramureș is a region in the far north of Romania, along the Ukrainian border, where traditions have survived more strongly than almost anywhere else in Europe. Its villages are known for their carved wooden gates, their haystacks and their wooden churches, eight of which form a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Bârsana, in the valley of the Iza river, has one of them, a church built in the eighteenth century, with a tall slender spire and a steep shingled roof.
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38 km in you reach Wooden Churches of Maramureş. Next is back through Kuziy - Trybushany.
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Read the complete Kuziy - Trybushany write-up.
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back through Kuziy - Trybushany, late in the day. Next is Maramarosh.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Maramarosh write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Maramarosh. That is the ride.
Maramarosh → Kuziy - Trybushany is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Kuziy - Trybushany → Wooden Churches of Maramureş is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Wooden Churches of Maramureş → back through Kuziy - Trybushany is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Kuziy - Trybushany → Maramarosh is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.