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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From Odorheiu Secuiesc it runs 376 km to Odorheiu Secuiesc; allow about 8 h 16 of riding. On the way it passes Villages with Fortified Churches in Transy, Codrul secular Șinca and back through Villages with Fortified Churches in Transy. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,200 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Odorheiu Secuiesc is a town that answers to two names, and if you ask for directions you will probably hear the Hungarian one, Székelyudvarhely. This is the heart of Székely Land, the Hungarian-speaking corner of eastern Transylvania, and the signs, the church spires and the way people greet you all make that plain within a minute of arriving. Piatra Coțofană, the Magpie Stone, is one of the rocky heights on the hills around the town, a few kilometres out among pasture and beech woods.
Read the complete Odorheiu Secuiesc - Piatra Coțofană write-up.
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Odorheiu Secuiesc - Piatra Coțofană is where the day begins. Next is Villages with Fortified Churches in Transy.
South of Sighișoara the hills fold into long, grassy valleys, and almost every one of them hides a village built around a church that was also a castle. This marker sits among them, close to Șaeș and Apold, two of the old Saxon settlements whose German names, Schaas and Trappold, still turn up on church plaques and in the memories of the few families who stayed.
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Villages with Fortified Churches in Transy comes up about 63 km into the recorded legs. Next is Codrul secular Șinca.
Codru is an old Romanian word for a deep forest, and the Codrul Secular Șinca, the ancient forest of Șinca, is exactly that: a stand of old-growth beech and fir on the northern slopes of the Făgăraș mountains in Brașov county, where trees have grown, died and fallen for centuries without being cut. It is part of the UNESCO listing of the ancient and primeval beech forests of Europe, a chain of protected forests across many countries that together tell the story of how beech spread across the continent after the last ice age. Walking among trees that are hundreds of years old, with fallen trunks covered in moss and fungi and the canopy closing high above, is a humbling experience.
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about 188 km into the recorded legs you reach Codrul secular Șinca. Next is back through Villages with Fortified Churches in Transy.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Villages with Fortified Churches in Transy write-up.
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back through Villages with Fortified Churches in Transy, late in the day. Next is Odorheiu Secuiesc - Piatra Coțofană.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Odorheiu Secuiesc - Piatra Coțofană write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Odorheiu Secuiesc - Piatra Coțofană. That is the ride.
Odorheiu Secuiesc - Piatra Coțofană → Villages with Fortified Churches in Transy is 63 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Villages with Fortified Churches in Transy → Codrul secular Șinca is 125 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Codrul secular Șinca → back through Villages with Fortified Churches in Transy is 126 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Villages with Fortified Churches in Transy → Odorheiu Secuiesc - Piatra Coțofană is 63 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.