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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A 417 km round trip from Tolcsva - roughly 8 h 05 in the saddle. The stops in between: Ungvári Wine Cellar, Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the, Rožok and back through Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the. It crosses Hungary, Slovakia and Ukraine - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Tolcsva is a quiet village in the Tokaj wine region of northeastern Hungary, on the slopes of the Zemplén hills above the Bodrog river. The Oremus cellars here are among the most famous in the region: a network of tunnels cut into the volcanic rock over centuries, their walls black with the noble mould that thrives in the damp, steady cold. The estate has been owned since the 1990s by the family behind Vega Sicilia, one of Spain's most celebrated wineries, and it has become a showcase for the revival of Tokaji after the communist decades.
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Oremus Cellars is where the day begins. Next is Ungvári Wine Cellar.
Sátoraljaújhely is a town split in two by a river and a border. The Ronyva stream divides it into a Hungarian half and a Slovak half, Slovenské Nové Mesto, and the line became a national frontier after the First World War, when streets and gardens were cut in two. Today the border is open and easy to cross, and a pleasant walk takes you from one country to the other along the bank. The town sits at the northern tip of the Tokaj wine region, where the Zemplén hills fall to the plain, and it is a good starting point for exploring that country.
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Ungvári Wine Cellar comes up about 26 km into the recorded legs. Next is Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the.
Snina is a small town at the foot of the Bukovské Hills, in the far north-east corner of Slovakia, a place where the road seems to run out of country. Beyond lies the Ukrainian border and the forests of the Eastern Carpathians, and the ancient beech woods around Rožok are part of a transnational UNESCO site, listed in 2007 and since enlarged, that protects some of the last primeval beech forests in Europe. Here the trees grow in the old way, with fallen trunks left to rot, mosses carpeting the forest floor and giant beeches reaching skyward. The silence is deep and green.
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about 115 km into the recorded legs you reach Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the. Next is Rožok.
Rožok is a small patch of very old forest on the eastern edge of Slovakia, close to the borders with Poland and Ukraine, and it is one of the components of the Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe, a World Heritage Site that stretches across many countries. Here, on a steep slope above the Starina reservoir, beech trees have grown undisturbed for centuries, some of them huge, with smooth grey trunks and wide canopies, and fallen trees lie rotting on the forest floor, feeding fungi, insects and birds.
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Rožok, about halfway. Next is back through Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the.
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back through Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the sits at 201 km, about halfway. Next is back through Ungvári Wine Cellar.
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Read the complete Ungvári Wine Cellar write-up.
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back through Ungvári Wine Cellar comes up about 390 km into the recorded legs. Next is Oremus Cellars.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Oremus Cellars write-up.
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Oremus Cellars closes the day.
Oremus Cellars → Ungvári Wine Cellar is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Ungvári Wine Cellar → Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the is 89 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the → Rožok is 93 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Rožok → back through Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the is 92 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the → back through Ungvári Wine Cellar is 90 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Ungvári Wine Cellar → Oremus Cellars is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.