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 334 km round trip from Călimăneşti - roughly 8 h 25 in the saddle. The stops in between: Câmpulung - Jidova 1, Codrul secular Șinca and back through Câmpulung - Jidova 1. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,200 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 78 km this is Transfagarasan Highway, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
The Olt is the river that cuts through the Carpathians, and wherever a river does that, an army will want to sit beside it. At Păușa, near Călimănești, the Romans built a small fort called Arutela to guard the road through the Olt valley, part of the defensive line that protected their province of Dacia after Trajan's conquest at the start of the second century. The fort's remains lie by the river, partly lost to floods and later works, and are included in the Frontiers of the Roman Empire listing for Dacia, added by UNESCO in 2024.
Read the complete Păușa - Arutela / Poiana Bivolari write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Păușa - Arutela / Poiana Bivolari is where the day begins. Next is Câmpulung - Jidova 1.
Câmpulung Muscel lies at the foot of the Carpathians in northern Argeș county, and it claims the title of the first capital of Wallachia. Tradition credits its founding as a princely seat to the legendary Negru Vodă in the thirteenth century, and the old princely court and the Negru Vodă monastery in the town centre recall those early days of the Romanian principality. The town spreads along the valley of the Râul Târgului, with the mountains of Iezer and Piatra Craiului rising steeply to the north.
Read the complete Câmpulung - Jidova 1 write-up.
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Câmpulung - Jidova 1 comes up about 78 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.
Read the complete Codrul secular Șinca write-up.
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about 167 km into the recorded legs you reach Codrul secular Șinca. Next is back through Câmpulung - Jidova 1.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Câmpulung - Jidova 1 write-up.
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back through Câmpulung - Jidova 1, late in the day. Next is Păușa - Arutela / Poiana Bivolari.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Păușa - Arutela / Poiana Bivolari write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Păușa - Arutela / Poiana Bivolari. That is the ride.
Păușa - Arutela / Poiana Bivolari → Câmpulung - Jidova 1 is 78 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Câmpulung - Jidova 1 → Codrul secular Șinca is 89 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Codrul secular Șinca → back through Câmpulung - Jidova 1 is 90 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Câmpulung - Jidova 1 → Păușa - Arutela / Poiana Bivolari is 78 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.