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 Sárospatak it runs 418 km to Sárospatak; allow about 7 h 38 of riding. It goes by way of Tokaj Wine Region Historic Cultural Landsc, Component of Szendrő-Rudabánya Hill, Component of Plešivec plateau and Dobšinská Ice Cave. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 800 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It crosses from Hungary into Slovakia - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Sárospatak is an old town on the Bodrog river, right where the foothills of the Zemplén range run out into the plain, and in Hungarian history it carries more weight than its size suggests. It was a seat of the Rákóczi family, and the castle in town was one of their strongholds in the long wars against the Habsburgs. Local tradition also claims it as the birthplace of Saint Elisabeth of Hungary, in 1207, and the Reformed College here, founded in the sixteenth century, once counted the Czech educator Comenius among its teachers. Not bad for a small place at the edge of the map.
Read the complete Rákóczi Wine Cellar write-up.
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Rákóczi Wine Cellar is where the day begins. Next is Tokaj Wine Region Historic Cultural Landsc.
Some wine regions are famous for a grape. Tokaj is famous for rot. Here in north-eastern Hungary, where the volcanic Zemplén hills meet the Great Plain and the Bodrog flows into the Tisza, autumn mists from the rivers encourage noble rot on the grapes, shrivelling them and concentrating their sugar. The berries, picked one by one, become aszú, and the sweet wine made from them has been celebrated for centuries. A line attributed to Louis XIV calls it the wine of kings and the king of wines.
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Tokaj Wine Region Historic Cultural Landsc comes up about 40 km into the recorded legs. Next is Component of Szendrő-Rudabánya Hill.
The Szendrő-Rudabánya hills are a modest ridge of low wooded hills in northeastern Hungary, between the Bódva and Sajó valleys, and they are not on any tourist itinerary. That is a large part of their charm. This is the quiet borderland near Slovakia, with small villages, orchards, vineyards and forests of oak and hornbeam, where the roads are empty and the pace slows to that of a cart.
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about 122 km into the recorded legs you reach Component of Szendrő-Rudabánya Hill. Next is Component of Plešivec plateau.
The Slovak Karst is a world of limestone plateaus and deep gorges in southern Slovakia, along the Hungarian border, and the Plešivec plateau is one of its great tablelands, a high, flat-topped block of rock rising steeply above the valleys of the Slaná and the Štítnik rivers. Its surface is a rolling steppe of grass and scrub, pitted with sinkholes, and beneath it lies a maze of caves and abysses, part of the UNESCO site of the Caves of Aggtelek Karst and Slovak Karst.
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Component of Plešivec plateau, about halfway. Next is Dobšinská Ice Cave.
Step out of a warm summer day into the Dobšinská Ice Cave and the temperature drops to just below freezing within a few metres. The cave, on the northern edge of the Slovak Paradise in eastern Slovakia, holds a vast mass of ice, tens of thousands of cubic metres, with frozen floors, walls and columns that have built up over thousands of years. It was explored in 1870 by Eugen Ruffinyi, opened to visitors soon after, and became one of the first caves in Europe to be lit by electricity. It is part of the UNESCO-listed Caves of Aggtelek Karst and Slovak Karst, shared with Hungary.
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Dobšinská Ice Cave sits at 196 km, about halfway. Next is back through Component of Plešivec plateau.
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back through Component of Plešivec plateau comes up about 254 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Component of Szendrő-Rudabánya Hill.
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about 297 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Component of Szendrő-Rudabánya Hill. Next is back through Tokaj Wine Region Historic Cultural Landsc.
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Read the complete Tokaj Wine Region Historic Cultural Landsc write-up.
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back through Tokaj Wine Region Historic Cultural Landsc, late in the day. Next is Rákóczi Wine Cellar.
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Read the complete Rákóczi Wine Cellar write-up.
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The route ends here after 418 km.
Rákóczi Wine Cellar → Tokaj Wine Region Historic Cultural Landsc is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Tokaj Wine Region Historic Cultural Landsc → Component of Szendrő-Rudabánya Hill is 82 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Component of Szendrő-Rudabánya Hill → Component of Plešivec plateau is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Component of Plešivec plateau → Dobšinská Ice Cave is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Dobšinská Ice Cave → back through Component of Plešivec plateau is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Component of Plešivec plateau → back through Component of Szendrő-Rudabánya Hill is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Component of Szendrő-Rudabánya Hill → back through Tokaj Wine Region Historic Cultural Landsc is 82 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Tokaj Wine Region Historic Cultural Landsc → Rákóczi Wine Cellar is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.