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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243 km from Ocland to Ocland, about 5 h 24 of riding. It goes by way of Băile Homorod - Cekend, Păuleni - Dealul Silaș, Sărățeni - Casa Sării and back through Păuleni - Dealul Silaș. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 800 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Sânpaul, Homoródszentpál to its Hungarian-speaking inhabitants, is a village in the Homorod valley in Harghita county, in the heart of the Székely Land of eastern Transylvania. Near the village, the Romans built a fort on the eastern edge of their province of Dacia, guarding routes through the hills from the Carpathians. The remains, now earthworks in the fields, are part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire, Dacia, listed by UNESCO in 2024. Nearby Ocland has a medieval fortification on a hill known as Hășmaș castle.
Read the complete Sânpaul - Cetate write-up.
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Sânpaul - Cetate is where the day begins. Next is Băile Homorod - Cekend.
Deep in the forests of Harghita county, in the heart of the Székely Land, the small spa of Băile Homorod sits in a valley among spruce and beech, with wooden villas, mineral springs and the smell of resin in the air. The springs here produce borvíz, naturally carbonated mineral water, which the Székely people drink as their everyday water and believe has healing powers. Cekend is the name attached to a nearby hill site on the eastern line of Roman Dacia's frontier, one of hundreds of components listed together as a World Heritage Site in 2024.
Read the complete Băile Homorod - Cekend write-up.
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Băile Homorod - Cekend comes up about 39 km into the recorded legs. Next is Păuleni - Dealul Silaș.
Corund is a village where almost every house seems to sell pottery. Stalls line the main road through this Székely community in Harghita county, piled high with plates, jugs and bowls in white, blue, green and brown, painted with flowers and birds. Pottery has been made here for centuries, using local clay, and the craft is still alive, though much of what is sold today is made for tourists. Păuleni and the hill called Dealul Silaș lie nearby, an archaeological site among many in this land of rolling hills and forested ridges, with little to see on the ground.
Read the complete Păuleni - Dealul Silaș write-up.
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about 84 km into the recorded legs you reach Păuleni - Dealul Silaș. Next is Sărățeni - Casa Sării.
Salt has shaped this corner of Transylvania for thousands of years. Beneath the hills of the Sovata and Praid area lies a huge salt dome, and in places it reaches the surface, creating salt cliffs, salty springs and lakes. Sărățeni, a village in the Târnava Mică valley, takes its name from the salt, and Casa Sării, the salt house, is the local name for the spot marked here. The Romans valued this salt as much as Dacian gold, and the eastern frontier of their province ran along these hills, with a fort at Sărățeni among the posts that watched the valleys and, no doubt, the salt routes.
Read the complete Sărățeni - Casa Sării write-up.
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Sărățeni - Casa Sării, about halfway. Next is back through Păuleni - Dealul Silaș.
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Read the complete Păuleni - Dealul Silaș write-up.
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back through Păuleni - Dealul Silaș sits at 111 km, about halfway. Next is back through Băile Homorod - Cekend.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Băile Homorod - Cekend write-up.
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back through Băile Homorod - Cekend comes up about 196 km into the recorded legs. Next is Sânpaul - Cetate.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Sânpaul - Cetate write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Sânpaul - Cetate closes the day.
Sânpaul - Cetate → Băile Homorod - Cekend is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Băile Homorod - Cekend → Păuleni - Dealul Silaș is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Păuleni - Dealul Silaș → Sărățeni - Casa Sării is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Sărățeni - Casa Sării → back through Păuleni - Dealul Silaș is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Păuleni - Dealul Silaș → back through Băile Homorod - Cekend is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Băile Homorod - Cekend → Sânpaul - Cetate is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.