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 Sărățeni it runs 240 km to Sărățeni; allow about 5 h 19 of riding. On the way it passes Păuleni - Dealul Silaș, Odorheiu Secuiesc - Piatra Coțofană, Baraolt - Véczer and back through Odorheiu Secuiesc - Piatra Coțofană. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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 is where the day begins. 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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Păuleni - Dealul Silaș comes up about 40 km into the recorded legs. Next is Odorheiu Secuiesc - Piatra Coțofană.
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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about 69 km into the recorded legs you reach Odorheiu Secuiesc - Piatra Coțofană. Next is Baraolt - Véczer.
In Baraolt you are more likely to hear Hungarian than Romanian. This small town lies in Covasna County, in the heart of the Székely Land, where the Székely Hungarian community has lived for centuries, with its own traditions, carved wooden gates, Calvinist and Catholic churches and a fierce sense of identity. Véczer, near Baraolt, is one of the points on the eastern frontier of Roman Dacia, where small forts and watchtowers watched over the passes through the eastern Carpathians, and it belongs to the Frontiers of the Roman Empire listing for Dacia, added by UNESCO in 2024.
Read the complete Baraolt - Véczer write-up.
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Baraolt - Véczer, about halfway. Next is back through Odorheiu Secuiesc - Piatra Coțofană.
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Read the complete Odorheiu Secuiesc - Piatra Coțofană write-up.
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back through Odorheiu Secuiesc - Piatra Coțofană sits at 127 km, 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 comes up about 198 km into the recorded legs. Next is Sărățeni - Casa Sării.
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Read the complete Sărățeni - Casa Sării write-up.
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Sărățeni - Casa Sării closes the day.
Sărățeni - Casa Sării → Păuleni - Dealul Silaș is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Păuleni - Dealul Silaș → Odorheiu Secuiesc - Piatra Coțofană is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Odorheiu Secuiesc - Piatra Coțofană → Baraolt - Véczer is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Baraolt - Véczer → back through Odorheiu Secuiesc - Piatra Coțofană is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Odorheiu Secuiesc - Piatra Coțofană → back through Păuleni - Dealul Silaș is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Păuleni - Dealul Silaș → Sărățeni - Casa Sării is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.