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 Kolochava it runs 533 km to Kolochava; allow about 12 h 07 of riding. It goes by way of Yasynia-Tserkva of Our Lord’s Ascension, Wooden Churches of Maramureş and back through Yasynia-Tserkva of Our Lord’s Ascension. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,150 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It crosses from Ukraine into Romania - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Lake Synevyr is the largest lake in the Ukrainian Carpathians, a deep, dark mountain lake at about a thousand metres, ringed by spruce forest and fed by springs. It sits in the Synevyr National Nature Park, in Zakarpattia, and the Darvaika forest to which the label refers is a part of the park's old beech woods, that UNESCO lists among the old beech woods of the Carpathians. The lake owes its name to a legend: a count named Shenborn had a daughter, Synya, who fell in love with a shepherd called Vyr, and when the count killed him, her tears made the lake, while the island in the middle is the shepherd's grave.
Read the complete Synevyr - Darvaika write-up.
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Synevyr - Darvaika is where the day begins. Next is Yasynia-Tserkva of Our Lord’s Ascension.
High in the Ukrainian Carpathians, in the valley of the Black Tisa, the village of Yasinia stretches along the river beneath steep spruce-clad slopes. On a rise near its centre stands a small wooden church, the Church of the Ascension, sometimes called the Strukivska church, built in the early nineteenth century by Hutsul craftsmen without nails. Its stepped roofs, covered in wooden shingles, and its small domes give it a cosy, fairytale shape, and it is part of the UNESCO listing of wooden tserkvas of the Carpathian region in Poland and Ukraine.
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Yasynia-Tserkva of Our Lord’s Ascension comes up about 169 km into the recorded legs. Next is Wooden Churches of Maramureş.
Maramureș is a region in the far north of Romania, along the Ukrainian border, where traditions have survived more strongly than almost anywhere else in Europe. Its villages are known for their carved wooden gates, their haystacks and their wooden churches, eight of which form a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Bârsana, in the valley of the Iza river, has one of them, a church built in the eighteenth century, with a tall slender spire and a steep shingled roof.
Read the complete Wooden Churches of Maramureş write-up.
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about 270 km into the recorded legs you reach Wooden Churches of Maramureş. Next is back through Yasynia-Tserkva of Our Lord’s Ascension.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Yasynia-Tserkva of Our Lord’s Ascension write-up.
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back through Yasynia-Tserkva of Our Lord’s Ascension, late in the day. Next is Synevyr - Darvaika.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Synevyr - Darvaika write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Synevyr - Darvaika. That is the ride.
Synevyr - Darvaika → Yasynia-Tserkva of Our Lord’s Ascension is 169 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Yasynia-Tserkva of Our Lord’s Ascension → Wooden Churches of Maramureş is 101 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Wooden Churches of Maramureş → back through Yasynia-Tserkva of Our Lord’s Ascension is 92 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Yasynia-Tserkva of Our Lord’s Ascension → Synevyr - Darvaika is 170 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.