CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Kolochava it runs 201 km to Kolochava; allow about 5 h 29 of riding. It goes by way of Synevyr - Kvasovets, Zacharovanyi Krai - Velykyi Dil and back through Synevyr - Kvasovets. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,050 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
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 Synevyr - Kvasovets.
Up in the Carpathians of Transcarpathia lies the largest lake in the Ukrainian mountains, and a legend that explains it. Synevyr, set in a bowl of spruce forest at just under a thousand metres, is said to have been born from the tears of a count's daughter, Syn, who fell in love with a herdsman, Vyr, and was parted from him. Her father killed the young man, and she wept so much that the tears made the lake, which is why its name is Syn-Vyr. Whatever the truth, the lake is beautiful, dark and still, with a small island and a wooden pavilion on its shore, and the National Park around it is among the finest in the Carpathians.
Read the complete Synevyr - Kvasovets write-up.
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Synevyr - Kvasovets comes up 36 km in. Next is Zacharovanyi Krai - Velykyi Dil.
In Transcarpathia, the westernmost corner of Ukraine, the Carpathians drop down to a plain that feels more Central European than Eastern. The region was part of Hungary for a thousand years, then Czechoslovakia, then briefly independent, then the Soviet Union and finally Ukraine, and the villages carry a mix of languages, churches and foods. Zacharovanyi Krai, the Enchanted Land, is the name of a nature park in the hills of this region, with beech forests, meadows, mineral springs and small rivers.
Read the complete Zacharovanyi Krai - Velykyi Dil write-up.
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71 km in you reach Zacharovanyi Krai - Velykyi Dil. Next is back through Synevyr - Kvasovets.
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Read the complete Synevyr - Kvasovets write-up.
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back through Synevyr - Kvasovets, 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 → Synevyr - Kvasovets is 11 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Synevyr - Kvasovets → Zacharovanyi Krai - Velykyi Dil is 90 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Zacharovanyi Krai - Velykyi Dil → back through Synevyr - Kvasovets is 90 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Synevyr - Kvasovets → Synevyr - Darvaika is 11 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.