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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458 km from Kolochava to Kolochava, about 10 h 19 of riding. It goes by way of Zacharovanyi Krai - Velykyi Dil, Matkiv-Tserkva of the Synaxis of the Bless and back through Zacharovanyi Krai - Velykyi Dil. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,000 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
In the Carpathian mountains of Transcarpathia, in western Ukraine, the forests around Synevyr include some of the last remaining primeval beech forests in Europe, part of the transnational World Heritage Site of the Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe. Strymba is one of the protected forest areas, in the hills near the village of Kolochava, where beech trees grow old and die without human interference, creating a rich habitat for fungi, insects, birds and animals.
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Synevyr - Strymba is where the day begins. 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.
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Zacharovanyi Krai - Velykyi Dil comes up about 100 km into the recorded legs. Next is Matkiv-Tserkva of the Synaxis of the Bless.
Matkiv is a small village in the upper valley of the Stryi river, in the Turka district of the Lviv region, high in the Ukrainian Carpathians. Its wooden church, the tserkva of the Synaxis of the Blessed Virgin Mary, was built in the first half of the nineteenth century, and it is a fine example of the Boyko tradition, named after the highland people who have lived in these mountains for centuries. The church has three log frames topped by tiered pyramidal roofs, each level slightly smaller than the one below, and the whole building is covered in wooden shingles that have weathered to a silver grey. It is part of the UNESCO listing of wooden tserkvas of the Carpathian region in Poland and Ukraine.
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about 229 km into the recorded legs you reach Matkiv-Tserkva of the Synaxis of the Bless. Next is back through Zacharovanyi Krai - Velykyi Dil.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Zacharovanyi Krai - Velykyi Dil write-up.
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back through Zacharovanyi Krai - Velykyi Dil, late in the day. Next is Synevyr - Strymba.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Synevyr - Strymba write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Synevyr - Strymba. That is the ride.
Synevyr - Strymba → Zacharovanyi Krai - Velykyi Dil is 100 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Zacharovanyi Krai - Velykyi Dil → Matkiv-Tserkva of the Synaxis of the Bless is 129 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Matkiv-Tserkva of the Synaxis of the Bless → back through Zacharovanyi Krai - Velykyi Dil is 129 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Zacharovanyi Krai - Velykyi Dil → Synevyr - Strymba is 100 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.