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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A 323 km round trip from Boşorod - roughly 7 h 50 in the saddle. It goes by way of Banita, Comărnicel II, Voineasa - Crac-Găuri and back through Comărnicel II. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,600 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 63 km this is Romania Transalpina, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Târsa sits on a high plateau in the Șureanu mountains, in the same ring of hills that sheltered the Dacian kingdom's heart. The platoul, the plateau, is open grassland and forest edge at roughly a thousand metres or higher, the sort of place where shepherds still bring flocks in summer and the wind carries the sound of bells.
Read the complete Târsa - Platoul Târsa write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Târsa - Platoul Târsa is where the day begins. Next is Banita.
The Dacians, before the Romans conquered them, built a ring of fortresses in the mountains around their capital Sarmizegetusa Regia, and Banița is one of them, perched on a limestone peak, Piatra Cetii, above the village of the same name. It guarded the southern approach to the Dacian heartland, controlling the route from the Jiu valley, and it was taken by the Romans during Trajan's wars at the beginning of the second century. The Dacian Fortresses of the Orăștie Mountains, including Banița, were inscribed on the UNESCO list in 1999.
Read the complete Banita write-up.
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Banița comes up about 63 km into the recorded legs. Next is Comărnicel II.
The Retezat range rises to the south, its granite peaks carrying snow into early summer, and the whole area belongs to Hunedoara county, a land of old mining, Dacian history and shepherds who still move flocks through the hills.
Read the complete Comărnicel II write-up.
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about 94 km into the recorded legs you reach Comărnicel II. Next is Voineasa - Crac-Găuri.
North of the Jiu Valley, the land rises steeply into the Șureanu and Parâng mountains, a wild region of high ridges, deep valleys, spruce forests and alpine meadows. Crac-Găuri lies up in this high country, linked by name to the old routes that crossed the mountains in Roman times, when Dacia was a province and soldiers watched the passes between the Transylvanian basin and the south. Little is visible today, and the remoteness is half the attraction: this is mountain land, where shepherds bring their flocks to high pastures in summer and the forest stretches for miles.
Read the complete Voineasa - Crac-Găuri write-up.
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Voineasa - Crac-Găuri, about halfway. Next is back through Comărnicel II.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Comărnicel II write-up.
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back through Comărnicel II sits at 117 km, about halfway. Next is back through Banita.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Banita write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Banita comes up about 259 km into the recorded legs. Next is Târsa - Platoul Târsa.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Târsa - Platoul Târsa write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Târsa - Platoul Târsa closes the day.
Târsa - Platoul Târsa → Banita is 63 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Banița → Comărnicel II is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Comărnicel II → Voineasa - Crac-Găuri is 63 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Voineasa - Crac-Găuri → back through Comărnicel II is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Comărnicel II → back through Banita is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Banita → Târsa - Platoul Târsa is 63 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.