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 332 km round trip from Tarcal - roughly 5 h 34 in the saddle. It goes by way of Component of Szendrő-Rudabánya Hill, Dobšinská Ice Cave and back through Component of Szendrő-Rudabánya Hill. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 800 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It crosses from Hungary into Slovakia - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. The line favours views over speed.
Tokaj is the place where the world's first classified wine region was drawn on a map, in 1737, long before Burgundy or Bordeaux got round to the idea. The wine country of Tokaj-Hegyalja lies in the far north-east of Hungary, where the Zemplén hills, old volcanoes worn down into rounded cones, fall away to the plain at the meeting of the Tisza and Bodrog rivers. Tarcal and Tokaj sit at the foot of the slope, and the vines climb the south-facing hills above them, in a patchwork of terraces, stone walls and small plots.
Read the complete Tokaj Wine Region write-up.
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Tokaj Wine Region is where the day begins. Next is Component of Szendrő-Rudabánya Hill.
The Szendrő-Rudabánya hills are a modest ridge of low wooded hills in northeastern Hungary, between the Bódva and Sajó valleys, and they are not on any tourist itinerary. That is a large part of their charm. This is the quiet borderland near Slovakia, with small villages, orchards, vineyards and forests of oak and hornbeam, where the roads are empty and the pace slows to that of a cart.
Read the complete Component of Szendrő-Rudabánya Hill write-up.
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Component of Szendrő-Rudabánya Hill comes up about 82 km into the recorded legs. Next is Dobšinská Ice Cave.
Step out of a warm summer day into the Dobšinská Ice Cave and the temperature drops to just below freezing within a few metres. The cave, on the northern edge of the Slovak Paradise in eastern Slovakia, holds a vast mass of ice, tens of thousands of cubic metres, with frozen floors, walls and columns that have built up over thousands of years. It was explored in 1870 by Eugen Ruffinyi, opened to visitors soon after, and became one of the first caves in Europe to be lit by electricity. It is part of the UNESCO-listed Caves of Aggtelek Karst and Slovak Karst, shared with Hungary.
Read the complete Dobšinská Ice Cave write-up.
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about 166 km into the recorded legs you reach Dobšinská Ice Cave. Next is back through Component of Szendrő-Rudabánya Hill.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Component of Szendrő-Rudabánya Hill write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Component of Szendrő-Rudabánya Hill, late in the day. Next is Tokaj Wine Region.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Tokaj Wine Region write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Tokaj Wine Region. That is the ride.
Tokaj Wine Region → Component of Szendrő-Rudabánya Hill is 82 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Component of Szendrő-Rudabánya Hill → Dobšinská Ice Cave is 84 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Dobšinská Ice Cave → back through Component of Szendrő-Rudabánya Hill is 84 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Component of Szendrő-Rudabánya Hill → Tokaj Wine Region is 82 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.