CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 550 km round trip from Vărădia - roughly 11 h 08 in the saddle. On the way it passes Cheile Nerei-Beușnița, Izvoarele Nerei, Mehadia - Praetorium / Zidină and Domogled - Valea Cernei - Iauna Craiovei. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,200 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Vărădia is a village in the Banat, in southwestern Romania, close to the Serbian border, where the hills of the Banat mountains descend towards the Pannonian plain. In Roman times, it was the site of Arcidava, a fort on the road that Trajan's legions built to advance from the Danube into Dacia during the wars of 101 to 106, and later a garrison on the frontier. The site at Chilii, near the village, is part of the UNESCO listing of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire, Dacia. The fort's earthworks can be traced on a hill above the Caraș river, and the location, controlling the valley, explains why it was chosen.
Read the complete Vărădia - Chilii write-up.
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Vărădia - Chilii is where the day begins. Next is Cheile Nerei-Beușnița.
The water at Ochiul Beiului, the Bey's Eye, is such an intense turquoise that it looks dyed, and the legend says it formed from the tears of a Turkish nobleman mourning a lost love. It is one of the jewels of the Cheile Nerei-Beușnița National Park, in the mountains of Banat in south-western Romania, where the Nera river has cut a deep gorge through limestone over about twenty kilometres. The park's ancient beech forests are part of the UNESCO listing of primeval beech forests of the Carpathians and other regions of Europe, and the waterfalls, caves and karst springs make it one of the most beautiful corners of the country.
Read the complete Cheile Nerei-Beușnița write-up.
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Cheile Nerei-Beușnița comes up 40 km in. Next is Izvoarele Nerei.
High in the Semenic mountains of south-western Romania, in the Banat region, the Nera river is born in a forest of ancient beech trees. The Izvoarele Nerei reserve, the springs of the Nera, protects one of the largest areas of virgin beech forest in Europe, with trees over thirty metres tall and centuries old, untouched by logging. It is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe.
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79 km in you reach Izvoarele Nerei. Next is Mehadia - Praetorium / Zidină.
The Cerna valley in south-western Romania has been a corridor for armies and travellers since antiquity. Between the Banat mountains and the Mehedinți plateau, the valley carried the Roman road from the Danube crossing at Drobeta northwards toward Tibiscum and the heart of Dacia. At Mehadia, the Romans built a fort known as Ad Mediam, and the remains called Praetorium or Zidină, meaning ruined walls, mark the site. The stone foundations are visible in places, and the site is one of the components of the Roman frontier in Dacia proposed for World Heritage status.
Read the complete Mehadia - Praetorium / Zidină write-up.
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Mehadia - Praetorium / Zidină, about halfway. Next is Domogled - Valea Cernei - Iauna Craiovei.
The Cerna is a mountain river in south-western Romania, flowing through a long, deep valley between the Mehedinți and Cerna mountains before reaching the old spa town of Băile Herculane. The Domogled-Valea Cernei National Park protects this valley and the mountains around it, a landscape of limestone cliffs, gorges, caves and some of the largest old-growth beech forests in Europe, part of the UNESCO site for the ancient and primeval beech forests of the Carpathians and other regions of Europe.
Read the complete Domogled - Valea Cernei - Iauna Craiovei write-up.
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Domogled - Valea Cernei - Iauna Craiovei sits at 158 km, about halfway. Next is back through Mehadia - Praetorium / Zidină.
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Read the complete Mehadia - Praetorium / Zidină write-up.
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back through Mehadia - Praetorium / Zidină comes up 198 km in. Next is back through Izvoarele Nerei.
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Read the complete Izvoarele Nerei write-up.
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237 km in you reach back through Izvoarele Nerei. Next is back through Cheile Nerei-Beușnița.
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Read the complete Cheile Nerei-Beușnița write-up.
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back through Cheile Nerei-Beușnița, late in the day. Next is Vărădia - Chilii.
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Read the complete Vărădia - Chilii write-up.
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The route ends here after 550 km.
Vărădia - Chilii → Cheile Nerei-Beușnița is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cheile Nerei-Beușnița → Izvoarele Nerei is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Izvoarele Nerei → Mehadia - Praetorium / Zidină is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Mehadia - Praetorium / Zidină → Domogled - Valea Cernei - Iauna Craiovei is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Domogled - Valea Cernei - Iauna Craiovei → back through Mehadia - Praetorium / Zidină is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Mehadia - Praetorium / Zidină → back through Izvoarele Nerei is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Izvoarele Nerei → back through Cheile Nerei-Beușnița is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cheile Nerei-Beușnița → Vărădia - Chilii is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.