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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264 km from Vătava to Vătava, about 6 h 05 of riding. It goes by way of Ideciu de Sus - Dealul Custurii, Chiheru de Jos - Dealul Pogor, Păuleni - Dealul Silaș and back through Chiheru de Jos - Dealul Pogor. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
For about a century and a half, the Roman province of Dacia was a wedge of empire pushed north of the Danube, and its eastern edge ran along the curve of the Carpathians through what is now central Romania. In 2024, UNESCO added the frontiers of the Roman Empire in Dacia to its list, a long chain of forts, watchtowers and earthworks. Vătava, in the upper Mureș valley, is one of the sites, with traces of a Roman fortification on a hill called Cetățele, the little fortresses. Not much is visible to the casual eye: earthworks, a few stones, the outline of a position chosen for its view along the valley.
Read the complete Vătava - Cetățele write-up.
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Vătava - Cetățele is where the day begins. Next is Ideciu de Sus - Dealul Custurii.
Salt has shaped this part of Transylvania as much as any river. The hills of the eastern Transylvanian basin sit on enormous salt deposits, and the springs and lakes are often salty, as in Sărățeni, whose name says it all, and where a small salt museum explains the history. Ideciu de Sus, a village in the Mureș valley above Reghin, lies in this country, and the hill of Dealul Custurii nearby carried a Roman watchtower on the eastern frontier of Dacia, included in UNESCO's inscription of 2024. The Romans valued salt highly, and controlling the deposits was one reason they kept a watchful eye on these hills.
Read the complete Ideciu de Sus - Dealul Custurii write-up.
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Ideciu de Sus - Dealul Custurii comes up about 36 km into the recorded legs. Next is Chiheru de Jos - Dealul Pogor.
Transylvania's rolling middle country does not have an obvious centre of gravity, and Chiheru de Jos sits right in it. The village lies in Mures county, in the hills between the Gurghiu valley and the upper Mures, a region of grassy ridges, orchards, and beech and oak woods that rise to the dark mass of the Calimani and Gurghiu mountains to the east.
Read the complete Chiheru de Jos - Dealul Pogor write-up.
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about 67 km into the recorded legs you reach Chiheru de Jos - Dealul Pogor. Next is Păuleni - Dealul Silaș.
Corund is a village where almost every house seems to sell pottery. Stalls line the main road through this Székely community in Harghita county, piled high with plates, jugs and bowls in white, blue, green and brown, painted with flowers and birds. Pottery has been made here for centuries, using local clay, and the craft is still alive, though much of what is sold today is made for tourists. Păuleni and the hill called Dealul Silaș lie nearby, an archaeological site among many in this land of rolling hills and forested ridges, with little to see on the ground.
Read the complete Păuleni - Dealul Silaș write-up.
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Păuleni - Dealul Silaș, about halfway. Next is back through Chiheru de Jos - Dealul Pogor.
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Read the complete Chiheru de Jos - Dealul Pogor write-up.
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back through Chiheru de Jos - Dealul Pogor sits at 130 km, about halfway. Next is back through Ideciu de Sus - Dealul Custurii.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Ideciu de Sus - Dealul Custurii write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Ideciu de Sus - Dealul Custurii comes up about 228 km into the recorded legs. Next is Vătava - Cetățele.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Vătava - Cetățele write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Vătava - Cetățele closes the day.
Vătava - Cetățele → Ideciu de Sus - Dealul Custurii is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Ideciu de Sus - Dealul Custurii → Chiheru de Jos - Dealul Pogor is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Chiheru de Jos - Dealul Pogor → Păuleni - Dealul Silaș is 64 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Păuleni - Dealul Silaș → back through Chiheru de Jos - Dealul Pogor is 66 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Chiheru de Jos - Dealul Pogor → back through Ideciu de Sus - Dealul Custurii is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Ideciu de Sus - Dealul Custurii → Vătava - Cetățele is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.