CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
The recorded total and the leg detail need reconciliation. Inspect the leg notes before using this record for timing or navigation. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
Reading history stays on this device. My road watch requires a separate selection; opening it does not subscribe this ride.
Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
A 454 km round trip from Zăvoi - roughly 8 h 34 in the saddle. The stops in between: Domogled - Valea Cernei - Iauna Craiovei, Drobeta-Turnu Severin -Drobeta and back through Domogled - Valea Cernei - Iauna Craiovei. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,200 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It crosses from Romania into Serbia - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The Bistra valley is a natural corridor, and armies have known it for millennia. Running east from Caransebeș toward the Iron Gate of Transylvania and the Hațeg basin, it was the route by which Trajan's legions advanced on the Dacian heartland in the wars of AD 101 to 106, and later the road that linked Roman forts and towns along the way. Near the village of Voislova, by the railway station, the remains of a Roman site have been identified as counted within the UNESCO serial site of the Dacian frontier, a reminder of how important this valley was to the Roman presence in the province.
Read the complete Voislova - Gara CFR write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Voislova - Gara CFR is where the day begins. 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Domogled - Valea Cernei - Iauna Craiovei comes up 69 km in. Next is Drobeta-Turnu Severin -Drobeta.
The Danube at Drobeta is a river that has just come out of a gorge and is not yet sure what to do with its freedom. Upstream, it squeezes through the Iron Gates, the great rock gorge between the Carpathians and the Balkans, and the water here has the heavy, slow look of something that has been pent up. Drobeta-Turnu Severin lies just below the dams, a city of about a hundred thousand, and on its riverbank are the stones of a very old story.
Read the complete Drobeta-Turnu Severin -Drobeta write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
137 km in you reach Drobeta-Turnu Severin -Drobeta. Next is back through Domogled - Valea Cernei - Iauna Craiovei.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Domogled - Valea Cernei - Iauna Craiovei write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Domogled - Valea Cernei - Iauna Craiovei, late in the day. Next is Voislova - Gara CFR.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Voislova - Gara CFR write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Voislova - Gara CFR. That is the ride.
Voislova - Gara CFR → Domogled - Valea Cernei - Iauna Craiovei is 63 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Domogled - Valea Cernei - Iauna Craiovei → Drobeta-Turnu Severin -Drobeta is 74 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Drobeta-Turnu Severin -Drobeta → back through Domogled - Valea Cernei - Iauna Craiovei is 74 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Domogled - Valea Cernei - Iauna Craiovei → Voislova - Gara CFR is 63 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.