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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204 km from Svalyava to Svalyava, about 5 h 28 of riding. It goes by way of Synevyr - Vilshany, Synevyr - Strymba and back through Synevyr - Vilshany. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,000 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
Transcarpathia is the tucked-away corner of Ukraine, on the far side of the mountains from the rest of the country, and it feels like it. The region, known in Ukrainian as Zakarpattia, was part of Hungary for a thousand years, and later of Czechoslovakia, before the Soviet Union took it in 1945, so the villages mix Ukrainian, Hungarian, Romanian and Rusyn traditions. The Zacharovanyi Krai, the Enchanted Land, is a nature park in the hills near the town of Irshava, a country of beech and oak forest, orchards, and folds of low mountains on the edge of the Carpathian foothills.
Read the complete Zacharovanyi Krai - Irshavka write-up.
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Zacharovanyi Krai - Irshavka is where the day begins. Next is Synevyr - Vilshany.
Lake Synevyr is the largest mountain lake in the Ukrainian Carpathians, a dark, deep pool surrounded by spruce forest at about a thousand metres, formed thousands of years ago when a landslide blocked a valley. It is called the sea eye, and on a calm day, it reflects the trees and the sky like a mirror. A sad legend tells of a count's daughter, Syn, who fell in love with a shepherd, Vyr; the count had the young man killed, and the girl wept so much that her tears formed the lake. The lake is the centrepiece of the Synevyr National Park, which protects a large area of old forests in Zakarpattia, and nearby there is a rehabilitation centre for brown bears rescued from captivity, where you can see them in large forest enclosures.
Read the complete Synevyr - Vilshany write-up.
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Synevyr - Vilshany comes up about 84 km into the recorded legs. Next is Synevyr - Strymba.
In the Carpathian mountains of Transcarpathia, in western Ukraine, the forests around Synevyr include some of the last remaining primeval beech forests in Europe, part of the transnational World Heritage Site of the Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe. Strymba is one of the protected forest areas, in the hills near the village of Kolochava, where beech trees grow old and die without human interference, creating a rich habitat for fungi, insects, birds and animals.
Read the complete Synevyr - Strymba write-up.
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about 102 km into the recorded legs you reach Synevyr - Strymba. Next is back through Synevyr - Vilshany.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Synevyr - Vilshany write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Synevyr - Vilshany, late in the day. Next is Zacharovanyi Krai - Irshavka.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Zacharovanyi Krai - Irshavka write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Zacharovanyi Krai - Irshavka. That is the ride.
Zacharovanyi Krai - Irshavka → Synevyr - Vilshany is 84 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Synevyr - Vilshany → Synevyr - Strymba is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Synevyr - Strymba → back through Synevyr - Vilshany is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Synevyr - Vilshany → Zacharovanyi Krai - Irshavka is 84 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.