CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Dovhe it runs 525 km to Dovhe; allow about 13 h 06 of riding. The stops in between: Synevyr - Vilshany, Svydovets, Maramarosh and back through Svydovets. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,000 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
In Transcarpathia, the westernmost corner of Ukraine, the Carpathians drop down to a plain that feels more Central European than Eastern. The region was part of Hungary for a thousand years, then Czechoslovakia, then briefly independent, then the Soviet Union and finally Ukraine, and the villages carry a mix of languages, churches and foods. Zacharovanyi Krai, the Enchanted Land, is the name of a nature park in the hills of this region, with beech forests, meadows, mineral springs and small rivers.
Read the complete Zacharovanyi Krai - Velykyi Dil write-up.
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Zacharovanyi Krai - Velykyi Dil 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.
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Synevyr - Vilshany comes up 49 km in. Next is Svydovets.
The Svydovets is a long, high ridge in the Ukrainian Carpathians, rising above the upper Tisza valley near the town of Rakhiv in Zakarpattia. Its southern and northern slopes hold some of the wildest primeval beech forest left in Europe, protected as part of the Carpathian Biosphere Reserve and included in the UNESCO site of Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe. Above the trees lie broad alpine meadows, the polonyna, where Hutsul shepherds traditionally drove their flocks each summer, with glacial lakes tucked below the ridge.
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98 km in you reach Svydovets. Next is Maramarosh.
On the map, the line between Romania and Ukraine runs along the Tisza river here, and on either side of it the Carpathians rise in forested ridges. Maramarosh is the old name for the whole region, Maramureș to Romanians, and it is also the name of a protected forest within the Carpathian Biosphere Reserve on the Ukrainian side, one component of the World Heritage inscription for ancient and primeval beech forests of the Carpathians and other regions of Europe. These are forests where beech trees have grown undisturbed since the last ice age, with giants several hundred years old and a richness of life that has vanished from most of Europe.
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Maramarosh, about halfway. Next is back through Svydovets.
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Read the complete Svydovets write-up.
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back through Svydovets sits at 197 km, about halfway. Next is back through Synevyr - Vilshany.
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back through Synevyr - Vilshany comes up 246 km in. Next is Zacharovanyi Krai - Velykyi Dil.
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Read the complete Zacharovanyi Krai - Velykyi Dil write-up.
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Zacharovanyi Krai - Velykyi Dil closes the day.
Zacharovanyi Krai - Velykyi Dil → Synevyr - Vilshany is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Synevyr - Vilshany → Svydovets is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Svydovets → Maramarosh is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Maramarosh → back through Svydovets is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Svydovets → back through Synevyr - Vilshany is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Synevyr - Vilshany → Zacharovanyi Krai - Velykyi Dil is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.