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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From Dovhe it runs 201 km to Dovhe; allow about 5 h 29 of riding. On the way it passes 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.
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.
Read the complete Synevyr - Vilshany write-up.
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Synevyr - Vilshany comes up about 82 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 100 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 - Velykyi Dil.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Zacharovanyi Krai - Velykyi Dil write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Zacharovanyi Krai - Velykyi Dil. That is the ride.
Zacharovanyi Krai - Velykyi Dil → Synevyr - Vilshany is 82 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 - Velykyi Dil is 82 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.