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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A proper escape from Vienna with roads worth waking up for. A 787 km loop that starts and ends near Drassburg, about 10 h 23 of riding. The stops in between: Scenic stretch in Prinzersdorf, near Japons and near Brezová pod Bradlom. The climb of the day is near Otterthal. It tops out at about 850 m. It crosses from Austria into Slovakia - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For 83 km this is Wachau Danube Road, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Next is High point near Otterthal.
You top out here; the road stops climbing. Next is Scenic stretch in Prinzersdorf.
about 206 km into the recorded legs you reach Scenic stretch in Prinzersdorf. Next is Photo stop near Japons.
Japons lies on the high granite plateau of the Waldviertel, the forest quarter of Lower Austria, north-west of Vienna, a land of rolling hills, fields, forests and scattered villages, where the climate is harsher and the pace slower than in the Danube valley below. The village is small and quiet, with a church and farms, and the surrounding landscape is open and airy, with long views over the plateau.
Read the complete Photo stop near Japons write-up.
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Photo stop near Japons, about halfway. Next is Vienna / Eastern Alps return.
Burgenland lies tucked against the Hungarian border, and it is the youngest of Austria's federal states. The region was part of the Kingdom of Hungary until 1921, when it was awarded to Austria after the First World War, and the town of Sopron, just across the line, chose by plebiscite to stay Hungarian. The composer Joseph Haydn served the Esterházy princes at Eisenstadt for decades, and the palace where he worked still stands.