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Maybe my best and most beautiful slovakian biketour was finished in the last day before arriving at Budapest in 1998 because of a fault in manufacture in the tyre.

Crossing the Carpathians by bike 1999

Gyorgyigabor
2004-02-05 19:58:20

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to my teammates. At last three of them joined me. We could leave our bikes without any fear at a wooden house next to the Podlesok camp, after we had spoken about it with the owners of the house. We went to between the high rockwalls of the Hernad canyon. The path went onto the trellised „roasting dishes”, which were fixed to the rocks. Chains also helped us to go safely. After about an hour walk we splitted up, because I realized that the guys needed time to look around and to enjoy the land, the rocks, the stream, which they saw for the first time. Contrasted with them I wanted to visit an other canyon so I hurried away. It was a pleasure to visit the frightening Tomasovsky viewpoint. There is always a people who sit onto the edge of the rock and leave his / her leg above the 200m deepness. Backwards I chose the romantic Kysel canyon. After finishing our tour it was good to cycle again. The excursion between the one and one hour cycling gave us variety.

7th day, Nová Lesná - Rabka (PL): After four Tatra-tour I knew that I wouldn’t be satisfied with visiting only Zakopane; our goal was to cycle to Krakkow and than back to Hungary. I didn’t know that a guy from the team punctured, so when I cycled back, I found nobody. I had to continue my tour alone, but I hoped we would meet until the evening. In Zdiar during eating I was just thinking that I would have to get used to cycling alone, when my teammates apperared on the road. At the wooden house in the forest at the top of the first climb of Poland we turned not left as in 1997 or 1995, but turned right to north, to the Glodowka meadow. In my fifth Tatra-tour, with about 7-8 years of experiences in cycling I could discuss with the guys that if they don’t join me I could visit the famous wooden church of Debno 15 kms from there. After leaving the mountains, I was cycling at the feet of the Tatra, between hills. Debno was a little village, where I could see people going to phone to the ...