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After our last bicycletour to the Tatras in 1997, in the following year I started to plan our fourth tour together.

Zig-zagging between the mountains of the Carpathians (1998)

Gyorgyigabor
2004-02-05 20:01:12

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On the temporary stage youngs were playing very pleasant music.
Next day we were pushing the pedals between more and more lower hills towards south-east. We couldn’t avoid an other rain that day either. After the short shower we swam in a bathlake.
Next evening we planned to set up the tents nex to Kosice. We was cycling on a flat road to the feet of the mountain-range, situated north-east from Kosice. On the shady climb to the 520m high pass we hardly met any cars. Because there was warm under the sun, and I felt a little bit tired, I enjoyed to sit in a shady bank and to hear the voices of the forest very much. Using a pen I draw onto the map our route that we had already left. At Herlány we visited the well built geyser, that erupt in every 34 hour, but we didn’t want to wait for half a day. We arrived at Kosice on a sunny and hot main road. The personell of a petrol station were so nice to let us to have a shower. Kosice was such a nice city, that I would rank it among my most favourite towns, to between Banska Bystrica and Bardejov. The center is ordered, clean and is full of flowers. The houses in the promenade are redecorated. In the middle of the main promenade there is a theatre, next to it a fountain in a small park. The water of the fountain erupts for the voices of music. That is an other place where people can spent a lot of time. We liked the center so much, that we decided to go back next morning.

Next day our last task in Slovakia was to spend our last slovakian money. Arriving at Hungary we slept next to Jósvafő, at te shore of a lake at the edge of a forest. We didn’t need our tents, we were sleeping in our sleeping bags, under the sky. Unfortunately our day before the last became my last day, because after my first puncture at Putnok, 1-2 hours later at Szarvaskő I got another. It couldn’t be repaired, I didn’t want to buy a new one, so I arrived at home by train from Eger. Despite the bad end of my tour and the lot of rain that could be my best Tatra-tour.

During the 13 days I cycled 1367,65 kms and climbed 11720 m heightdifference. The costs (the photos are not counted to between it) remainded below 25000 HUF.

To the people who want to visit Slovakia I suggest to visit – besides the Tatra – Bardejov, Kosice, the skanzen of Zuberec and the pass between Zuberec and Liptovsky Matiasovce and the other next to Brezno towards Myto pod Dumbierom. They shouldn’t miss the raft-tour on the Dunajec river too.