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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)
Gyorgyigabor2004-02-05 20:01:12
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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. Last year, in 1997 we didn’t visit Krakkow, East-Slovakia, and cancelled the raft-tour on the Dunajec river and cycling up to the Morskie Oko lake, but enjoyed the beauty of the Vratna valley, Spisské fortress and I get acquainted with the steep climb at Krasnahorka and I was on the peak of the Rysy. After speaking with the two other guys I defined the route in that way that we would be able to visit more and more nice areas, towns. Contrasted with the direction of our tours before I planned to cycle Slovakia around in the opposite direction: at first crossing the Low Tatra, then - after visiting Krakkow - to arrive at the Tatra on its east side. After some days I liked to cycle to East-Slovakia where we could to visit Bardejov, Kosice and geyser of Herlany. It seemed to be a tradition-breaking tour with full of unknown places.
For the first day to our meeting point at the Bükk-plateau I chose a route where I hadn’t cycle for long. To Gyöngyös I didn’t have to climb any serious climbs, but from there I ascended up to Mátraháza, where from I could roll down 20 km long to Recsk. I needed some efforts to climb the ascents between Sirok and Eger, so it was good to rest in the center of Eger for an hour. The last ascent of the day went up to the ca. 700m high Bükk plateau. At the end of the day - after about 200 km - I could meet with the two friends of mine and an other guy in Répáshuta. It was a good feeling to meet and to be ready for a tour with them in Slovakia.
We started cycling in cloudy and a little bit rainy weather, but when we made a short stop in front of the Palace Hotel in Lillafüred – from where we could see the lake too - we could already see the light sunshine. This time we continued our tour not towards the hills, mountains of Aggtelek and the Cserehát, but we turned towards a serious
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