I don't like sharing pre-made routes. Driving someone's route in the same way in the 100%, it's kind of humiliating from the touristic and cognitive point. Especially if it is also described on the blog. You know it turn by turn, you have seen the photos from it, you know what to expect and you are waiting for the next moments that were described as great. You feel as if you are living someone else's life. It is different if you base on someone else's route and make modifications. This entry is unique, it is about the village of Dolní Morava. Why? 

We knew that we would visit these areas from the first time we entered the Tri-Sea Wierch. It was a magical time when the borders were closed to us and we looked longingly at a new, better, Czech world from the lookout tower at 1145m above sea level, the Czechs call it Klepáč (from the sound of tapping, for real). For those interested in geography, I recommend that you look for information about what is called the Great European Watershed, in short: on the Tri-Sea, as the name suggests, the catchments of three different seas converge ... boooooring !. The entry is about what you can see from the top on the Czech side. It looks like:

You can get to Dolna Morava by asphalt from Boboszów (not necessarily), by gravel from Jodłów (I highly recommend) and by asphalt from the border at Nowa Morawa (I also highly recommend it). In this way, you will extend the loop I have given you quite significantly, as you have to go around Śnieżnik. But worth.

I am sad to say that it is one of the best loops in the area in the category of piece per kilometer. Why?

Now, passing the loop I have given is like getting the full essence of the Czech Republic. The version of the tour that I am giving here is in my opinion a creme de la creme Czech. It has everything that should be and is classic for this country. Sure, there are a hundred places much nicer and someone will say that it's like visiting the Miniature Park instead of touring Europe. She's probably right, but it doesn't matter. This loop is very good, period. And if someone wants even better, let him start and end it in Poland based on the entry about Kłodzko Valley.

There are two ideas for a weekend in Dolni Morava:

  • You ride a loop developed with random asphalts in the area (all worth visiting, especially towards Orlicky), and you send your family to nearby attractions. In the evening, you all enter the Three Seaside.
  • You ride the minimum loop, hooking up to attractions, and spend the next day on an impressive cross-country walk through the Tri-Sea Wierch and Śnieżnik (starting just from Dolni Morava).

Here I am making an exception and they provide a proven route recipe. In fact, not so that you can read what you will pass before you pass it, but for those who are either not easy to convince or just don't plan on going here. And I know, making an entry about the ~ 50km route is a bit embarrassing, but we also have a downhill ride. Besides - it's worth it.

and it goes like this:

The adventure begins with a classic Czech forest driveway. You are driving on asphalt and you are wondering where the asphalt comes from, since it ends nowhere, turning into a gravel road. A skilled eye will notice the road to which we are heading from behind, up there. How it's working? I do not know

Over time, you begin to understand that the driveway is worth it. That someone rewards you for the dozen or so kilometers of continuous climbing to 1200m above sea level

And then it just gets better, better and better. The road goes between trees, above trees, under trees, gravel, with a pleasant exposure. On the way, you pass Czechs, mainly on bicycles, but we all know that this whole episode was created for a wheelchair. Kołobieżka is a Czech state of mind and of course you can rent it on site.

That's it, I'm not lying. Weather is not a photo shoot, but take my word for it. It is strong. Broken trees give birth to forgotten memories of the Slovak Tatry Tour - a similar landscape, only a larger exhibition.

I know a lot of pictures of trees, but that's how it is. If you don't like trees, you won't like it.

And so you can cultivate both ways along this path, until you see it. A tower you think about - Czechs. You can see it from a distance: the 55-meter long stezka v oblacich, that is, a path in the clouds. And those singles that are just being built, which can be seen so well from above ... You have to go there. You can today, you can on the day when you will try sledges..

And of course you eat Langosz with garlic from a booth described as "Brambory". Necessarily. He will be remembered for the rest of the ride with each breath. I especially recommend the langosz before climbing the tower for those who are afraid of heights or before going down the sledge to everyone else. Mamutí horská dráha is the second largest slide of this type in Europe - 3 km of descent, 364 m of elevation, 25 turns.

And then the descent begins - classic, Czech. At the beginning, you don't know if it happened to teleport you to the Karkonosze Mountains, because the views match, and then you are running along medium-quality asphalt on considerable slopes just to ...

Appear in a completely different world. The world of beautiful houses (like you know from the Orlické Mountains) and perfect asphalt. The downhill ride goes on forever and it exceeds that nice feeling when the downhill ride is cool, and you reach the moment when you realize that you probably have to go up again, because somehow too far… like this sentence, it doesn't end.

Because we are talking about a 10.5 km downhill ride with an average of 6.5% on which of course you will meet Czech families going both ways. Riders may be too much to say, because most children are already pushing their bikes upwards somewhere from the middle, but it seems that in Czachach it is perceived as "family bike ride ".

At the junction with the main road, there is a pub by the Morava River. In this knap you do the most obligatory thing in the Czech Republic. You eat smažený sýr and of course you try to ask for it by saying these words, because you will definitely pronounce them wrong. As an addition to hranolka / bramborka and cucumber. This is the best thing in the Czech Republic right next to Krecik.

The ascent to Złoty Potok begins. As the name suggests, it's a good place to pee in a ditch by the road. A surprise appears on the horizon, and you know well that asphalt leads to it. In the Czech Republic, asphalt leads to everything. This is an observation tower about a mysteryanything called Val. You will see everything important from it, from the surrounding hills with Pradziadem at the top, to the Path in the Clouds and a thousand roads that remain uninterrupted. You suffer that life is so short and time so little.

You start to turn around knowing how many things you are missing in the area. Along the way, you come across bunkers. The Czechs seem to have quite easy-going memories of the war. Along the way, you stop by Kraliky and see the classic Czech old town of a small town.

Then it's classic. A bit flat with fields, cows, grain balls and nice houses. Finally, to top it all off, the driveway from the heavy-Czech. Maybe not the Giant Mountains, but one that gives an idea of what this sick nation is asphalting. Apparently it's only 3km with an average of 8%, which is 2x not enough for the Czechs, but the exit from it usually exceeds a dozen. I greet those without charts. I have the impression that the steeper in the Czech Republic, the narrower and more twisted the road. Peace to your souls.

At the end, you will take the Trdelník lift at the ski lifta. It will be one of the most pleasant memories of your trip. There are no photos, because on the first day we ate it too quickly, and on the second day we did not make it before closing time and it was the biggest pain of our 3-month stay in the Kłodzko Valley. You can see what it looks like in the post about route to Prague.

And of course, bringing the whole country down to one short loop is very unfair. However, if you want to do it, Dolni Moravka allows it… in my opinion.