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November afternoon *, at 16:07. For about 3 minutes I should be sitting on my bike and heading home from the office, praying that the car on the green arrow at \u015awi\u0119tokrzyski will not kill me. There are days, however, that I don't want to leave the office. I turn on Google Street View and throw a yellow guy on the map hoping for interesting effects. That day I came across something called: Vyhl\u00eddka M\u00e1j<\/a>. Such a Horseshoe Bend, only Czech. Similar to Pavlovska Strana in Montenegro<\/a>but better. A quick glance on Instagram<\/a> And yes: it's probably one of those places where you stand in a queue to take a photo identical to everyone else. I marked myself with an asterisk and it hung on my maps for months.

* I don't remember which year.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Instagram images and #vyhlidkamaj<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Last year, there will be a flood of online articles about the impact of social media on American landscape parks. A great example was the famous Horseshoe Bend, about which I wrote in the entry about our American roadtripping: "American Holiday Final: West USA in 18 Days"<\/a>. The texts boiled down to the fact that geotagging photos attracts masses of people to places that were not ready for it. You see a great photo on Instagram, you think: I want the same. Located near Horseshoe, the famous Antelope Canyon, went a step further. There, the guide took your phone and took a perfectly cropped picture, together with the selection of a filter appropriate for the given conditions. You come by car, take a photo, throw it on insta, likes fly, come back, day passed. Is it good or bad - don't judge me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Visit to Hong Kong<\/a> However, she taught us that most instagram photos have little in common with reality (or at least with its colors). It is different to take these specific points as the destination of the trip, which will be an attraction in itself. We also decided to do this with a somewhat mysterious point about 40km from Prague, called Vyhlidka Maj. To tell the truth, I have not heard of her before, and looking at the number of questions in my humble socialach<\/em>, this is not a specially recognized point. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Plan.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

We've got to Prague from Warsaw too close and too far away. Too close to organize any vacation there, too far to jump out for the weekend. So taking the opportunity to sit in the K\u0142odzko Valley for 3 months, I got the opportunity. The most important information here is that there is such a thing as Leo Express. A quite comfortable train that runs, among others on the Prague - Wroclaw route, becoming by the way in Bystrzyca K\u0142odzka and many smaller towns. In order not to repeat the routes that we know, we set off from the first station abroad, Lichkova. We also leave the car there in a small parking lot. We decide to get there from Vyhlidka on Friday after work and return from Prague on Sunday evening. For 2 Prague - Lichkov tickets with bikes we pay less than PLN 80.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our plan seemed nice, though unfortunately it did not take into account the weather.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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day I - 139km \/ 632m: https:\/\/www.strava.com\/activities\/3742445635<\/a>
day II - 97km \/ 1419m: https:\/\/www.strava.com\/activities\/3747372323<\/a>
day III - 82km \/ 716m: https:\/\/www.strava.com\/activities\/3751896934<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Adventure.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Day I.<\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As part of the fight against the corporate system, we leave the workplace on Friday after 12 o'clock and at 13 we report under the train station in Lichkov. It's a little over 30 \u00b0 C and some big storms in the forecast. We only have potential accommodation on the route in Pardubice, which is a bit too close, and in Kolin, which is a bit too far. I set the route based on the Open Cycle Map and sticking to the main cycling routes in the Czech Republic. Sometimes it is an ideal, two-lane, separate path, sometimes an off-road section or just a side road. I wouldn't follow our trail from any day - it could be done better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The beginning is beautiful Eagle mountains<\/a>, which have already been described on the blog, and then for a very long time along a track along the tracks, which can also compete with Austrian routes in appearance and quality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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