Why this ride
Sustained elevation change, linked bends and open summit views. It also links naturally to Dinaric Alps cultural landscape.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Prozor-Rama to Livno
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 128 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 2 h 30
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
The recorded total and the leg detail need reconciliation. Inspect the leg notes before using this record for timing or navigation. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Access context
Verify surface, fuel and current local travel advice. Specific flag: surface review.
Seasonal context
May-Oct
Scenic road chapters
Bosnia Mostar to Sarajevo Mountain Route
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For 22 km this is Bosnia Mostar to Sarajevo Mountain Route, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Chapter facts
- Length
- 22 km
- Named road
- Bosnia Mostar to Sarajevo Mountain Route
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Jablanica
Jablanica lies on the Neretva, a river of an astonishing blue-green colour, in a narrow canyon between the mountains of Herzegovina, and it is one of the most memorable stops on the road between Mostar and Sarajevo. The town of about six thousand people sits beside a long reservoir, formed by a dam in the 1950s, and its main road, the M17, runs along the water, with cliffs and tunnels on one side and the lake on the other.
Read the complete Jablanica write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Jablanica sits at 0 km, early in the day. Next is Prozor.
2. Prozor
Prozor, often written Prozor-Rama, is the old centre of the Rama valley, a green pocket of northern Herzegovina that opens onto one of the most striking pieces of water in the country. The town stands near the head of Ramsko Jezero, a reservoir created in the 1960s when the Rama river was dammed. Below the dam wall the valley has lost its old villages, and as you ride along the shore you pass a monastery that stands on a little island in the lake, Šćit, the Franciscan house that is the spiritual heart of the Rama region.
Read the complete Prozor write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Prozor comes up 28 km in. Next is Kupres.
3. Kupres
Kupres is one of those places where you notice the sky first. The town sits on a very high karst plain in western Bosnia, among the highest open farmland in the country, at roughly 1,100 metres. The plain is broad and almost treeless, ringed by gently rounded hills, and the wind moves across it unhindered. Locals say the winters are fierce, and the snow can lie for months. In summer the same plain is a bright carpet of grass and wildflowers, with cattle and sheep grazing and hay stacked in small cones.
Read the complete Kupres write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
55 km in you reach Kupres. Next is Livno.
4. Livno
Livno sits on the edge of a huge karst plain, the Livanjsko polje, the largest of its kind in the Dinaric mountains, ringed by bare limestone ridges. In winter the plain floods and becomes a shallow lake, in spring it turns green, and in summer it is a patchwork of hay meadows with the dark mass of Cincar mountain rising behind. The town is about twelve thousand people and has an unhurried, provincial air, with a small old quarter, a mosque and Catholic and Orthodox churches standing within a short walk of each other.
Read the complete Livno write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Livno, late in the day.