CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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A 534 km round trip from Mejdan - Obilićevo - roughly 11 h 50 in the saddle. The stops in between: Prašuma Janj, Maculje, Ravanjska vrata and back through Maculje. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,250 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
Banja Luka is the largest city in the northern half of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the capital of the Republika Srpska entity, set on the Vrbas River where the mountains of central Bosnia open onto the Pannonian plain. It is a spacious, leafy place with wide boulevards, plane trees and a riverfront that is busy with walkers, anglers and café-goers, and it has long had the reputation of being one of the greenest cities in the Balkans.
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Banja Luka is where the day begins. Next is Prašuma Janj.
Prašuma means primeval forest, and Janj is one of the few places in Europe where that word is literally true. In the hills above the Janj river, between Šipovo and Donji Vakuf in central Bosnia, a block of mixed beech, fir and spruce forest has survived without logging, its oldest trees reaching enormous heights and girths. Since 2021 it has been part of the World Heritage site of ancient beech forests of Europe, joining a chain of reserves from the Carpathians to the Pyrenees.
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Prašuma Janj comes up about 104 km into the recorded legs. Next is Maculje.
Central Bosnia is a country of green hills folded one behind another, and Maculje sits in the middle of it, a few kilometres from Novi Travnik in the Lašva valley. If you have not heard of it, you are in good company, because what draws people here is quiet and very old. Maculje is a necropolis of stećci, the massive carved limestone tombstones that medieval Bosnians, Croatians and Serbs raised between roughly the twelfth and the sixteenth centuries. They stand in the grass in rows, slabs shaped like chests and gabled roofs, with weathered carvings of crescent moons, spirals, hunters and dancers.
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about 198 km into the recorded legs you reach Maculje. Next is Ravanjska vrata.
The Kupres plateau is one of the high, open places of Bosnia and Herzegovina, more than a thousand metres up, with wide grasslands, cold winters and a sky that seems close enough to touch. Ravanjska vrata, the gates of Ravno, lies in this landscape, between Kupres and Tomislavgrad, and it is known for a group of stećci, the carved medieval tombstones that are found across Bosnia, Herzegovina and the neighbouring countries. UNESCO listed a selection of these necropolises in 2016. The stones are often decorated with spirals, crosses, hunting scenes and figures with raised hands, and their makers remain a subject of debate.
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Ravanjska vrata, about halfway. Next is back through Maculje.
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Read the complete Maculje write-up.
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back through Maculje sits at 249 km, about halfway. Next is back through Prašuma Janj.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Prašuma Janj write-up.
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back through Prašuma Janj comes up about 429 km into the recorded legs. Next is Banja Luka.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Banja Luka write-up.
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Banja Luka closes the day.
Banja Luka → Prašuma Janj is 104 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Prašuma Janj → Maculje is 94 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Maculje → Ravanjska vrata is 67 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Ravanjska vrata → back through Maculje is 70 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Maculje → back through Prašuma Janj is 94 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Prašuma Janj → Banja Luka is 104 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.