CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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468 km from Sarajevo to Sarajevo, about 10 h 38 of riding. On the way it passes Gvozno, Kučarin in Hrančići, Luburića polje and Borak in the village of Burati. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,250 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
Sarajevo lies in a narrow valley along the Miljacka river, with steep green hills on all sides, and the old town at its heart is a bazaar quarter called Baščaršija, where copper-workers still hammer out coffee sets and the smell of grilled ćevapi drifts down every lane. The city has about seven hundred thousand people in its wider area, and its position between mountains means the air can be very still, with smoke in winter and the call to prayer echoing from the hills.
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Sarajevo is where the day begins. Next is Gvozno.
Out on the high karst plateau around Kalinovik, south of Sarajevo, the land opens into wide pastures and rocky hills at well over a thousand metres, ringed by the mountains of Treskavica, Lelija and Zelengora. Here and there, half-hidden in the grass, lie stećci, the carved medieval tombstones that are unique to this corner of the Balkans. The necropolis at Gvozno is one of the sites included in the UNESCO listing of stećci, which spans Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia.
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Gvozno comes up 37 km in. Next is Kučarin in Hrančići.
Grey limestone slabs lie in the grass at Hrančići like a congregation that sat down six hundred years ago and never got up. These are stećci, the carved medieval tombstones that are found across Bosnia and Herzegovina and its neighbours, and the group at Kučarin is one of the sites included in the UNESCO listing of stećci graveyards in 2016. Some are plain chests, some are gabled like little houses, and a few carry reliefs of spirals, vines, shields or figures with raised hands that still nobody fully agrees how to read.
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73 km in you reach Kučarin in Hrančići. Next is Luburića polje.
The Romanija plateau east of Sarajevo is a strange and beautiful upland: rolling meadows and dark pine forests at around a thousand metres, under a sky that seems bigger than it should. Luburića polje, a field near the town of Sokolac, holds one of the necropolises of stećci, the medieval tombstones of the Balkans listed by UNESCO, and the surrounding countryside has been a place of burial for thousands of years.
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Luburića polje, about halfway. Next is Borak in the village of Burati.
Scattered across the meadows and forest edges of Bosnia and Herzegovina are thousands of carved medieval tombstones called stećci, great blocks of limestone shaped like chests, slabs or little gabled houses, some plain and some carved with spirals, vines, crescent moons, hunting scenes, dancers and raised hands. They date mostly from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries, and together with sites in Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia they were inscribed on the UNESCO list in 2016 as the Stećci Medieval Tombstone Graveyards. Borak, near the village of Burati in the hills above Rogatica, is one of these graveyards, a cluster of stones lying among the grass where they have stood for six hundred years or more.
Read the complete Borak in the village of Burati write-up.
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Borak in the village of Burati sits at 146 km, about halfway. Next is back through Luburića polje.
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back through Luburića polje comes up 183 km in. Next is back through Kučarin in Hrančići.
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219 km in you reach back through Kučarin in Hrančići. Next is back through Gvozno.
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back through Gvozno, late in the day. Next is Sarajevo.
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The route ends here after 468 km.
Sarajevo → Gvozno is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Gvozno → Kučarin in Hrančići is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Kučarin in Hrančići → Luburića polje is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Luburića polje → Borak in the village of Burati is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Borak in the village of Burati → back through Luburića polje is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Luburića polje → back through Kučarin in Hrančići is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Kučarin in Hrančići → back through Gvozno is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Gvozno → Sarajevo is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.