CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 417 km round trip from Zlatibor - roughly 9 h 48 in the saddle. On the way it passes Mramorje, Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge in Višegrad, back through Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge in Višegrad and back through Mramorje. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 850 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It crosses from Serbia into Bosnia & Herzegovina - carry ID and check the toll rules.
Zlatibor is a high, rounded upland in western Serbia, a plateau of meadows and pine forest that has been a holiday place for generations. The name means gold pine, and the old landscapes here were a mix of open pasture and clumps of fir and spruce, with a mild, sunny climate that made it popular with city people looking for fresh air. Today the main village has grown into a resort town, with new hotels, apartments and a long pedestrian centre, but the surrounding hills remain green and open.
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Zlatibor is where the day begins. Next is Mramorje.
Standing stones in Serbia's western hills are not what most visitors expect, but the medieval necropolises called stećci are among the most remarkable monuments in the Balkans. They are big carved tombstones, shaped like chests, slabs or gabled roofs, made between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries across Bosnia, Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia, and decorated with spirals, crescents, hunting scenes and knights on horseback. UNESCO listed a selection of the sites in 2016, and Mramorje, in the municipality of Bajina Bašta, is the Serbian one. The word comes from the old Slavic for standing, and at Mramorje, among the grass and beech trees, the stones lean at slight angles, mossy and weathered.
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Mramorje comes up 25 km in. Next is Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge in Višegrad.
Eleven stone arches cross the Drina at Višegrad, pale against the green water, and the bridge has been doing so since the 1570s. It was commissioned by Mehmed Paša Sokolović, a boy from a nearby village who was taken as a child into Ottoman service and rose to become Grand Vizier, the most powerful man in the empire after the sultan. He had it built by Mimar Sinan, the greatest architect of the Ottoman age, and it remains one of the masterpieces of that era, listed by UNESCO in 2007.
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At least 56 km in you reach Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge in Višegrad. Next is Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge in Višegrad.
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Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge in Višegrad, about halfway. Next is Mramorje.
The high country behind the Drina is Tara, a wide, forested mountain that stretches for kilometres, and it holds one of Europe's best-known tree stories. The Serbian spruce, the omorika, is a tall, narrow conifer that once grew across much of Europe, before the ice ages squeezed it into a tiny range on the Drina's slopes. It survived here, and Tara National Park protects it, along with a rich forest of fir and beech, brown bears, chamois and wolves. A second Mramorje stands in this landscape, a village scatter of stećci near the settlement of Musići, a medieval graveyard with large carved stones leaning in the grass and half buried by moss.
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Mramorje sits at 102 km, about halfway. Next is back through Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge in Višegrad.
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back through Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge in Višegrad comes up 127 km in.
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152 km in you reach back through Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge in Višegrad. Next is back through Mramorje.
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back through Mramorje, late in the day. Next is Zlatibor.
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The route ends here after 417 km.
Zlatibor → Mramorje is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Mramorje → Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge in Višegrad is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge in Višegrad → Mramorje is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Mramorje → back through Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge in Višegrad is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge in Višegrad → back through Mramorje is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Mramorje → Zlatibor is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.