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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From Žabljak it runs 422 km to Žabljak; allow about 9 h 26 of riding. It goes by way of Grebnice, Kalufi in Krekovi and back through Grebnice. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,550 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It crosses from Montenegro into Bosnia & Herzegovina - carry ID and check the toll rules. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
Near Žabljak, on the high plateau below Durmitor, a group of medieval tombstones lies in a meadow at Bare Žugića. These are stećci, massive carved stones that mark graves from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries, found across Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia and Montenegro. Some are simple slabs, others shaped like houses or sarcophagi, decorated with carvings of spirals, crosses, vines, hunting scenes, dancers and figures with raised hands. Their makers belonged to various Christian communities of the medieval Balkans, and their meaning is still debated. In 2016 UNESCO listed a selection of the most important sites, including Bare Žugića, as the Stećci Medieval Tombstone Graveyards. Seeing these stones in a high meadow, surrounded by mountains, is quietly moving.
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Bare Žugića is where the day begins. Next is Grebnice.
Grebnice, a name that simply means something like grave-stones, is a field of stećci near Bileća in eastern Herzegovina. These are the massive carved tombstones of medieval Bosnia and its neighbours, cut from local limestone between roughly the twelfth and sixteenth centuries, shaped like chests, slabs or little houses with gabled roofs, and sometimes covered with spirals, rosettes, swords, shields and dancing figures. UNESCO listed a selection of the most important sites together in 2016, and the necropolis here is one of the eastern Herzegovinian groups. Standing among them on a still afternoon, with the grass grown up around the stones, is a strangely moving experience.
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Grebnice comes up about 129 km into the recorded legs. Next is Kalufi in Krekovi.
The Nevesinjsko polje is a broad, flat-floored basin high in the karst of eastern Herzegovina, ringed by bare limestone hills, and at Krekovi, near its edge, a group of stećci known as Kalufi stands in the grass. These medieval tombstones, carved between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries, belong to the transnational World Heritage Site inscribed in 2016. At Krekovi you find slabs, chests and gabled forms, some decorated with crosses, rosettes and borders, set in rows facing roughly east to west in the old tradition.
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about 210 km into the recorded legs you reach Kalufi in Krekovi. Next is back through Grebnice.
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Read the complete Grebnice write-up.
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back through Grebnice, late in the day. Next is Bare Žugića.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Bare Žugića write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Bare Žugića. That is the ride.
Bare Žugića → Grebnice is 129 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Grebnice → Kalufi in Krekovi is 81 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Kalufi in Krekovi → back through Grebnice is 82 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Grebnice → Bare Žugića is 130 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.