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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344 km from Šekovići to Šekovići, about 7 h 58 of riding. It goes by way of Olovci, Mramor in Musići, Luburića polje and Borak in the village of Burati. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,050 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
The hills above the Drinjača river in north-eastern Bosnia are covered with beech and oak, and in clearings on the slopes stand the stećci, large limestone tombstones, some shaped like chests and some like gabled roofs, carved with crescent moons, spirals, hands, swords and hunting scenes. Bečani is one of the places where they are found, on the outskirts of the little town of Šekovići, three kilometres away, in the eastern part of the country that is now Republika Srpska.
Read the complete Bečani write-up.
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Bečani is where the day begins. Next is Olovci.
In a meadow above the Drinjača valley, a short way from the small town of Kladanj, a group of carved limestone blocks lies scattered among the grass and young trees. These are stećci, the medieval tombstones of Bosnia and the surrounding lands, and Olovci is one of the necropolises listed together by UNESCO as a single heritage site spread across four countries. The stones date roughly from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries. Some are plain slabs or chests, others shaped like little houses with pitched roofs, and the best of them carry reliefs: spirals, crescent moons, vines, hunting scenes, a figure with a raised hand. Nobody is entirely sure who was buried under them, and the arguments about whether they belonged to Catholics, Orthodox or the Bosnian church have run for a century.
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Olovci comes up about 50 km into the recorded legs. Next is Mramor in Musići.
In a meadow near the village of Musići, in the hills around Olovo in central Bosnia, stands a group of stećci, the great carved medieval tombstones that are unique to this part of the Balkans. They date roughly from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries, and the people who raised them were Bosnian Christians, Catholics and Orthodox alike. The Musići necropolis is part of the group of stećci cemeteries inscribed by UNESCO in 2016, and its stones are among the finest: big slabs and house-shaped blocks decorated with spirals, crosses, vines, hunting scenes and strange, almost abstract human figures.
Read the complete Mramor in Musići write-up.
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about 92 km into the recorded legs you reach Mramor in Musići. 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 113 km, about halfway. Next is back through Luburića polje.
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Read the complete Luburića polje write-up.
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back through Luburića polje comes up about 198 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Mramor in Musići.
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Read the complete Mramor in Musići write-up.
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about 251 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Mramor in Musići. Next is back through Olovci.
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Read the complete Olovci write-up.
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back through Olovci, late in the day. Next is Bečani.
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Read the complete Bečani write-up.
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The route ends here after 344 km.
Bečani → Olovci is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Olovci → Mramor in Musići is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Mramor in Musići → Luburića polje is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Luburića polje → Borak in the village of Burati is 26 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 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Luburića polje → back through Mramor in Musići is 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Mramor in Musići → back through Olovci is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Olovci → Bečani is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.