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 502 km round trip from Sokolac - roughly 9 h 05 in the saddle. On the way it passes Mramorje, Bečani and back through Mramorje. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,000 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It crosses from Bosnia & Herzegovina into Serbia - carry ID and check the toll rules. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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 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.
Read the complete Mramorje write-up.
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Mramorje comes up about 142 km into the recorded legs. Next is Bečani.
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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about 251 km into the recorded legs you reach Bečani. Next is back through Mramorje.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Mramorje write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Mramorje, late in the day. Next is Borak in the village of Burati.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Borak in the village of Burati write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Borak in the village of Burati. That is the ride.
Borak in the village of Burati → Mramorje is 142 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Mramorje → Bečani is 109 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Bečani → back through Mramorje is 100 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Mramorje → Borak in the village of Burati is 151 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.