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 362 km round trip from Sokolac - roughly 8 h 58 in the saddle. On the way it passes Kučarin in Hrančići, Gvozno, Dolovi in the village of Umoljani and back through Gvozno. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,250 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
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 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.
Read the complete Kučarin in Hrančići write-up.
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Kučarin in Hrančići comes up about 34 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 110 km into the recorded legs you reach Gvozno. Next is Dolovi in the village of Umoljani.
Umoljani clings to the edge of the Bjelašnica massif above the Rakitnica canyon, an hour or so southwest of Sarajevo by road, and it is one of those mountain villages that feel a world away from the cities below. Stone houses with steep roofs, a small mosque and a scattering of shepherds' huts sit on a high green plateau, and nearby, at a spot known as Dolovi, a group of medieval tombstones called stećci lies in the grass. These carved limestone monuments, made between roughly the twelfth and sixteenth centuries, are found across Bosnia and neighbouring countries and were inscribed on the UNESCO list in 2016. Their reliefs of hunters, dancers, spirals and crescent moons are a fascinating window onto a culture that left few written records.
Read the complete Dolovi in the village of Umoljani write-up.
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Dolovi in the village of Umoljani, about halfway. Next is back through Gvozno.
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Read the complete Gvozno write-up.
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back through Gvozno sits at 124 km, about halfway. Next is back through Kučarin in Hrančići.
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Read the complete Kučarin in Hrančići write-up.
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back through Kučarin in Hrančići comes up about 325 km into the recorded legs. 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.
Borak in the village of Burati closes the day.
Borak in the village of Burati → Kučarin in Hrančići is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Kučarin in Hrančići → Gvozno is 76 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Gvozno → Dolovi in the village of Umoljani is 68 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Dolovi in the village of Umoljani → back through Gvozno is 73 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Gvozno → back through Kučarin in Hrančići is 74 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Kučarin in Hrančići → Borak in the village of Burati is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.