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 172 km round trip from Gračanica - roughly 3 h 48 in the saddle. The stops in between: Gvozno, Čengića Bara and back through Gvozno. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,300 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
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 is where the day begins. 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.
Read the complete Gvozno write-up.
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Gvozno comes up about 68 km into the recorded legs. Next is Čengića Bara.
Čengića Bara is a high pasture on the plateau around Kalinovik, in the mountainous heart of eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina, and it is one of the most remote of the stećci sites listed by UNESCO in 2016. A group of medieval tombstones stands in the open grassland, carved with simple decorations, weathered by centuries of wind, snow and sun. Few visitors make it here, and that is part of the appeal. The stones seem to belong to the landscape itself, as much as the rocks and the grass around them.
Read the complete Čengića Bara write-up.
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about 86 km into the recorded legs you reach Čengića Bara. Next is back through Gvozno.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Gvozno write-up.
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back through Gvozno, late in the day. Next is Dolovi in the village of Umoljani.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Dolovi in the village of Umoljani write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Dolovi in the village of Umoljani. That is the ride.
Dolovi in the village of Umoljani → Gvozno is 68 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Gvozno → Čengića Bara is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Čengića Bara → back through Gvozno is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Gvozno → Dolovi in the village of Umoljani is 68 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.