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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436 km from Gračanica to Gračanica, about 8 h 50 of riding. On the way it passes Old Bridge Area of the Old City of Mostar, Vjetrenica Cave and back through Old Bridge Area of the Old City of Mostar. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,250 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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 Old Bridge Area of the Old City of Mostar.
The Old Bridge in Mostar is a single stone arch, slender and impossibly high, leaping across the emerald-green Neretva between two fortified towers. The Ottomans built it in the 1560s, designed by an architect named Mimar Hayruddin, and for more than four centuries it stood as a symbol of the city. On 9 November 1993, during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, it was shelled and collapsed into the river. It was rebuilt with the original techniques and stone recovered from the riverbed and reopened in 2004, and the following year UNESCO listed the Old Bridge Area as a symbol of reconciliation and cultural coexistence.
Read the complete Old Bridge Area of the Old City of Mostar write-up.
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Old Bridge Area of the Old City of Mostar comes up about 140 km into the recorded legs. Next is Vjetrenica Cave.
The karst country inland from Dubrovnik is a landscape of grey limestone hills, stony fields and long, flat-bottomed valleys called poljes, which flood in winter and dry out in summer. Popovo Polje, on the Bosnian side of the border, is one of the largest, and at its edge, near the village of Zavala, lies Vjetrenica, the most famous cave in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Its name means wind cave, from the strong current of air that blows out of its entrance, cool in summer and noticeable from a distance.
Read the complete Vjetrenica Cave write-up.
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about 218 km into the recorded legs you reach Vjetrenica Cave. Next is back through Old Bridge Area of the Old City of Mostar.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Old Bridge Area of the Old City of Mostar write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Old Bridge Area of the Old City of Mostar, 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 → Old Bridge Area of the Old City of Mostar is 140 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Old Bridge Area of the Old City of Mostar → Vjetrenica Cave is 78 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Vjetrenica Cave → back through Old Bridge Area of the Old City of Mostar is 78 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Old Bridge Area of the Old City of Mostar → Dolovi in the village of Umoljani is 139 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.