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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236 km from Jablanica to Jablanica, about 4 h 51 of riding. The stops in between: Ravanjska vrata, Prašuma Janj and back through Ravanjska vrata. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,250 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
High on a karst plateau in Herzegovina, between the massive mountains of Čvrsnica and Vran, lies Blidinje, a wide upland valley of meadows, limestone outcrops and black pine forests at around twelve hundred metres. At Dugo polje, the long field, a cluster of medieval tombstones stands in the grass, carved with crosses, spirals, rosettes, hunting scenes and human figures. These are stećci, the distinctive gravestones of the medieval Balkans, made between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries, and Dugo polje is one of the most impressive groups, part of the collection of stećci sites listed by UNESCO in 2016 across Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia.
Read the complete Dugo polje at Blidinje write-up.
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Dugo polje at Blidinje is where the day begins. Next is Ravanjska vrata.
The Kupres plateau is one of the high, open places of Bosnia and Herzegovina, more than a thousand metres up, with wide grasslands, cold winters and a sky that seems close enough to touch. Ravanjska vrata, the gates of Ravno, lies in this landscape, between Kupres and Tomislavgrad, and it is known for a group of stećci, the carved medieval tombstones that are found across Bosnia, Herzegovina and the neighbouring countries. UNESCO listed a selection of these necropolises in 2016. The stones are often decorated with spirals, crosses, hunting scenes and figures with raised hands, and their makers remain a subject of debate.
Read the complete Ravanjska vrata write-up.
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Ravanjska vrata comes up about 61 km into the recorded legs. Next is Prašuma Janj.
Prašuma means primeval forest, and Janj is one of the few places in Europe where that word is literally true. In the hills above the Janj river, between Šipovo and Donji Vakuf in central Bosnia, a block of mixed beech, fir and spruce forest has survived without logging, its oldest trees reaching enormous heights and girths. Since 2021 it has been part of the World Heritage site of ancient beech forests of Europe, joining a chain of reserves from the Carpathians to the Pyrenees.
Read the complete Prašuma Janj write-up.
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about 118 km into the recorded legs you reach Prašuma Janj. Next is back through Ravanjska vrata.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Ravanjska vrata write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Ravanjska vrata, late in the day. Next is Dugo polje at Blidinje.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Dugo polje at Blidinje write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Dugo polje at Blidinje. That is the ride.
Dugo polje at Blidinje → Ravanjska vrata is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Ravanjska vrata → Prašuma Janj is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Prašuma Janj → back through Ravanjska vrata is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Ravanjska vrata → Dugo polje at Blidinje is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.