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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From Žabljak it runs 298 km to Žabljak; allow about 7 h 12 of riding. On the way it passes Grčko groblje, Čengića Bara and back through Grčko groblje. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,550 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It crosses from Montenegro into Bosnia & Herzegovina - carry ID and check the toll rules. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 76 km this is Montenegro Durmitor Ring, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
High in the mountains of northern Montenegro, in meadows below the peaks of Durmitor, stand some of the strangest gravestones in Europe. Grcko groblje, the Greek cemetery, is a field of stecci, huge carved limestone blocks that medieval communities across Bosnia, Herzegovina, Montenegro and Serbia raised over their dead between roughly the twelfth and sixteenth centuries. Some are shaped like coffins, some like gabled roofs, some are slabs. They carry carvings of crescents and suns, spirals, vines, hunting scenes, warriors on horseback and rows of people dancing hand in hand in the old kolo. This site is one of several in the region that were listed together by UNESCO in 2016.
Read the complete Grčko groblje write-up.
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Grčko groblje is where the day begins. Next is Grčko groblje.
Greek cemetery is what the name means, and you will find the same name attached to old graveyards across the mountains of Bosnia and Montenegro. For generations, local people attributed the mysterious carved tombstones of the medieval period to the Greeks, a vague term for ancient or foreign peoples, because nobody remembered who had made them. In fact, these stećci were carved by the medieval communities of the region between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries, and the groups that bear the name Grčko groblje are among the many sites included in the UNESCO listing.
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Grčko groblje comes up about 76 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.
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about 149 km into the recorded legs you reach Čengića Bara. Next is back through Grčko groblje.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Grčko groblje write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Grčko groblje, late in the day.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Grčko groblje write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Grčko groblje. That is the ride.
Grčko groblje → Grčko groblje is 76 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Grčko groblje → Čengića Bara is 73 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Čengića Bara → back through Grčko groblje is 73 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Grčko groblje → Grčko groblje is 76 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.