CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 466 km round trip from Žabljak - roughly 11 h 37 in the saddle. The stops in between: Grčko groblje, Durmitor National Park, Mramor in Vrbica and back through Durmitor National Park. 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.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For 49 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.
Read the complete Grčko groblje write-up.
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Grčko groblje comes up 41 km in. Next is Durmitor National Park.
Durmitor is the kind of mountain range that makes you pull over every few minutes. In the north of Montenegro, a limestone massif rises above a high plateau around Žabljak, with jagged peaks, glacial lakes and deep canyons carved by the Tara, Piva and Sušica rivers. The national park was inscribed on the UNESCO list in 1980, and it includes the Tara canyon, one of the deepest gorges in Europe. Glaciers shaped the range, leaving cirques and lakes scattered across the high ground, of which the Black Lake near Žabljak is the best known.
Read the complete Durmitor National Park write-up.
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83 km in you reach Durmitor National Park. Next is Mramor in Vrbica.
The Drina is a river that runs through every story in this part of the Balkans, and Foča sits on one of its finest stretches. The town, with about fourteen thousand people, lies where the Drina meets the Ćehotina, among steep green mountains, and the old Aladža mosque, a painted sixteenth-century building, was one of the most beautiful Ottoman monuments in the region before it was destroyed in the war of the 1990s and then rebuilt. Foča carries that history quietly, and it is a place where you should listen more than talk.
Read the complete Mramor in Vrbica write-up.
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Mramor in Vrbica, about halfway. Next is back through Durmitor National Park.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Durmitor National Park write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Durmitor National Park sits at 165 km, about halfway. 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 comes up 207 km in.
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.
Grčko groblje closes the day.
Grčko groblje → Grčko groblje is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Grčko groblje → Durmitor National Park is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Durmitor National Park → Mramor in Vrbica is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Mramor in Vrbica → back through Durmitor National Park is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Durmitor National Park → back through Grčko groblje is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Grčko groblje → Grčko groblje is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.