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 131 km round trip from Kalinovik - roughly 3 h 32 in the saddle. It goes by way of Čengića Bara, Kalufi in Krekovi and back through Čengića Bara. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,300 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
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 is where the day begins. 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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Čengića Bara comes up about 18 km into the recorded legs. Next is Kalufi in Krekovi.
The Nevesinjsko polje is a broad, flat-floored basin high in the karst of eastern Herzegovina, ringed by bare limestone hills, and at Krekovi, near its edge, a group of stećci known as Kalufi stands in the grass. These medieval tombstones, carved between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries, belong to the transnational World Heritage Site inscribed in 2016. At Krekovi you find slabs, chests and gabled forms, some decorated with crosses, rosettes and borders, set in rows facing roughly east to west in the old tradition.
Read the complete Kalufi in Krekovi write-up.
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about 65 km into the recorded legs you reach Kalufi in Krekovi. Next is back through Čengića Bara.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Čengića Bara write-up.
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back through Čengića Bara, late in the day. Next is Gvozno.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Gvozno write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Gvozno. That is the ride.
Gvozno → Čengića Bara is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Čengića Bara → Kalufi in Krekovi is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Kalufi in Krekovi → back through Čengića Bara is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Čengića Bara → Gvozno is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.