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 Kalinovik it runs 527 km to Kalinovik; allow about 9 h 34 of riding. It goes by way of Borak in the village of Burati, Mramorje and back through Borak in the village of Burati. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,250 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It crosses from Bosnia & Herzegovina into Serbia - carry ID and check the toll rules.
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 Borak in the village of Burati.
Scattered across the meadows and forest edges of Bosnia and Herzegovina are thousands of carved medieval tombstones called stećci, great blocks of limestone shaped like chests, slabs or little gabled houses, some plain and some carved with spirals, vines, crescent moons, hunting scenes, dancers and raised hands. They date mostly from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries, and together with sites in Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia they were inscribed on the UNESCO list in 2016 as the Stećci Medieval Tombstone Graveyards. Borak, near the village of Burati in the hills above Rogatica, is one of these graveyards, a cluster of stones lying among the grass where they have stood for six hundred years or more.
Read the complete Borak in the village of Burati write-up.
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Borak in the village of Burati comes up about 117 km into the recorded legs. Next is Mramorje.
Standing stones in Serbia's western hills are not what most visitors expect, but the medieval necropolises called stećci are among the most remarkable monuments in the Balkans. They are big carved tombstones, shaped like chests, slabs or gabled roofs, made between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries across Bosnia, Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia, and decorated with spirals, crescents, hunting scenes and knights on horseback. UNESCO listed a selection of the sites in 2016, and Mramorje, in the municipality of Bajina Bašta, is the Serbian one. The word comes from the old Slavic for standing, and at Mramorje, among the grass and beech trees, the stones lean at slight angles, mossy and weathered.
Read the complete Mramorje write-up.
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about 259 km into the recorded legs you reach Mramorje. Next is back through Borak in the village of Burati.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Borak in the village of Burati write-up.
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back through Borak in the village of Burati, 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 → Borak in the village of Burati is 117 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Borak in the village of Burati → Mramorje is 142 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Mramorje → back through Borak in the village of Burati is 151 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Borak in the village of Burati → Gvozno is 117 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.