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 416 km round trip from Nevesinje - roughly 10 h 27 in the saddle. It goes by way of Čengića Bara, Dolovi in the village of Umoljani, Kučarin in Hrančići and back through Dolovi in the village of Umoljani. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,300 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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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Kalufi in Krekovi 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 47 km into the recorded legs. Next is Dolovi in the village of Umoljani.
Umoljani clings to the edge of the Bjelašnica massif above the Rakitnica canyon, an hour or so southwest of Sarajevo by road, and it is one of those mountain villages that feel a world away from the cities below. Stone houses with steep roofs, a small mosque and a scattering of shepherds' huts sit on a high green plateau, and nearby, at a spot known as Dolovi, a group of medieval tombstones called stećci lies in the grass. These carved limestone monuments, made between roughly the twelfth and sixteenth centuries, are found across Bosnia and neighbouring countries and were inscribed on the UNESCO list in 2016. Their reliefs of hunters, dancers, spirals and crescent moons are a fascinating window onto a culture that left few written records.
Read the complete Dolovi in the village of Umoljani write-up.
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about 104 km into the recorded legs you reach Dolovi in the village of Umoljani. Next is Kučarin in Hrančići.
Grey limestone slabs lie in the grass at Hrančići like a congregation that sat down six hundred years ago and never got up. These are stećci, the carved medieval tombstones that are found across Bosnia and Herzegovina and its neighbours, and the group at Kučarin is one of the sites included in the UNESCO listing of stećci graveyards in 2016. Some are plain chests, some are gabled like little houses, and a few carry reliefs of spirals, vines, shields or figures with raised hands that still nobody fully agrees how to read.
Read the complete Kučarin in Hrančići write-up.
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Kučarin in Hrančići, about halfway. Next is back through Dolovi in the village of Umoljani.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Dolovi in the village of Umoljani write-up.
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back through Dolovi in the village of Umoljani sits at 165 km, about halfway. Next is back through Čengića Bara.
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Read the complete Čengića Bara write-up.
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back through Čengića Bara comes up about 370 km into the recorded legs. Next is Kalufi in Krekovi.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Kalufi in Krekovi write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Kalufi in Krekovi closes the day.
Kalufi in Krekovi → Čengića Bara is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Čengića Bara → Dolovi in the village of Umoljani is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Dolovi in the village of Umoljani → Kučarin in Hrančići is 95 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Kučarin in Hrančići → back through Dolovi in the village of Umoljani is 109 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Dolovi in the village of Umoljani → back through Čengića Bara is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Čengića Bara → Kalufi in Krekovi is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.